PCOS<\/a> which I was reminded is not a disease, but a group of symptoms. Yeah, ok potayto.. potahto, whatever! It all adds up to me struggling with my weight, losing my hair, being infertile and it sucks! So because of this, the chances of us getting pregnant naturally are very slim. <\/p>\nDo we really want the stress of these medical procedures to get pregant? The three years we’ve spent trying to concieve has already taken our sex life to the very pits of hell and we’ve barely recovered from it. What would IVF and all that other shit do to our sex lives and our emotional state? <\/p>\n
Is having children REALLY worth it when it gets to this point? I really don’t know.<\/p>\n
People who have children talk as though life is incomplete without them, but is it? Isn’t there just as much to gain out of life through loving your partner, travelling, seeing the world and the things that come along with the freedom of NOT having children? <\/p>\n
Fuck sake… where’s a magic 8 ball when I need one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Going into my appointment with my fertility specialist today, I had everything figured out. We were going to take 1-2 years off from trying to get pregnant to give me time to lose my extra weight and for us to figure out if we even really want children afterall… or if our (my) previous obsession …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7124,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,6],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-life-in-nl","category-tantrums-rants","tag-project-baby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4776,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456\/revisions\/4776"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Now I feel as though we have all these massive life decisions to make and we must make them right now, because if we don’t we’ll be left without a choice. Like my biological clock is this time bomb inside of me that if I don’t figure out how to disarm it, is going to go off and blow me and everyone around me to smithereens.<\/p>\n