Very, very curious about how you feel about this article in today’s Guardian in which Nicholas Blincoe wonders why people try to conceive spend so much time whining (his words, not mine):
Is this nuts? How can you mourn for something that has never existed? The very notion seems an insult to anyone who has ever mourned a real dead child. It speaks of a bizarre sense of entitlement: the idea that “anything I can imagine, I should have!” Worse, it suggests that biology is destiny in a way that makes a mockery of free-will and seems reminiscent of strains of …read more

Most of the time education in middle school, if you are lucky enough to have sex education, focuses on NOT getting pregnant. Rarely does it broach the subject of infertility. Unless, of course, a certain woman’s infertility or secondary infertility quite possibly changes the course of history.
An article in yesterday’s Guardian thinks that should change.
Back in January, I wrote about my experiences with sex ed, the Catholic school edition:
Worse than any venereal disease, more terrible than any other trouble you could get yourself in, if you were sexually active (and by active, I mean even thought about doing it with …read more