Worst things to say to someone experiencing infertility?

[evalooda]

Did anyone listen to Emma Barnett on the 'How to Fail' podcast? She spoke really well on her infertility and said "fertile people cannot comfort infertile people", which was blunt but true.

All the women in my friends and family are nothing but lovely and supportive, but none of them have experienced any struggle TTC.

We hear all sorts of well-meaning but, ultimately, really useless comments.

When I told my mum we were being referred to a fertility clinic she said, sweetly, "you never know, they might just say relax and it'll happen".

For me, I think "just relax" might be the most annoying of all comments when struggling to conceive!

What are your gems?!

(About me: 38, TTC 2+ years, just starting fertility investigations)

Oh and not to forget a gynae consultant telling me “well atleast you can get pregnant!”

6 times with no child, bit of a poop statement really!

Sometimes it feels like you’ve stepped into another universe and you really can’t relate to anyone at all.

@evalooda great outlook re hyper-fertility, they really need to teach people about pregnancy loss with sex education, it’s so common and happens so often that there needs to be more out there other than the badly acted soaps on TV and social media misinformation.