I am part of the fertility-anxious generation, why are we so worried about pregnancy?

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I am part of the fertility-anxious generation, why are we so worried about pregnancy?
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The NHS says one in seven couples will have fertility issues, but 84% will conceive naturally within a year. Why do so many drive themselves to despair presuming it will be an impossible feat? asks SCFGallagher

that egg freezing clinics were “preying on women being anxious and getting them to throw money at a problem”).

You read someone’s story and naturally, there’s comparison with your own situation and a fear it could be you…Professor Cheong points out that without proper context, fertility testing can be hard to interpret. “It poses a challenge for doctors because many [products] are not really certified so they paid hundreds of pounds but, you can’t really make any clinical conclusion out of it.”

Of course some people do have reason to think they might face problems, and fertility does decline as you get older. Hannah, 33, from Bristol, says that from a young age her mum made her aware that she went throughin her forties. “I have always had this looming feeling of time running out,” she says. Or Alex, 33, from London, who has been a heavy smoker for 10 years and started worrying in the past five years that this might have damaged the quality of his sperm .

Therapist Aoife Drury says that the prospect of infertility forces a question of ‘unknown’ and out of control

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