It seems very fitting that this year's National Infertility Awareness Week is starting off on Easter Sunday. Fertility, is after all, the reason for the season! Not too many people know this, and I have to admit I didn't know this either until Easter came around last year and a {I'm sure well meaning} acquaintance who knew we were trying for quite a while, had said me to me "Maybe the Easter Bunny will bring you a baby!" The mental leap of Jesus bringing chocolates and duck shaped marshmallows was already a bit much for me, and now to toss in the image of babies was just a little over the top.
Any woman who is trying to conceive is constantly thinking about the egg, and trying to pin point ovulation!! Eggs, like rabbits and hares, have been fertility symbols for quite some time. Birds lay eggs and rabbits and hares give birth to large litters in the early spring. The egg and the rabbit very quickly became symbols of the rising fertility of the earth during Spring Time.
While researching this Easter tradition of Fertility, I stumbled across some interesting information. The females can conceive a second litter of offspring while still pregnant with the first. That puts things in to perspective, and certainly makes me less jealous of the ladies who are 6 or 7 months pregnant, with a baby under one!
Here's wishing you a wonderfully fertile and fun Easter!!
{Photo Credit Anne Geddes & Jacki Good}
