I Feel Like I'm Letting Everyone Down

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🗓️ 30 March 2021

⏱️ 5 minutes

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I Feel Like I'm Letting Everyone Down - Mary is struggling with infertility and believes she is disappointing her husband and family. - Dr. Laura: "Biology is not in our control." | To participate on the radio program; call 1-800-Dr-Laura / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment - https://www.drlaura.com/make-an-appointment. Become a Dr. Laura Family Member: https://www.drlaura.com/ See https://www.drlaura.com/privacy-policy for privacy information.

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0:00.0	Thanks for listening to my call of the day podcast. You can hear my live radio program Monday through Friday from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern time on serious XM.
0:10.0	Try and 11 Mary, welcome to the program. Hi, Dr. Laura. How are you? Good. How can I help? Well, I'm just I need some help trying to cope with what I'm going through. I had a misperage a few months ago and.
0:28.0	It's very hopeful. A couple months ago when I met with my doctor and just start trying again and because of how my body works or doesn't work, I have to.
0:39.0	Do the pill to get a period and and clomet and.
0:44.0	And after two months, it's not working in and each time it happens, I go through this disappointment like I'm putting my husband down and our families and and so my doctor now wants me to go to see a fertility doctor and I'm just having a hard time dealing with a disappointment.
1:11.0	Well, you hardly can be letting anybody down unless you're doing something intentional. Biology is out of your control.
1:21.0	Yeah, so you're not letting anybody down has been married me want to children and I want to be able to give them children.
1:29.0	You may not be able to give them children. You two may have to adopt children who need mommies and daddies. Yes, yes. Trust me. One in the morning when you're feeding and changing poopy divers.
1:42.0	You don't remember where the kid came from.
1:45.0	Yes.
1:47.0	Could be the store.
1:49.0	So if you're going to spend all this money and put yourself through all this personal stress, I'm not sure that's a wise idea.
1:59.0	DNA isn't that important. Love is.
2:02.0	Yeah, that's true.
2:04.0	I mean, you love your husband and he's not your brother.
2:08.0	True.
2:09.0	Right? You're not genetically related to this man.
2:14.0	So we can love a kid we adopt.
2:17.0	I do want to have my own children and I do want to go to the next step.
2:21.0	Okay, then go do all of that. Go ahead.
2:25.0	Go ahead.
2:28.0	Keep frustrating yourself month by month.
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