الثلاثاء، 13 يناير 2015

I thought having a baby when I was 'ready' would be easy. I was wrong | Monica Fike

I’ve tried yoga, meditation and pills to grapple with infertility. The biggest challenge is feeling betrayed by my own body


After spending most of my younger life, particularly my 20s, drunkenly barhopping and blissfully kissing my way through Manhattan, I thought I would easily be able to conceive a child when I was ready. Like a lot of women, I spent many of those years being terrified that it would be too easy to conceive one when I wasn’t ready.


I stopped taking birth control pills about a year or so before Billy and I got married because a friend convinced me that they were terrible for my body, and I finally felt like it wouldn’t be more terrible to be pregnant. We’ll be celebrating our second anniversary in April, he’ll turns 36 in a few weeks and I’ll be right behind him in September. I am ready, waiting and practically dying to be pregnant.


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