I've just read a great piece on The Guardian on secondary infertility by the author Maggie O'Farrell.
People who have no personal experience of infertility don't understand how it feels, but there is a generally sympathetic attitude towards those who are involuntarily childless. Not being able to have a second, or third, child doesn't get the same reaction. People tend to assume you should be grateful for what you have - and even GPs are sometimes surprisingly ignorant about secondary infertility, not taking it sufficiently seriously soon enough.
Maggie O'Farrell's moving article points out that secondary infertility can be just as hard to cope with - and I loved her ending - read it and see...
No comments:
Post a Comment