Hi @"Janet A" .... after marrying at 35, I was on the pill for quite a few years, then when I went off it, I just never got pregnant (probably because I was heading towards early menopause at 45?)
To be honest,I wasn't too upset about it, as I'd never really expected to have children anyway (and was a bit set in my ways) and hubby was older than me by 15 years. He already had 2 adult step-children & wasn't too keen to have babies at 50.
I always reckoned that my brothers & sister had already 'made up' for me - as two of them had 4 x children each & the other had just the one child.
A girlfriend, when quizzed as to why she didn't have children always said that she had 'bunchytop'! When asked what that was - she replied - "You Know - it is when Bananas can't have Little Bananas!!" That usually floored them & shut them up! LOL She went on to have 2 daughters.
I can only imagine what women who really wanted children (but couldn't) have had to go thru tho. My brother & his wife with the one child went thru numerous miscarriages prior to their one & only successful birth - after announcing the first one & losing it - they stopped telling people every other time they got pregnant, as they were never sure if it would be a viable pregnancy. :(
