Mags is coming to the realisation that she might never have another child

Mags is coming to the realisation that she might never have another child

Mags is slowly coming to the realisation that she may never have another child, as she's getting older, and is wondering if other women experience the same realities.

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Thabile Mashaba

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Upon looking through her storage, Mags saw her son's old linen and mosquito nets perfectly sealed and wrapped. She had kept them in the hopes of having another baby one day. But now that she's 40, she has realised that she may not be able to have another child.

"There's such a deep sense of failure in this for me, that feeling of closing that chapter and having to accept this reality is hard," says Mags. 

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Are you in a similar situation, how have you dealt with that? How do you cope, and how are you feeling?

Is it purely about not having another child or is it the 'failure' aspect?

How do other women in KZN cope with similar realisations?

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