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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP and all the other women here: one of the shittiest aspects of infertility is that we as women -- gay or straight -- have to confront our aging process in a way that other women don't have to, at least immediately. It's pretty awful, considering how much our society values youth.

Just remember, everyone: what has happened to you is terrible, often a mix of bad luck and timing and genetics. But the bad things that have happened don't define us. We have the capacity to set aside this posture of victim hood and be kind to everyone who is suffering from their inability to have the family they want, no matter the reason.

*stepping off soapbox now*[/quote]

The worst aspect is not being able to have kids, no matter what age (and some people face it in their 20s).  It's not aweful to age, it's a natural process. Everybody ages and then dies. Don't bundle IF with the youth obsession, not the same thing at all.

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Yeah I never said aging was "the worst," only that it's  often an unexpectedly uncomfortable thing to have to confront in the midst of IVF. Nor did I say it is awful. I like my wrinkles! Just that in a youth-obsessed culture it can be jarring for some women. And As the OP said in her own words: "I still cannot wrap my mind around how I developed premature ovarian failure after getting pregnant on the second try with my child and starting TTC when #1 turned a year old). It makes no sense to me that I could be super fertile just a year and a half before I learned I had premature ovarian failure, but I understand that it can happen."[/quote]

Shittiest. You said shittiest, and I was trying not to stoop to that sort of language. K?[/quote]

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