Grandma pregnant at 50

Fier • USAF Veteran, wife of 16 yrs, mom to 3 kids and two angel babies

Too all the ladies over 40+ here's a hope(a light at the end of the tunnel)story I found.

When Michele Hall of Naples, Florida, was told she'd officially entered menopause last year, she assumed she could no longer get pregnant. At the time, the news didn't shock her -- after all, at 50 years old, she had already welcomed four kids of her own and two grandkids.

But the news that came just a few months later -- that she was pregnant and having a baby boy -- was another story entirely.

According to Naples Daily News, Michele says she was shocked by the news, and wondered how she could have missed the signs.

The outlet reports that she didn't experience any of the usual telltale pregnancy symptoms, like morning sickness or weight gain, which would have tipped her off. And while there were some aches and pains that came and went, she had chalked them up to either menopause or the side effects of lupus, which she's been managing for the last 10 years.

It wasn't until a sneaking suspicion caused Michele to pick up a pregnancy test that the mom-to-be learned her symptoms were from something else entirely.

Once a doctor confirmed the news, Michele and her husband Jerry, 47, suddenly had just two months to prepare for the birth of their son.

Can you imagine discovering that you're 26 weeks pregnant, and barely having two months to prepare? Add in the fact that you totally thought you were done having kids over a decade ago and, well, let's just say there are a whole lot of emotions you're probably gonna need to process.

Michele told Naples Daily News that after the initial shock wore off, she was overcome with fear and anxiety for the future. Between her age and her lupus, she was automatically categorized as a high-risk, "geriatric" pregnancy, and was scheduled for a C-section.