In a bid to help other women make informed decisions about their futures, TODAY presenter Lisa Wilkinson has discussed her own struggles with fertility and the multiple pregnancy losses she suffered after turning 40.
“I was lucky enough to be blessed with three healthy children in my 30s,” Wilkinson told TODAY co-host Karl Stefanovic and panellist David Campbell on Tuesday.
“I found out I was pregnant with my fourth child on my 40th birthday and at 11 weeks I started to bleed, went to the doctor and had that awful moment in the waiting room, in the room, while I was having an ultrasound and discovered that the baby had died at eight weeks.”
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“And all of the advice that I got was, well at that age, one in three pregnancies isn’t going to stick, you are going to lose it to a miscarriage. So we waited six months, we tried again. Exactly the same timeline. Lost that baby. Waited another six months and had it again.”
The 57-year-old said at that point, “I had that moment when doctors said to me, “Lisa, it looks like your eggs are too old”.”
It was then, Wilkinson said, she and husband Peter FitzSimons stopped trying for a fourth child.
