My Infertility Story
Every time a delivery arrive s at your door in the mail, there is about an 11% chance that the item will be defective or broken. What you choose to do with the item goes into 3 categories: repairable, returnable, or refundable. What you don’t know is whether the item was broken from the manufacturing process or something happened to it along the way. Regardless of the reason, it wasn’t what you expected when it arrived. Apply this to people: imperfect, broken, defective people. According to the CDC, 12% of people in this country struggle with the ability to get pregnant or carry a pregnancy to term. That number is equal to 1/8 couples, or about 7.8 million people. For even more numbers, there is about 1/3 of this attributed to male factor, 1/3 attributed to female factor, and a little less than 1/3 is a combination. Take that last category, and about 5% of the infertile population is labeled as “unexplained infertility”. (I like facts and statistics). Now t...
