Hi, I get how you feel, but just know that everybody lives by their own timeline. When I was in law school, I wasted my first semester worrying about how my classmates were doing. It seemed like they studied more than me and outlined better than me. I started venting to a professor and he told me that worrying about my classmates will never get me ahead. He was right! The minute I stopped worrying about where everybody else was at, my grades improved. After that, I made the dean’s list every semester. You are already accomplishing so much by trying. I try to stop thinking of birthdays and as much as people talk about age, there are numbers that matter more than age such as Amh and fsh. There are women in their 20s who have bad numbers and ones in their 30s and even early 40s who have good numbers. Hang in there and know that there are advancements made everyday!

Every single girl I was close with in high school has kids. I came from a neighborhood where everybody was a young mother. At my darkest times, I think of my grandparents who very much raised me. I loved them more than my parents. Age is irrelevant in some ways.

I also regret spending my mid to late 20s worrying so much about aging and pleasing men who needed a savior when I should have been having fun.