r/SecondaryInfertility

8.3K archived posts · Jun 2014 – Sep 2026

Support and community for those struggling, or who have struggled, to add to their families

Whether your first child or children came without intervention, you struggled to conceive, or you experienced pregnancy loss, this is a place to discuss the hurdles that come with secondary infertility.

Created Jun 28, 2014

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Secondary infertility refers to the inability to become pregnant, or to carry a pregnancy to term, following the birth of one or more biological children.

Everyone with secondary infertility is welcome here. Also, you don't have to be experiencing secondary infertility to post pictures, questions, or articles. Please check out the rules, pinned READ ME, and the Wiki with FAQs to better get to know the community.

Some guidelines to consider while you're here, borrowed from a sister community, r/infertility:

Infertility is stressful, and treatment is jam-packed with crazy-making hormones. Sometimes, it's easier to step on peoples' toes than you would expect. Please consider the probable emotional state of other members before taking offense or causing it.

Infertility is isolating, but here we can come together with the only other people in the world who really understand what we're going through. For that reason, you'll find that members often vent the jealousy and bitterness that is unacceptable anywhere else. Most of us can understand and empathize, but if you can't, don't bother trying to change it. It is what it is.

Infertility is not cute and full of numerous medical acronyms. For these reasons, many members find cutesy acronyms to be needlessly confusing and sometimes offensive. Use cutesy acronyms at your own risk.

Secondary infertility fucking sucks - expect some cursing.

So, feel free to share, tell, and vent, but remember to be kind to others here; secondary infertility is often complicated, isolating, and very painful.

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