by Renee Laskowski

Created on: April 01, 2010

Infertility and the Church

Contrary to what many believe infertility is indeed a disease. It will hit couple physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually. It will hit couples in different stages of their lives in all social statuses and all nationalities. Infertility doesn’t care who you are. One in every three people is infertile and in need of medical help.

First, let’s look at how infertility affects couples physically. There are many ways that it hits. It can hit just the female or just the male. It may even hit both. The definition of Infertility is the inability to either carry full-term a child or not being able to conceive a child. Many can eventually have a child with medical help but for a cost, a cost both physically and mentally causing sometimes trauma. There are many test and prescriptions to endure that will put especially the woman into so many highs and lows. Stress and fatigue are the two main physical effects. The cost of finances are so expensive (and many insurance companies will not cover these expenses) many couples find themselves working two or more jobs to save for that many times one chance to have a child.

Second, let’s look at the emotional side effects of infertility. Most of the time couples feel all alone in their uphill battle to have a child of their own. A lot of couples are ashamed to their infertility, believing they are less of a family because they do not have a child. Some people ask if it is worth it. Is any other disease you can think of worth the cure? Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t work. Think of the hopes of a cure and the devastating news it didn’t work.

Third, along with the emotional it affects you mentally. With all the emotions and the ups and downs of infertility depression is very common. It will play with your mind. You want to say that it is OK to be childless but deep down the ache is unbearable. Infertility has been the cause of many break-ups of marriages, proof that it not only affects the woman but also the man. Women usually are outwardly emotional but men usually keep it all inside, for fear they will seem weak if they are longing for a child.

Lastly, because of all the controversy in infertility treatments the emotional and mental trauma if causes, infertility will cause spiritual breakdown. It happens to couples grounded in their faith just as much as those who are babes in Christ. The feeling of your prayers not being answered brings in at feeling

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