SELF article about infertility

mdm2137

I know Lindsay.Lou linked this SELF article before but I just got around to reading it in my own issue. It was about how women keep infertility a secret. The whole article was great, but two parts of it I really liked were:

"Having difficulty getting pregnant can cause as much grief as losing a loved one. But it's different. It's chronic and elusive. There's a fear that life will be eternally empty. Some feel a sense of damage and brokenness; it goes to the heart of who they are."

"A study from Harvard shows that women who have difficulty getting pregnant can be as depressed as those who have major heart problems or cancer."

I wish I could copy it and make everyone in my life read it.

butterfly843

I agree, I thought the article was great. I was thinking of making copies of it and keeping it in my purse. Next time someone says something dumb I would give them a copy of it.

michrocc

Wow.  Really powerful stuff.  I need to find that article.

 

 

babes12

Wow that quote describes how i'm feeling today. 

I know i should feel lucky that i have one perfectly healthy little boy but it doesn't make me feel any better about wanting another child.  i still feel the strong desire/need to have another baby, maybe it's b/c i'm supposed to have Wyatt here w/ me now and he was taken from me.  i'm not sure but i wonder if i'm causing my own infertility b/c i want another child so badly.  ugh.  constant struggle.

kew243

That's how I felt too!  I actually sent it to my mom, I don't know if she read it though.

Olive44

I thought that was a great article!  Definitely worth the read.