The Semantics Around Pregnancy Get Confusing Sometimes, Yo
“Gifts” and “gave” and stuff. Let’s see if I can explain this and be rational.
The only way to do these types of posts and not fall down a personalized rabbit hole of resentment is to throw out some anecdotes and quippy stories off the top, so I will do that here.
The second time my wife and I did IVF, it also failed, much as it did the first time. Yay. Well, we found out that one failed in Fiji, which kinda sorta lessens the blow therein.
A couple of weeks after we got back, we talked to some geneticist and the fertility doctor involved in that round. This was an interesting conversation for a few different reasons, none of which I will deeply elaborate on here, as some of it is personal. However, both the geneticist and the fertility doctor, in potential God complex moments, kept talking about other people (not by name, i.e. HIPPA violations) and saying they “gave” them children. It was said so many times on this one phone call that I started to break out in hives a little bit.
