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  • 33 - Managing expectations and achieving realism: the individual journey from hope to closure

  • from SECTION 9 - THE FUTURE: DREAMS AND WAKING UP
  • Edited by Susan Bewley, William Ledger, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Dimitrios Nikolaou
  • Book:
    Reproductive Ageing
    Published online:
    05 February 2014
    Print publication:
    01 June 2009, pp 331-338

  • Summary

    In the UK at present, financial restraints make it impossible for some couples with fertility problems to consider assisted conception. Generally, patients will always be able to find a new clinic, or a new doctor, willing to treat them if they have the money to pay, and many cling to stories of exciting new developments in the field, hoping that this will give them one last opportunity to become parents. Infertility is generally a lifelong problem and the consequences of coping with involuntary childlessness are long term. There are some gender differences in coping strategies and it has been found that women find infertility more stressful, experience more anxiety and depression, and use passive coping strategies more often. At present, couples who give up fertility treatment are not routinely offered help or counselling. There are a number of books that may be helpful to couples facing involuntary childlessness.