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I am SO tired of this. Even people who are intelligent and sensitive enough to know this still continue to perpetuate this thought.

It's frustrating to me that the ONLY way I can get them to SHUT UP about this myth is to tell them personal info .... I'm on the pill because I have a balanced translocation of my chromosomes which would make it pretty difficult to conceive and then if I did conceive, the baby would have a chance of having a cyclops eye, one chamber to his/her heart, etc. And if that didn't happen, there would still be a chance that I would lose the baby, like I did the LAST one, in the 2nd trimester. That shuts them up, but it seems to be the ONLY thing that does so.

I've tried giving less information like "No, that's not going to happen." or "No, we've tried a lot of very expensive medical intervention already without success and we're not having a biological child.", but people keep saying "Well, so-and-so thought they couldn't conceive a child and she now has two kids!" Grrrrr. Can you tell this is a pet peeve for me?