‘Bub bub,’ he said, looking at me, pointing with one chubby hand. ‘Bub bub,’ he said again — insistently but without any distress. They make one story become the only story.’If there is a single story of infertile women, its theme is isolation. In one famous 1993 study, the psychological symptoms of infertile women were compared to those of women diagnosed with other life-altering conditions; their stress levels were found to be equal to those of women living with cancer. Infertile women who are childless are at particular risk: a Danish metastudy found that female fertility-clinic patients were 47 per cent more likely to be hospitalized for schizophrenia over their lifetime than patients who eventually gave birth.

Source: thestar April 24, 2019 19:52 UTC