Home
infertility
Life 20 years after unsuccessful infertility treatment
Catherine McDiarmid-Watt |
Friday, April 06, 2007 |
0
comments
BACKGROUND: This study explores the long-term experience of involuntary childlessness among 14 Swedish women 20 years after their infertility treatment.
METHODS: In-depth interviews were conducted.
RESULTS: The childlessness had had a strong impact on all the women’s lives and was for all a major life theme. The effects were experienced both on a personal level and on interpersonal and social levels. Half of the women were separated, and in all but one, sexual life was affected in negative and long-lasting ways. The effects of childlessness were especially increased at the time the study was conducted, as the women’s peer group was entering the ‘grandparent phase’. Many coped with their childlessness by caring for others, such as the children of friends or relatives, elderly parents or animals.
CONCLUSION: These findings represent a small sample, but they point towards the need for developing models of counselling and support that stimulate self-reflection and strengthen personal resources and empowerment for individuals and couples experiencing involuntary childlessness.
Full article: http://humrep.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/22/2/598
Category:
infertility
About Catherine: I am mom to three grown sons, two grandchildren and two rescue dogs. After years of raising my boys as a single mom, I remarried a wonderful man who had never had a child of his own. Unexpectedly, I found myself pregnant at 49!
Sadly we lost that precious baby at 8 weeks, and decided to try again. Five more losses, turned down for donor egg, foster care and adoption due to my age and losses - we have accepted that there will be no more babies in our house.
Find Catherine on Google+ - Circle us on Google+ - Join us on Facebook - Follow us on Twitter
WE LOVE COMMENTS!
Don't just sit there, reading this story or article - say something! Do you believe it? Do you think it is impossible? Do you wish it was you? Do you have a story to share (it might get published!)
NOTE: Comments are moderated - just to stop the spambots - and so may take up to a few hours to be approved.
Catherine reserves the right to review, edit, refuse or delete any comment.
Popular Posts
-
Can you lower your FSH? Can you improve your egg quality? Doctors will say you can't. Tour eggs are as old as you are, and nothing ...
-
Photo credit: Yvonne , by Duane J A woman who is over age 43 or 44 years old, will often be turned away from any chance at assisted repr...
-
Here's how I figured it out: In 2011, there were approximately 3.95 million births in the United States. Source In the United Stat...
-
Photo credit: Tea Cup , by Saxon ABSTRACT OBJECTIVES: The effect of caffeine consumption on fertility was examined prospectively in 210...
-
Found this on Women Over 40 With High FSH : TheFertilitycure.com -- I am sure many people here are very familiar with Randine Lewis...
-
Chlamydia, the sexually transmitted infection (STI) carried by one in ten sexually-active young British adults can make men infertile by da...
0 comments