{"id":4986,"date":"2019-10-24T23:23:01","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T23:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/socamom.com\/w\/?p=4986"},"modified":"2021-01-12T20:23:11","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T02:23:11","slug":"intimate-conversation-infertility-dr-cindy-duke-black-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/socamom.com\/w\/intimate-conversation-infertility-dr-cindy-duke-black-women\/","title":{"rendered":"An Intimate Conversation about Fertility with Dr. Cindy Duke"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The story goes that I was my mom’s fourth pregnancy. She was thirty-one years old and said she thought she had the flu. Her OB\/GYN, who was also her professor at Howard University School of Medicine, told her that her flu would be here in nine months. He also told her that he had no idea where I could have implanted and how I could have survived in her womb, given the number and size of her fibroids. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My mother and I – She was still in her residency at Johns Hopkins<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Even though my mother was very open about her fibroids and pregnancy losses, I never really thought about my fertility until my miscarriage, which happened after I had already had three healthy children. I had my first child at twenty-three, and my last at thirty. My last pregnancy was at thirty-four.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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