Losing control

Losing control

Infertility means losing control of your reproductive future.  Infertile people often find themselves having to organise their bodies and their lives around a series of investigations and treatment cycles predetermined by a clinic; putting their sex lives and genital organs under scrutiny; being instructed when to have sex and when not to, and how and when to masturbate into a plastic jar; or having to submit to a government department investigation into their worthiness as parents (if they apply to adopt).  Infertile people experience this as an awful loss of control.  They sometimes become very angry, and may take this anger out on the closest target, which may not always be an appropriate one.

At FertilityNZ we acknowledge that it is very hard to see the people you love and care about go through such a hard time, but without friends and family like you to support those affected, the journey would be 100 times more difficult.