Conception
Stories
'You
Vill Never Be in Zee Family Vay.'
Eighty-five
year old Sylvia F.* of Manchester
still feels the pain after so many years. "I'd been married for a couple
of years, but with no bun in the oven to show for it. So I go to a doctor, she
was German, and she examines me and says, 'You vill never be in zee family
vay.'"
My
husband, he should rest in peace, told me not to listen to her, that if I'd
just stop worrying, I'd get pregnant, no problem. And, what do you know? He was
right. I ended up having four beautiful children. And in those days, they
didn't have all these fancy treatments like they have today.
"The
thing is, my periods were never regular. I'd stop bleeding, and a couple days
later, it would start up again. It got to the point where my husband thought I
was doing it on purpose; bleeding to keep him out of my bed," says Sylvia
with a wicked grin. "I told him he was right."
Arlene L.* of London, now in her early sixties, tells a similar story. "I was in my early
thirties with a little baby boy and I really wanted to have more children. I
had a boy, I wanted a girl. But, for some reason, though I conceived and
carried to term with no problem the first time, I couldn't seem to get
pregnant. Most of the mothers I'd been pregnant with the first time around were
on their second pregnancies, but I couldn't seem to follow suit. With the help
of fertility pills I finally managed to conceive, but I miscarried a few times.
Then I conceived again, this time giving birth to a still born baby in my
eighth month. The hospital was full up and there was no room for me. I labored
in the hallway on a makeshift bed of orange crates, knowing that I was giving
birth to a dead baby. I was devastated."
'I
Can Get Pregnant Any Time I Want.'
"I
did go on to have two more children: a girl and a boy, but I never forgot one
very painful statement from someone who was supposed to be my friend, someone
who'd been pregnant with me with that first, perfect pregnancy. She said to me,
and this was after the stillborn baby, 'I can get pregnant any time I want.'
Why would she say something so unkind? I was never able to think of her with
any affection after that."
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