Fertility issues are, understandably, a sensitive and difficult topic to broach. For many men, women, and couples, the successful and purposeful conception of a child is a frustrating and potentially heartbreaking ordeal. If you are ever unlucky enough to find yourself in such a situation, the world will become awash with unwanted advice, folk remedies, clinical schedules, and well-meaning (but tiresome) strangers. Around you, signs of fertility will begin to materialise almost as if to mock you.
This emphasises the often-overlooked reality that, for those on an uphill journey to parenthood, the path is just as emotional and spiritual as it is medical. But these struggles are also entirely human – and if there is one thing our species is good at, it is overcoming and conquering the problems that…
