Thursday, March 12, 2009

If at first you don't conceive . . .

MARTIN FITZGERALD © Irishtimes.com
MY WIFE and I have a story. It’s a common one unfortunately. It’s about infertility. Normally it falls upon the fairer sex to discuss it, but I have a big mouth, and I don’t really need to be asked twice.
It’s two years since my wife and I decided to start a family. Where the decision came from I have no idea, but once we both said it aloud there was absolutely no doubt that this was right. In fact, we wondered why we hadn’t thought of it before.
We dived straight in, eager and naive. Thanks to the combined educations furnished by the Sisters of Mercy and the Christian Brothers, we had no idea just how naive we really were. Once we’d established that we couldn’t actually get pregnant by watching English television channels or by holding hands outside the newsagents, we soon worked out what would work and what wouldn’t.

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