While some are made to believe that menopause should be something to dread, there are likely some women who actually look forward to it since they don’t have to worry about getting pregnant anymore.
But that might not be 100 percent true. At least it wasn’t for 47-year-old Tess Morten.
Tess struggled to conceive for years and went through three failed in vitro fertilization cycles before she surprisingly got pregnant seven years after going through menopause.
Posted by Tess Morten onThursday, June 15, 2017
Tess found out that she was pregnant after she started complaining of feeling bloated, sick, and tired for a few months.
She never suspected that it was a pregnancy since she went through menopause seven years prior and had three unsuccessful cycles of IVF.
She and her doctors expected it might be ovarian cancer and prepared for the worse when she went for a scan.
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Tess had absolutely no idea that she should be preparing for her dreams to come true.
“The hospital doctor was looking at the monitor as he rolled the scanner over my stomach and said, ‘Your ovaries are fine but look at this,'” she recalls. “I looked at the screen and could see a baby. I said, ‘Is this mine?’”
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Tess had quite the reaction when she learned that it was.
“The nurse was holding my hand because I was scared it was bad news. I cried because I never thought it would happen to me.”
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She sure had a lot to tell her husband Neil, 52, who was at home with their three foster children.
And he couldn’t have been happier.
“Neil was worried because I hadn’t phoned. He saw me smirking as I pulled into the drive and came to the door,” Tess recalls.
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“I whispered, ‘It’s not cancer, it’s a baby in my tummy.’ He was mouthing swear words. He was over the moon.”
The couple went to the hospital the next day where they received a second scan that showed their baby daughter sucking her thumb.
“We were blown away. Then we went through all the worry of the scary tests because I wasn’t meant to be pregnant. But luckily everything came back OK.”
Posted by Tess Morten onTuesday, November 3, 2015
Their daughter Molly was born healthy at 7lb and 14 oz.
“When we knew she was a girl I wanted to call her Molly,” Neil said. “Tess looked its meaning up on the internet and it means ‘miracle’.”
Tess and Neil had been trying to get pregnant since their honeymoon but couldn’t conceive prior to Molly being born.
Posted by Tess Morten onMonday, September 30, 2013
“I was supposed to come back from Jamaica pregnant. That was the plan. I knew Neil would be a great dad. But I couldn’t conceive and the following years were very difficult for us. Our marriage suffered.”
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Tess ended up receiving hormone replacements in November 2015 to help ease her hot flashes from menopause and doctors believe this is what started her ovulation process and got her pregnant.
Tess says that she feels that she has been blessed.
Learn more about “Miracle Molly’s” story in the video below.
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