I'll Never Be a Mom

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4.6 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Malika's husband wants to stop trying to conceive, leaving her depressed about her unfulfilled dream of being a mom. Searching for advice? Call 1-800-DR-LAURA / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment at DrLaura.com

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0:00.0	Thanks for downloading my call of the day podcast. You too can participate in my live radio program
0:06.8	heard weekdays from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern time on Sirius XM Triumph 1111.
0:12.4	Malika.
0:14.0	Welcome to the program.
0:16.0	Hi, Dr Laura, how are you?
0:18.0	Good, what can I do for you?
0:21.0	I am at a crossroads in my life. I'm 40 years old. I've been married for seven years.
0:26.7	This year would bake it and June would make it eight years. For six of those years I've been trying,
0:32.3	me and my husband have been trying to have a baby.
0:35.0	He has two kids from a previous marriage and he had a vasectomy in that marriage and so we you know we try to get it reversed and it didn't really work out and so I did IVF for probably the last five years five rounds rounds of that, had a couple miscarriages.
0:56.4	And so we don't have any living children and this year when it started my husband said,
1:02.3	you know, I'm getting older he's he's going to
1:05.1	be 48 and he said he just wanted to switch his life over to just thinking about
1:10.0	retirement and you know he just basically didn't want to have any more kids and for
1:16.1	me personally I feel like I still have time.
1:20.1	Ma'am slow down.
1:21.1	Yeah.
1:22.1	Sorry. First of all, you're 40.
1:24.0	You should be done in your mind.
1:26.0	You really have to let that go.
1:30.0	Sorry.
1:31.0	But the no always wins.
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