"For Anna, the anguish associated with secondary infertility the inability to conceive or carry to term a second or subsequent child was pervading all aspects of her life. Anna believed her family to be incomplete without a second child and was devastated at the thought of her child growing up without a sibling. She came to dread kids' birthday parties and other social interactions, fearful of inevitable questions about a sibling for her toddler."
"She became fixated on the idea of pregnancy, seeing pregnant women and families with multiple young children everywhere. While this could be explained by the psychological concept of attentional bias (paying attention to selective factors leads us to believe there is an increase in a specific event or occurrence), the distress and sorrow caused by these sightings was genuine. Anna spoke of feeling like a failure,"
Anna delighted in motherhood and planned for a second child, but after a year of negative tests her doctor diagnosed secondary infertility. The inability to conceive or carry a subsequent child pervaded all aspects of her life, producing intense anguish, self-blame, and fear that her family was incomplete. She began dreading social situations, became fixated on pregnancy cues, and experienced real distress despite attentional bias explaining some sightings. Her partner's reluctance to pursue fertility treatment and friends' pregnancies increased her isolation and relationship strain. Therapy offered a space where her concerns were taken seriously.
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