What is infertility? I mean, what conditions apply before we consider ourselves ‘infertile’? And what about the idea that ‘once an infertile, always an infertile?’.
My POV is that if you have got pregnant by having sex, (clearly using your own eggs and your own uterus) and given birth to a live baby, with another one on the way, you are NOT infertile.
I am running with the dictionary definition: infertile |inˈfərtl|adjective(of a person, animal, or plant) unable to reproduce.
You may have had a lengthy time and terrible trouble getting and staying pregnant, but you are not, now, infertile. To me, anyway. This doesn’t mean I don’t respect the fact that you had trouble, or that you will carry feelings associated with infertility for some time to come, maybe forever. But neither of those things mean you are, in the present moment, babe-in-arms-and womb, unable to reproduce.
I know there are people out there who disagree. I am not trying to change your mind. I am interested in hearing your arguments.
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