Even though you've passed your most fertile years, many older couples have found success with treatments and you should not let
your fears about getting pregnant eclipse the family planning journey.
Not exact matches
to observations of their own mother's or sister's fertility to some residual
fears about how easy it was to
get pregnant as an adolescent.
However, many mothers are wary
about getting pregnant again because of the
fear that it will happen again or because of guilt they feel that they are trying to replace the baby who died.
When I
got pregnant again, when my son was
about 15 months old, I was overwhelmed with
fear.
I wouldn't, however, approach a
pregnant woman and ask her any personal details
about her breasts or reproductive organs or most personal thoughts, hopes, and
fears about childbirth unless I would feel comfortable
getting to that level of discussion with her if she was not currently with child.
Drawing on findings from other studies, the researchers suggest that possible reasons for the inequalities between those who did and did not seek help for infertility include not understanding or acknowledging that a problem exists,
fear of being labelled infertile, concerns
about the cost of treatment, the physical and psychological burden of treatment, or simply not wanting to
get pregnant.
That's my actual number one
fear, because I do have carpal tunnel that I
got from... it
got more pronounced when I was
pregnant with my son, but I have a
fear about that.