She’s a first-time mom at age 50: Woman says, ‘It’s really, really, really surreal’

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A North Carolina woman took her first step into motherhood at the age of 50. She gave birth to a daughter in September, reports say.

According to a report by Good Morning America, Susie and Tony Troxler had much to be thankful for this Thanksgiving. They celebrated it for the first time as parents. Susie, age 50, had been trying to get pregnant ever since the couple married 13 years ago. But now, after more than a decade of being unable to conceive naturally, on Sept. 29, 2021, Susie gave birth to Lily Antonia Troxler.

Susie Troxler, a psychologist in High Point, North Carolina, said of giving birth to her daughter at age 50: “It’s really, really, really surreal.” She added, “I’d been unmarried, I’d been a wife and now the idea of being a mommy, it still hasn’t sunk in I don’t think,” GMA cited.

While it took more than a decade for her and her husband Tony, age 61, to experience the “dream of parenthood, Susie Troxler said “it was never a question of if, but when she would become a mother, Fox 5 News reported.

After unsuccessful attempts at natural conception, which was attributed partially to uterine fibroids that were eventually removed in January 2019, the report said that about two years ago the couple explored other options.

A fertility specialist pointed out that Troxler’s age would make it difficult to carry a pregnancy to term. After the couple unsuccessfully tried in-vitro fertilization, they eventually turned to egg donation, the news outlet reported.

With two viable embryos, the process began, but the first embryo transfer was unsuccessful. After a pause, when COVID-19 forced many fertility clinics to suspend operations, Troxler said Carolinas Fertility Institute resumed normal operations in early 2021. The second embryo transfer performed on Feb. 1 was successful, Fox 5 noted.

A Twitter post by Cone Health, cited Susie Troxler who said “Everything had come together for that moment to happen... we’re no longer just husband and wife, we’re ‘mommy’ and ‘daddy.’”

Troxler told Fox 5 News that she had “a really blessed pregnancy” despite being at high risk because of her age.

“We wouldn’t give up,” Tony Troxler added. “We had that faith. We dreamed of her. We knew no matter how it was going to happen, that it was going to happen.”

USA Today cited Tony Troxler who said he’s still trying to “wrap his head around being a father.”

“Even now I find myself just staring at her,” he said. “Before she was born, she had me wrapped around her pinky finger.”

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