Fascinated by the Infertilisphere.

The blogosphere of infertile or potentially infertile bloggers posting about their attempts to get pregnant is a very fascinating place to wander through.  I have one such lady listed on my blogroll because she’s just– well, she is very eloquent in her pain and occasional moments of hope.  I empathise with her journey even if its particulars are strange to me. 

It is absolutely remarkable how advanced medical technology is when it comes to giving women opportunities to have pregnancies they simply could never have achieved even twenty years ago.  Science has its amazements. 

But as ever, I mention all this to say that the infertilisphere fascinates me less because of the eloquence and artful writing of many its bloggers, or because of the advances in medical technology, but because of the class and race dynamics that bubble along as undercurrents. 

I’ll get into some of those undercurrents as months go by.  At the moment, I’m not too far from my own 2ww (2 week wait), and have some other things I’d like to get muh blog on about. 

This is just a note to say I keep infertile women in my thoughts because their struggles are worth looking at and understanding more of.