I told her about what the doctor told me and some extra facts that I had picked up along the way. Apparently sometime to think about what I told her before and thinking about it she realized a few things.
1) PCOS is a real thing that effects more than 1 in 15 women.
2) My grandmother was told that she would have problems getting pregnant because of cysts on her ovaries. (And she had 5 children with long periods of waiting in between.)
3) My mother herself had sporadic periods until she was 21 and her doctor put her on progesterone pills.
4) Doctors have told her that her testosterone levels have always been high.
Surprise Mom! You have PCOS! Or...had? Once her doctors gave her the progesterone her periods started to even out and then come on their own.
I think that once she realized that PCOS wasn't a sentence to childlessness for all eternity, she could cope with it better.
Because PCOS doesn't mean we will never have children. It only means that it is going to be harder and take much longer to hear that pitter patter.
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