The Saga of Becoming Fruitful

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Until How Old Will You Try to Get Pregnant?

Being of “advanced maternal age” myself, the question of until when will you try to get pregnant is something that has crossed my mind a couple of times. Even as early as 25 years old, I have heard comments and read articles that mentioned about a woman’s biological clock tick-tocking away. Apparently and as always, the answer is personal and is different on a case-to-case basis.
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Stamp of Infertility

This is a postal stamp that Portugal released this year in March.

I can’t read their writing and the only things I could deduce from the CTT website was that it was a stamp of infertility (Selo Infertilidade) and that it costs 30 euros.

I assume that the stamp was one way to raise awareness to infertility in that Portugal.

I think it is beautiful in a poignant way. The stamp features a man and woman face to face. At their womb level is an outline of an imaginary child. I look at this and it shouts “empty womb” to me. Sigh…