Secondary Infertility | My Story

Jessica Kent
3 min readMay 10, 2020

There is nothing like welcoming a baby into the world. Everything about a newborn is perfection. From their beautiful eyes to their little toes, newborns signify the miracle of life.

We have been blessed with two beautiful little girls. They do however, have different biological fathers and for 3 years we have been trying to conceive our third child. However, it is just not happening for our family.

Secondary infertility is the inability to become pregnant after you have had a baby. This affects roughly 3 million women in the Untied States alone.

There are many reasons why a family is struggling with secondary infertility. They are, impaired sperm production, Fallopian tube damage, ovulation disorders, endometriosis, risk factors such as age or certain medications, complications related to prior pregnancy, the list goes on.

We have decided that if a third pregnancy does not happen naturally than it wasn't meant to be. This decision was a difficult one. As badly as we wish to welcome a third child into our family, we also do not wish to put our bodies through IVF or other treatments. These treatments can be very painful and very costly.

As someone who lives her life online through a variety of social media pages such as Youtube, Instagram, Patreon and Twitter, the questions never end.

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