It is well established that psychological influences play a tremendous part in preventing normal pregnancy. Have you ever noticed a situation like the story of Pita which we are about to relate?
Pita and John had been married for nearly three years. Like Nola, Pita had not yet managed to conceive, despite trying everything, undergoing tests, and what not finally the couple decided to adopt. It took some time for all the formalities and clerical work to be completed, and even longer before they knew that a baby had been chosen for them.
Then, would you believe it, about three weeks before the baby assigned to them arrived, Pita came to my surgery. ‘I think I’m pregnant,’ she announced, with breathless excitement. ‘I can’t believe it and the other baby is due next month”
Sure enough. Pita was pregnant! Removal of her mental stresses, I am certain, had released the anxiety factor, permitted everything inside her to operate normally. She wasn’t infertile at all.
Just to conclude the story. She and John adopted the baby assigned to them. And she reproduced her own. What’s more, in the succeeding few years, she produced another two babies. Now she has a delightful family of four. Pita and John are deliriously happy, all the children are treated as equals. It is a happy, united family circle.
‘Just think,’ she said one day. ‘I believed I was sterile a few years ago. Hardly likely now.’
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