Whether your first child came easily, you struggled to conceive, or experienced pregnancy loss, this is a place to discuss the hurdles that come with secondary infertility.
Secondary infertility refers to the inability to become pregnant, or to carry a pregnancy to term, following the birth of one or more biological children.
Some guidelines to consider while you're here, borrowed from our sister community, /r/infertility:
Infertility is stressful, and treatment is jam-packed with crazy-making hormones. Sometimes it's easier to step on peoples' toes than you would expect. Please consider the probable emotional state of other members before taking offense or causing it.
Infertility is isolating, but here we can come together with the only other people in the world who really understand what we're going through. For that reason, you'll find that members often vent the jealousy and bitterness that is unacceptable anywhere else. Most of us can understand and empathize, but if you can't, don't bother trying to change it. It is what it is.
Infertility is not cute. Not at all. It is also necessarily full of a shit-ton of medical acronyms. For these reasons, many members find cutesy acronyms to be needlessly confusing and sometimes offensive. Baby dancing is this but we have sex (or more often endure painful medical procedures) to try to reproduce. Use cutesy acronyms at your own risk.
Infertility sucks. There will be cursing.
So, feel free to vent, but be kind to others; infertility is complicated and often very painful.
Everyone is welcome here. You don't have to be experiencing secondary infertility to post pictures, questions, or articles.
Related subreddits:
/r/infertility
/r/InfertilityBabies
/r/TryingForABaby
/r/ttcafterloss
