Do you have any idea how many factors all have to come together for conception to occur?
After we lost our first child we spent some time trying to conceive again. After you read what all is involved and how many things can go wrong, you realize that conception and pregnancy are miracles of life every time they happen.
I don’t know everything; none of us does. But I do know that small changes can have huge impact when all the details are so intricate and interconnected. And doctors instinctively know this even just from anecdotal evidence they see every day. I’ve mentioned elsewhere how many people try for years to conceive and as soon as they give up and make plans to adopt they conceive. Did stress somehow impact their fertility? I’ve read in several different books on conception, pregnancy, and women’s health about how a woman wanting too desperately to either become pregnant or not become pregnant can impact both her sexual response and her fertility. It’s all connected.
I think when we automatically shoot down a scientific claim because it is politically incorrect - and then banish the speaker to outer hell because of it - we stifle the pursuit of truth and dumb down both our society and its dialogue. And that can only hurt us in the long run.
The body can do amazing things. There are stories about military people in combat situations who can do unbelievable things. That’s the power of the fight-or-flight chemicals. When your body is in the red zone - fully engaged against an enemy - only the Lord knows what your body can and can’t do. Can adrenaline alter the bones in the inner ear to prevent hearing damage from a war zone? Well..... how many soldiers come back deaf? I don’t think I’d be too quick to say what is possible and what isn’t.
I know other folks have difficulties. Again, same problem in my extended family ~ indeterminent infertility ~ they never get pregnant.
An old family church (I discuss it on my ABOUT Page) has some congregations that solved the problem with frequent divorce and remarriage within the congregation. That way everybody gets a chance for having a child. Bill Clintons baby daddy and his mother were members of the same organization. Both he and she were married 5 times.
Now that's not everybody's cup of tea of course......... One of my Great Great grandfather's was married a good two dozen times ~ every race and ethnicity in America in his day ~ he seems to have stopped by Sioux Ste Marie every few years to get a new wife from the many tribes camped there.
He had one child.