Some women are unable to conceive. Sarah and her husband tried for years to have a baby, but to Sarah’s eternal disappointment, she was unable to get pregnant. It was the same for Cosette. She and her husband went to fertility doctors for help, with no result. Read more
Archive for Relationship
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Dec 2011
When You Cannot Have One Part (4)
01
Dec 2011
When You Cannot Have One Part (3)
When they met, he already had four children from his first marriage. He had absolutely no desire to have any more and told Cheryl that upfront. “Deciding not to have a baby of my own was intellectually easier than coming to terms with it emotionally. That was the hardest part for me. I had to mourn that I wasn’t going to have a child of my own. I had to express that loss.” Read more
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Nov 2011
When You Cannot Have One Part (2)
Early on she had decided that if she wasn’t married and pregnant by age 35, she wasn’t going to have a baby. “I went through a natural grieving process knowing that I was probably not going to have biological children,” she says. Read more
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Nov 2011
When You Cannot Have One
If you met your husband after you’ve already made the decision not to have a baby, don’t be surprised if you still feel grief or resentment about it later on. Before Mary met Pat and his five children, she was divorced from another man with whom she did not have any kids. “I never really had the burning desire to have children, like some people. Read more
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Nov 2011
He’s Had a Vasectomy
Every year more than 500,000 men have a vasectomy. (That means he’s had surgery so there’s no sperm in his ejaculate.) This does tend to complicate things if you want to have a baby together. A vasectomy reversal surgery is clearly not as easy as foregoing a condom or discontinuing the pill. Read more