Martha Stewart's daughter,
Alexis Stewart, 42, will appear on The Oprah Winfrey Show today talking
about her struggle with trying to get pregnant in her 40's. Alexis
is the host of the "Whatever" radio show She tells Oprah that she spends
up to $28,000 per month trying to conceive. Every month, on the
day after her period starts, she gets a blood test and an
ultrasound. She's checked for cysts. The doctors check the
lining of her uterus, and then she starts taking her medication.
She injects herself with fertility drugs daily.
She's tried ICSI - where they inject sperm
into her eggs. Alexis has tried three egg emplants. She goes
through the wishing, the hoping, the waiting, every single month.
"If I get too emotional about it, I'll be unhappy all the time or
freaked out all the time," she told O. "So I look at it as sort of
a chore...not about having a baby, but what I have to go through to
get there."
Here's a video clip of her miserable in the
hospital after an "egg retrieval," described as "fried and
nauseated." Alexis hosts a radio show on Sirius Satellite Radio
called "Whatever with Alexis and Jennifer." Her video clips from
the radio show include her "quarterly dose of Botox" injections.
Alexis is single, and is getting the sperm for her pregnancy attempts
through a sperm bank.
Um. Here's where I input
my opinion, and people get mad at me. But has this woman ever
stopped to consider that there could be a reason why she's not getting
pregnant other than "dry and crusty" eggs, as she tells Oprah?
(Sorry, TMI!) Perhaps she should concentrate less on surgical
vanity, sexual flings with listeners and cameramen, and trying to "poke
holes" in her eggs, and more on values. We like her stance on
animal rights and environmental causes, but that doesn't help a child
have a father figure or develop solid morals, does it?
Even the richest of the rich cannot buy a
miracle. All we can do is try to be deserving of one.
Martha Stewart's daughter,
Alexis Stewart, 42, will appear on The Oprah Winfrey Show today talking
about her struggle with trying to get pregnant in her 40's. Alexis
is the host of the "Whatever" radio show She tells Oprah that she spends
up to $28,000 per month trying to conceive. Every month, on the
day after her period starts, she gets a blood test and an
ultrasound. She's checked for cysts. The doctors check the
lining of her uterus, and then she starts taking her medication.
She injects herself with fertility drugs daily. 
