We have ds (5) who we had no problems conceiving.
However for whatever reason we have been unable to have any more children and even several rounds of fertility treatment have failed.
I'm so sad about it, I had Pnd after ds so wasted the very early days and ds was a high needs demanding toddler. Now he's 5 and I feel like he doesn't need me much anymore. I was a sahm but after the fertility treatment failed went back to work which felt again like closing the book on another baby.
I need to let it go but don't know how. I don't feel like a real family, I see FB pictures of people with several children and people comment 'lovely family' but I never put any of my 'family' up because it feels like we're importers, not a real family, inferior.
I tend to be quite negative about ds and I know I need to stop. I just feel like everyone must look at my 'family' and think 'who are they kidding?' I frequently feel like we are three strangers who happen to share a house.
I'm just waiting all the time for things to get better but they don't.
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Whowillsaveyoursoul · 07/12/2014 21:40
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