The link between fertility and abbattoirs....
I knew something was up when I got my clothes back from the laundry and there was a newborn baby outfit among them. A few weeks later I bought something in the chemist and the assistant threw a dozen baby’s bibs into the bag for free. From that moment on I knew my days were numbered and that Demeter , the Greek goddess of fertility would claim me sooner or later. Yes dear reader, this mother of four is soon to become a mother of five. Coming from a long line of very fertile women (my sister has 8 children), fertility for me is not so much a blessing as an affliction. I realise this isn't a popular statement to make, coming from a generation of women who were told that they had choices, one of which was to postpone childbirth until their thirties only to find that nature had played a cruel trick, that the thirty-something doesn't conceive as easily as the twenty-something. My heart goes out to women who struggle to conceive; it is frustrating, dis...