Infertility

Infertility: I wasn't infertile, but now I am! (633 words)
by hotcritic - written on 24.07.04 (Very useful, 261 readings)
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I know for most women, this is a taboo subject. Alot of women feel they have failed as a woman if they can't produce children! What a load of phooey, is what I say. Womans only job is to make children? ok, then what? what are we supposed to do when we have birthed our kids? Let them bring themselves up? Now I think you are getting my point. Many women cannot have children, and so adopt, foster ect,. You are doing the upbringing over the next eighteen years.That makes you as much a woman as having them yourselves! So why did I choose to adopt this attitude? Because I have both, given birth to my own children, and brought up somebody else's. ...

Happy Mothers Day Mummy (1299 words)
by Scooobydooo - written on 16.03.04 (Very useful, 129 readings)
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I have grown up with children always been around me and looking after them. Infact at one point when babysitting, I used to go on a 150 mile round trip as the request of the parents. So when I was getting older and in relationships, the natural thing was children. The relationships ended and it often made me think during the time I was in them, why did I not get pregnant. But then my career came up and I was into that and had no time for children. It would be one day, but not now... I loved my cousins kids and my god children who were always around at Aunty Karens.. The my career ended in 1996 and I moved and got married and we did not want to waste ...

Infertility: Hope (861 words)
by - written on 26.05.03
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Jeez, I had to think for a while there, try to come up with an intro to this 'opinion'. Y'know what though, I couldn't. Every time I started I got a feeling that it just wasn't right, that it might offend someone or be taken the wrong way, perhaps even that I might feel a bit sheepish about writing about this subject. Maybe that was because there's still a bit of a stigma attached to the whole subject of infertility - I get the feeling that it's still a very much brushed-under-the-carpet subject. And I should know, I've lived it for the past eight years or so. It has been a subject that I've tried to avoid where possible, y'know, ...