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.
My parents have 12 living children and lost one to miscarriage. They came to visit me in MN the day I found out I wasn’t pregnant, after trying to conceive during that year after we lost our first child. I’ll never forget my Dad speaking faith to me as I told him I feared we would never have another child.
He shared that the first few years of their marriage they didn’t conceive but once the babies started coming they just didn’t stop. He said he thought Mom must have had early miscarriages in those first years because he couldn’t believe that they could have gone that long without getting pregnant, as fertile as they proved to be.
He had feared that they would never have children.
He was drafted and had been to the front lines of Korea. Mom had heard a report that his whole company had been annihilated; later a correction was issued, they had reported the wrong company number. A lot of stress. Started farming dead broke after he got back from Korea.
Who knows what really happened. But I do believe that stress and other things can impact fertility in ways we may not realize yet.
Something I do know, though: Life is a precious miracle. And sometimes we get gifts we never asked for, never thought we’d ever want, and originally grieve over. Blessings in disguise.