According to Lindsey and Driskill (2013), 10 percent or 6.1 million women in the United States battle infertility. Its main causes are issues related to ovulation, fallopian tubes, uterus, and uterine fibroids. Lindsey and Driskill (2013) want health care professionals to understand the psychological and emotional difficulties that women face with infertility, which is considered a complicated and stressful matter. Lindsey and Driskill (2013) suggest that when it comes to becoming a mother, for most women it is a lifelong dream and they believe it is an inevitable achievement, which determines their purpose in life. If for some reason this attainment is unfulfillable, then feelings of sorrow and lack of success have an immense influence on
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I find that the information was very easy to understand, as the article was mostly based on true stories, experimentations on infertile women, and it was not excessively written with scientific terms that could be confusing. The first interesting fact that I learned in this article is “10% or 6.1 million women in the United States struggle with infertility” ( Lindsey & Driskill 2013, p.43). Secondly, “infertility does not only affect the mind, but also the woman’s heart” ( Lindsey & Driskill, 2013, p.43). Finally, “women with a good marital relationship, education, and career possibility may have protective elements to help prevent them from suffering greater distress during infertility “(Lindsey & Driskill, 2013, p.46). I would definitely recommend this article to other students because it will help them understand, as future nurses, what women go through while battling infertility. Most importantly, it will allow them to have a better intervention approach to this issue. The article makes me want to find out more about the infertility treatment. Although it stated that some cases may not work, but I am curious to know if those cases do not work because the women are not strong enough to go through the medical procedures that those treatments involve, or maybe they failure is due to lack of support and encouragement from closed ones and health care
I find that the information was very easy to understand, as the article was mostly based on true stories, experimentations on infertile women, and it was not excessively written with scientific terms that could be confusing. The first interesting fact that I learned in this article is “10% or 6.1 million women in the United States struggle with infertility” ( Lindsey & Driskill 2013, p.43). Secondly, “infertility does not only affect the mind, but also the woman’s heart” ( Lindsey & Driskill, 2013, p.43). Finally, “women with a good marital relationship, education, and career possibility may have protective elements to help prevent them from suffering greater distress during infertility “(Lindsey & Driskill, 2013, p.46). I would definitely recommend this article to other students because it will help them understand, as future nurses, what women go through while battling infertility. Most importantly, it will allow them to have a better intervention approach to this issue. The article makes me want to find out more about the infertility treatment. Although it stated that some cases may not work, but I am curious to know if those cases do not work because the women are not strong enough to go through the medical procedures that those treatments involve, or maybe they failure is due to lack of support and encouragement from closed ones and health care