Fertility issues
I recently caught up with a very dear friend who has been having fertility treatment for nearly a decade. They have now reached the very sad conclusion that they will not have children and my heart really broke for them. Those last ten years were spent focusing on conceiving - they bought a lovely big house but never got around to doing it up - and now they and the house have seemingly ground to a halt. It is so awful to have your dreams torn from you and I think of the thousands of people who put so much of their hope, faith, trust and money into fertility treatments and let the rest of their lives almost dwindle away. By the time they have given up hope everything else that makes life exciting seems to be lack lustre. Isn’t it tragic that the world is filled with small children and babies who desperatly need good parents, and potentially wonderful parents who so yearn for a little one of their own - yet somehow they don’t always get to meet. We still believe that having our very own biological child is the optimum solution yet we should be more open to taking in those small souls who may not be biologically ours but who still could become a child of our heart. There is no easy solution in this emotionally-charged debate and one size certainly does not fit all. The repercussions of years of fruitless IVF have left so-many heart-broken people in their wake.