It was clear that this patient had moved on and was beginning to look forward to being freer and to doing different things with her life. Hopefully her sexual life will return, too, when she can value it again for itself rather than as a means to a pregnancy.

For some women it is not so much the loss of future babies that is the underlying sadness, but a more general sense that the end of the ability to be a fertile woman is the end of a central part of herself, something which is in some way the essence of her being.

Listening to such accounts one can understand the power of myth and legend that is handed down from generation to generation. Perhaps this is where the art of medicine comes in, to demystify and clarify.

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