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Infertility
yogisunam
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IF, Adoption Study
yogisunam
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in Infertility
There's a study that's been posted on here before. Can someone post the link?
Someone's done gone and pissed me off on Facebook and needs an education.
(yes, I know deep breaths. I'll wait a bit before I strike, I mean, write back)
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Re: IF, Adoption Study
Now you've peaked my interest!
Sorry you're having to deal with insensitive idiots (at least that's the feeling I'm getting...)
Was it this?
https://encyclopedia.adoption.com/entry/pregnancy-after-adoption/285/1.html
"Although the majority of adoptive parents do not have a biological child subsequent to an adoption, virtually every new adoptive parent has heard about a person with this experience. It is unknown how many adoptive mothers become pregnant after adopting but probably well less than 10% have biological children after they adopt a child. In many cases, the pregnancy is unplanned because the mother presumed she was infertile.
In an extensive study performed by Michael Bohman, he found 8% of the adoptive parents ultimately had a biological child. According to Bohman, 8% of the infertile couples who had applied to the agency and then withdrew before adopting also later had biological children. Bohman discussed other studies, which indicate postadoptive pregnancies at a rate of about 3% to 10%.
The act of adopting a child cannot erase a woman's or man's infertility problem, and individuals who suggest adoption as a psychological "cure" to infertility are sadly misled. What is likely to happen in those instances is that infertility caused by unknown factors was somehow diminished. Since about 20% of infertile couples have "unexplained infertility" for their diagnosis, this is likely to account for such a phenomenon."
GL and kick butt!
I am a runner, knitter, scientist, DE-IVF veteran, and stage III colon cancer survivor.
It's a girl from my yoga teacher training who has started a health and yoga consultation biz and is always posting links to tidbits she finds. She posted one about fertility and, well, a couple of the comments that generated were the typical "stop thinking about it", "notice how many people who adopt end up pg" and then some bashing about how many fertility clinics that have popped up.
I pm'd her since I don't want my IF issues spouted all over the FB world. Nothing mean, just shared with her my journey (I m/c'd while in my teach. train.) and let it be known that the comments were a gross oversimplification of the infertility and posted the link.
I am a runner, knitter, scientist, DE-IVF veteran, and stage III colon cancer survivor.
She took the link down. She also responded very nicely as well.
It wasn't so much the link...hell, everyone has a solution to IF, but the comments it generated. I didn't ask her, too. Just wanted to share how it affected me.