Fertility treatments

[chickensmommy]

What do you think about women that have to use fertility treatments to concieve? Do you consider infertility to be a disease?

[Pink_Sunshine]

I did.  I don't care what anyone thinks about what I did. Only people that haven't gone through it truly will never understand. It's easy to judge when you've never had Fertility issues. (general you)

[xxBiteMExx]

I have to use fertility treatments to conceive... And it sucks. It's very depressing when you want a child so bad but can't Get pregnant. I know a lot of women don't find it to be a disease though.

[Pink_Sunshine]

Thankfully I do know what it's like to conceive naturally but yeah..having to work at something that should come natural is very hard to deal with or I should say was.

[cnm5381no2]

I don't call it a disease it's not an illness or something you will die from. But it is a female problem, issue, condition. I think fertility should be covered under private medical insurance myself.

[Mipsy]

Not being able to conceive specifically, no you won't die from it. But you can from some underlying causes if not treated properly and taken care of.

Quoting cnm5381no2:

I don't call it a disease it's not an illness or something you will die from. But it is a female problem, issue, condition. I think fertility should be covered under private medical insurance myself.

[tennisgal]

I don't think less of them although as a woman who has suffered many miscarriages (conception isn't our problem) I am almost ashamed of it. I don't willingly share the info and I try to skirt around it as much as possible. I feel like as a woman it's one thing that is God-given, there should be no effort involved (and for our first three there wasn't). 

However, we are Catholic and as such, are urged not to use superfluous means of conception (iui, ivf) but DH and I seeing a perinatologist right now for my recurrent miscarriages after three perfectly healthy pregnancies and are getting to the point where we have to decide what procedures fall under the category of health-related and what procedures would be considered superfluous. 

[heidimoose134]

It matters not to me how other women choose to try and conceive if they are facing fertility issues. 

Myself, I would probably just opt to adopt and save myself the heartbreak and aggravation of repeated attempts. But that's easy for me to say because I doubt I will ever have to experience that..

[chickensmommy]

I'm Catholic and my priest is fine with us doing IUI with donor sperm

Quoting tennisgal:

I don't think less of them although as a woman who has suffered many miscarriages (conception isn't our problem) I am almost ashamed of it. I don't willingly share the info and I try to skirt around it as much as possible. I feel like as a woman it's one thing that is God-given, there should be no effort involved (and for our first three there wasn't). 

However, we are Catholic and as such, are urged not to use superfluous means of conception (iui, ivf) but DH and I seeing a perinatologist right now for my recurrent miscarriages after three perfectly healthy pregnancies and are getting to the point where we have to decide what procedures fall under the category of health-related and what procedures would be considered superfluous. 

[tennisgal]

Really?! Is he a younger priest??

Quoting chickensmommy:

I'm Catholic and my priest is fine with us doing IUI with donor sperm

Quoting tennisgal:

I don't think less of them although as a woman who has suffered many miscarriages (conception isn't our problem) I am almost ashamed of it. I don't willingly share the info and I try to skirt around it as much as possible. I feel like as a woman it's one thing that is God-given, there should be no effort involved (and for our first three there wasn't). 

However, we are Catholic and as such, are urged not to use superfluous means of conception (iui, ivf) but DH and I seeing a perinatologist right now for my recurrent miscarriages after three perfectly healthy pregnancies and are getting to the point where we have to decide what procedures fall under the category of health-related and what procedures would be considered superfluous. 

[chickensmommy]

No... He's 63. And our counselor from our fertility clinic is a former Catholic priest as well!

Quoting tennisgal:

Really?! Is he a younger priest??

Quoting chickensmommy:

I'm Catholic and my priest is fine with us doing IUI with donor sperm

Quoting tennisgal:

I don't think less of them although as a woman who has suffered many miscarriages (conception isn't our problem) I am almost ashamed of it. I don't willingly share the info and I try to skirt around it as much as possible. I feel like as a woman it's one thing that is God-given, there should be no effort involved (and for our first three there wasn't). 

However, we are Catholic and as such, are urged not to use superfluous means of conception (iui, ivf) but DH and I seeing a perinatologist right now for my recurrent miscarriages after three perfectly healthy pregnancies and are getting to the point where we have to decide what procedures fall under the category of health-related and what procedures would be considered superfluous.