I like celebrity infertility stories. I like the idea that the trials of being human surpass class and other barriers and torture our made up gods! I find it comforting that celebrities have had fertility challenges. Call it a need to connect, but thank you Jimmy Fallon and Sarah Jessica Parker for talking about not being able to have children without the help of science! It's been helpful.
Before we had these issues, I didn't think of infertility much (or at all). Perhaps a passing smirk directed towards articles about biological clocks and that bullshit. (By the way, a lot of that is bullshit.) But never a genuine pause to consider that I might someday face any challenges myself. Mainly a terror of getting pregnant at the wrong time by the wrong man (and thank God I didn't). Part of the reason is that it's really not spoken about openly. When I had a miscarriage my first urge was that I should tell people because it's so common and people should know. But that got tired pretty quickly. Not many people want to hear about your miscarriage. Fertility challenges are worse. I have never had the courage to mention it to any of the many strangers who ask me on a regular basis when I'll be having children. I wish I had it in me! Instead I politely say, "maybe one day." I need to be brave like Chrissy!
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November 2017
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