No fake babies, please
I take issue with cruel inconsiderate people who criticize infertility patients, accusing them of not accepting their fate and trying to change the “fact” that nature intended them to be childless. The other common stupid accusation is that people who do infertility treatement are selfish because they only want a baby for themselves, not for the sake of the baby. I find that rarely to be the case. As you may know, I spend a lot of time keeping in touch with my graduated patients. From hearing of the great sacrifices of late-night feedings, diaper changes and just overall giving over their entire life for the welfare and happiness of their new little ones, selfish s the LAST word I would use to describe parenthood. I truly believe that for the most part, people who desire to be parents, do so for the opportunity to GIVE love to their child. Time and time again, my patients confirmed for me that they now realize the fleeting agony of injections, doctor’s visits and uncomfortable procedures are a walk in the park compared to the difficult (but very welcome) trials of parenthood that will last for the next few decades.
However, I do concede that there do exist a small minority of people in the world for whom the concept of motherhood IS just all about what it can do for THEM and how it can make them feel and not about the baby. These women do not undergo fertility treatment. Under what circumstances is this indisputably true? When the baby is fake.
**WARNING** This video is creepy and you might prepare yourself to turn it off it gets too unnerving.
Perhaps critics who pick on women who are trying to get pregnant in order to have real babies to love will leave them alone once they see the obvious contrast here.
