As a 46-year-old mother of a 23-year-old and a 19-year-old, Meredith accidentally became pregnant — while on birth control and with only one working ovary.
When Meredith Lynn Kramer was in her late teens, doctors told her she had very little chance of ever having a baby of her own. She had contracted, an infection of the reproductive organs that affects more than 1 million American women a year and that leaves one in ten patients infertile. As a result of the illness, Meredith had developed a lot of scar tissue that would make it very difficult to conceive a child.
After six years together, though, Meredith and her husband decided to divorce. By her account, he was a very good dad. He moved to Long Island and would come pick up the kids at their home in New Jersey every weekend. Though it was an amicable divorce, Meredith was heartbroken that she never got to say good-bye to her stepdaughter since the girl’s mother had curtailed her regular visits. She missed her terribly.
It was a good five years before she decided she was ready to date again. And it turned out that life had one more surprise for her. Jim was coming over that night, so we decided to do it together. We ran to the dollar store and got a pregnancy test.But the test was positive for pregnancy. I realized that I wanted to give Jim a baby, too. He was 48, and he had never had any kids. He’d been in long-term relationships, and he’d always wanted to have kids, but it never happened for him. I just wanted him to have the joy of being a dad. I wasn’t really thinking about how we were going to do it at the time.We decided to wait to tell everybody until the end of the first trimester to make sure I wasn’t going to miscarry.
I had so many doctor’s appointments because of my age, but I had zero geriatric pregnancy-related issues, like gestational diabetes or high blood pressure. I had one of those at-home Doppler heart monitors, and I used to check the baby’s heart rate all the time. I just had to make sure he was okay, even though I felt him moving. I may not have accepted 100 percent that this baby was happening to me, but I had this innate need to make sure he was okay.
After six months, we moved to Jim’s house permanently. It became too much to move all the baby stuff back and forth. My son stayed at my house and paid rent. We didn’t really do date nights after Eli was born either. Everyone in my family is too old to watch Eli. My older sister said, “I don’t know how you do it. I can’t even babysit him because it hurts my back.” Jim and I went to Wendy’s once by ourselves, and we sat in the parking lot and ate hamburgers while I was looking at shoes online for Eli. That was our “date.” And then I’m like, “We need to go home. I don’t know what Eli’s doing with your dad right now because he is really old.
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