I always hoped for twins when I got preg. Which was every year it seemed....6 children in 7 1/2 years....After my first one, the doctor told me I shouldn’t have any more. There was a blood incompability with blood types. Was told a second one might not survive....he’s in his 50’s now and had 3 more after than. My sixth child did die 10 hours after birth with multiple birth defects....My daughter, the last one keeps telling me thanks mom...5 children and 13 grandchilden. Wouldn’t change things for anything, but if there is such a thing as reincarnation, I will be coming back sterile...;o)
When having babies was the natural outcome of marriage, you just got on with it, did the work, loved your babies. Now everything is supposed to be under control.
One thing that’s interesting is that we have to assume these people believed that readers would sympathize with their “problem.” It appears that’s not the case, though, even at the site where they wrote.