This First Person article is the experience of Kaitlin Geiger-Bardswich, who works at a national non-profit in Ottawa. For more information about CBC’s First Person columns, please see the FAQ.
My wife and I weren’t supposed to deal with infertility. Healthy and in our early 30s, we had two uteruses and two sets of eggs. We just needed sperm. We headed to a fertility centre thinking this would be easy.
It wasn’t.
I miscarried our identical twins in July 2022 after nearly two years of trying to get pregnant. It was made even harder by how abandoned we felt by the medical system.
Although I was under
