Childfree After Infertility
Unladylike
Unladylike Media
4.8 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 21 December 2021
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
When faced with infertility, unladies are often pressured to just "try harder." But what if you don't want to? A pair of listeners take Cristen and Caroline along their journey of navigating infertility and being childfree NOT by choice—or at least not first choice.
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| 0:59.2 | I had read a couple books in a row that were all thrillers, and it just ended up that |
| 1:07.4 | in each case, whoever the kidnapper was, the murderer was, it was an infertile woman |
| 1:13.0 | who just could not mentally get a handle on her situation and would, you know, kidnap |
| 1:17.9 | a pregnant woman and steal her baby or had some sort of bitterness that would show up |
| 1:23.3 | in villainy. Like obviously, infertile women are unhinged monsters who are going to commit |
| 1:29.7 | crimes, which as an infertile person myself, I have never had that inclination. We do |
| 1:35.0 | have other things going on besides thinking about kidnapping babies. |
| 1:55.5 | Hey y'all and welcome to Unladylike. I'm Caroline. I'm Kristen. Last week on the podcast, |
| 2:01.7 | we talked about being child-free by choice and all of the assumptions that come with it, |
| 2:07.9 | that you're too selfish or materialistic or surely you must hate kids. And today, we're |
| 2:15.1 | looking at the flip side of being child-free, being child-free not by choice or at least |
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