Topic
Infertility
These articles cover the emotional side of infertility in Nigeria: IVF, male infertility, secondary infertility, and handling family pressure as a couple. They're for women, men and couples trying to conceive, and for anyone supporting them.
Here, infertility is rarely private. The questions start soon after the wedding and come up at every naming ceremony and Christmas visit. The blame usually falls on the wife, often before anyone has been tested, although a male factor is involved in close to half of couples who struggle to conceive. Many men never get tested, and they tend to keep the distress to themselves.
Start with infertility and mental health in Nigeria. If you're in treatment, read the emotional side of IVF, and for the part men rarely discuss, male infertility and the silence around it.
Depression, anxiety, grief and strain between partners are ordinary responses, not signs you're handling it badly. You can see a licensed therapist on Mytherapist.ng on your own or as a couple, by video, voice or chat.
Secondary Infertility: When Baby Two Won’t Come
Struggling to conceive after a previous pregnancy? What secondary infertility is, why it happens, why it hurts, when to see a doctor, and how to cope together.
Male Infertility and the Silence Around It
A male factor is involved in close to half of couples who struggle to conceive. The causes, the semen test, what’s treatable, “sperm boosters”, and the silence.
IVF in Nigeria: The Emotional Side
Going through IVF in Nigeria? The emotional ups and downs of a cycle, cost and secrecy, what the law does and doesn’t cover, faith questions, and what helps.
Childlessness in Marriage: Handling Family Pressure
In-laws asking, prayer meetings you didn’t ask for, talk of a second wife. How couples facing childlessness can handle family pressure as a team, in Nigeria.
Infertility and Mental Health in Nigeria
The waiting, the questions at every family gathering, the blame that lands on women. What infertility does to mental health in Nigeria, and what helps.
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