The "Octomom"......

The buzz on this "octomom" is getting old!  It just isn't fair how she makes people think that infertility treatments always end up in such a high mulitiple pregnancy.  Remember that she CAN in fact have children, and she CHOSE to have that many implanted, it wasn't the treatment in itself, it was her personal choice to use all of those embryos knowing that she very well could have all of them stick.  That is nothing like actual infertility treatments.

I think that they have disgraced infertility treatments. Every time I tell someone about my struggles and the fact that I am taking Clomid I get these horrible looks. Then they have the nerve to say "well I hope you don't end up like octomom." REALLY?? Oooo I just want to slap ppl. I think she did it for fame anyways, just seems like she gets to much of a high from being viewed by the public. As for the Duggers. That just isn't right. It is fine if you want to have a big family, it is great if you want to follow your religion, but really. There comes a time when you really need to cut the cord, litterally, and let it go. 19 kids, that is totally unfair to the children. The older kids have to raise the younger ones, every child needs moments/special times with their parents and those children will never have that. They wont get woken up on a saturday morning being tickled because they have to many kids to get up. I just think it is being selfish to follow their religion to that extreme.


I really think we should start our own TV show about women trying to conceive. Show our struggles, heartaches, and pain. Maybe they would see that there are two totally different types of infertility treatments. There are "fertility treatments" for ppl that CAN have babies but instead let their doctors knock them up (like octomom, and most actresses that opt to have twins just because), then there are "infertility treatments" which is the painful side of treatments. Where we would LOVE if our husbands could knock us up, but instead we are forced to have our doctors do something to us that should be private and intimate.  For us it isn't a choice, it's a must.  We don't have any other option.  I wish that I could just say "well I think I am going to do IVF because I want twins, or because I am a self centered, irresponsible individual that just wants 14 kids because I can't find anyone else to love me" 

While I do not spend my time hum-ho'ing about these people, I do feel that they are completely out of line, and I am ashamed that the octomom is the face of infertility when she has NO idea what it is actually like.

So if when you think of Infertility you think of the "octomom", unfortunately you are completely mislead.  She chose that, it was a choice.  With infertility it isn't a choice, and we don't get the option to chose how many embryos we want put inside of us.  The most, most doctors will do is 2 and when you have fertility issues it is pretty unusual for even ONE to work.  So do not face your facts about infertility on her alone.