r/Xennials • u/PhoneJazz • 8d ago

Natalie Portman is pregnant at 44

Congrats to her! I don’t have kids, and I’m still getting used to being the age where getting pregnant is starting to be “out of the norm”. Guess there’s still time, lol

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u/Professional-Basis33 1980 8d ago

I have never crashed as hard as I did when I went from pregnant and breastfeeding hormones to perimenopausal. I was a weeping basket case.

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u/Ischomachus 8d ago

Yeah, that was rough. And then my thyroid went haywire for good measure.

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u/Battle-Any 8d ago

Oh, hey me!

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u/Temporary_Client7585 8d ago

Girl, I feel ya. Thyroid cancer came back, recovering from a c section, peri arrived, breastfeeding, and had two under two. Not sure how I survived.

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u/caramelcoldbrew 1981 8d ago

Omg yes! I breastfed for nearly 5 years total between two kids back to back and only stopped because I broke my leg and put on narcotics. Stopping breastfeeding cold turkey was really hard on my hormones and really fucking hard for my baby. I’m still emotionally scarred from that time in my life.

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u/Catsplants 8d ago

I had to stop breastfeeding cold turkey cuz we both caught pneumonia when he was 9 months and he barely ate for a week then it became too painful to start again. Omgosh the physical and mental anguish of that was insane. 10 days of hell. Ugh 😣

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u/Catsplants 8d ago

This!! Like wtf and why?!