A Contextual Caveat
I fully understand no one cares about the infertility or miscarriages of others, unless maybe it involves your best friend or sister or something similar. It’s also a tricky issue because you can’t really “help” per se, as offering to donate sperm/eggs to your friend at work is probably a generalized social overreach, and you end up pretty much saying “I’m praying for you!” and then going back to doing whatever you were doing before, which typically involves some version of telling everyone else how busy you are with your kids, thus further making the infertility/miscarriage person/people feel bad, as if the only thing anyone is supposed to do in adulthood is shepherd their kids around. I dunno. It’s an interesting little arc. However, my specific triggers are not your problem, and I understand that. I write stuff about infertility because other people find it and message me that some of it was helpful. That’s all.
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