If there’s one thing blogger and soon-to-be mum of two Sophie Cachia is adored for, it’s her ability to talk about taboo topics with equal parts comedy and candour.
But speaking to Mamamia last week, the 26-year-old admitted there was one blog post she found harder than any others to write.
“The one that I was really hesitant about writing… was when I was struggling to fall pregnant,” Cachia said, explaining that at the time she and husband Jaryd hadn’t spoken to loved ones about their conception difficulties.
“I hadn’t told my family, we hadn’t told Jaryd’s family, I hadn’t even told my girlfriends,” she continued.
From the outside, things looked good. Cachia was 25, happily married, had a healthy baby boy, Bobby, and an enviable career thanks to her blog The Young Mummy.
Yet try as they might, the couple just weren't falling pregnant.
"I'd had in my head, looking back now, a very unrealistic view that we were just going to fall pregnant straight away," Cachia said.
"I wanted to maintain that idea that I was just going to get pregnant the next month, or the next month, but then nine months of that down the track you start to think, sh*t, I think I need to start talking to someone about this because this is not going the way I had planned."
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Just like Sophie my first child wasn't planned so i understand how they would have had the expectation that they would just automatically fall pregnant as soon as they started trying. However medically it is not classified as an issue until you have been trying for 12 months. So as someone who had to try for over 4 years to have another baby this article does not really pull at my heart strings. It just sounds like they were impatient and didn't realise that sometimes it takes time to have a baby.