A former CNN Correspondent and author, Isha Sesay, has shared her personal life encounter, revealing that she is single and pregnant.
The award-winning journalist and author disclosed this vital news on the microblogging platform – Twitter – on Wednesday.
Sesay said she is expecting her first child at the age of 46.
The post read: “I have some major news to share with you… I’M PREGNANT.”
The British journalist of Sierra Leonian descent shared her pregnancy journey in a touching piece published on Today.com.
Sesay said she never believed at 46 she would be “divorced, single, and having a baby on her own.”
Sesay, who also shared her fears of raising her baby as a single mother, revealed that it took her three IVF attempts before she successfully got pregnant.
She further noted: “If you’d told the 16-year-old me that at 46, I’d be divorced, single and having a baby on my own — by choice! — I’d have shuddered and firmly said “no!” Back then, I had very definite ideas about the future course my personal life would take, and it didn’t look like this. I imagined something way more straightforward and dare I say it, conventional.
“My first IVF attempt was unsuccessful, and I cried for days afterwards, before I could find the strength to start the process all over again a few months later.
“But with each passing day, I grew more fearful and anxious about my chances of being able to successfully carry a child.
“Those feelings only intensified when my doctor decided to halt my second attempt mid-cycle because my body was responding negatively to the medication.”
“With two failed attempts to my name, I approached my third embryo transfer with relatively low expectations. In the two weeks that followed the procedure, my mind raced uncontrollably and I battled the urge to take an early pregnancy test.
“The day before I was scheduled to return to the clinic, I finally caved in and bought a home test because I couldn’t bear a repeat of the hours-long wait before the clinic called with the results.
“The next morning I got up long before the sun was up, anxiously headed to my bathroom and opened the box. The minutes ticked by and I cycled through a myriad of emotions. When the word “pregnant” flashed up on the tiny screen, I screamed and fell to my knees before bursting into tears,” she added.
She said: “A brief marriage to a kind man didn’t result in children, and then the year I turned 40, my mum had a catastrophic stroke, leaving me no emotional space to contemplate anything other than caring for her. Six years later, I tried relationships again, but it didn’t work out.
“It was then, in the aftermath of our inevitable breakup, that it hit me: Not having a child would be the greatest regret of my life. And with my biological clock ticking down, if I was waiting for the right man to come along before I did it, well, I might just find myself out of time.”