One of the common jokes during April Fools’ Day day is about being pregnant. It may sound funny, but to some women, that joke is not funny at all.
According to Fox 43, infertility is defined by having unprotected sex for one year without getting pregnant. One in 6 couples is dealing with this problem.
"Patients who go through infertility and are struggling for years to try to conceive don't see any humor in that at all. They're facing it month-to-month dealing with trying to conceive and when somebody plays a joke that they're pregnant when they're not it just shows insensitivity to this problem," said Robert Filer M. D. of Fertility Center, LLC in York Pennsylvania.
Singer Gwen Stefani even shared a photo of a sonogram on Instagram to prank her fans by captioning the picture, "It's a girl."
A school teacher from Burrillville, Rhode Island named Chelsey Kimmel, post a lengthy message to Instagram warning her social media followers and telling to think twice in sharing pregnancy prank on April Fools’ Day.
Kimmel, 24, has been trying to get pregnant for 18 months with her partner, Jamie Cardinal for five years. They also suffered a miscarriage in October last year, and they are due to start in vitro fertilization this month, ABC News reported.
"I've known people for a long time who joke that they're pregnant and this year it hit me that it does hurt," Kimmel told ABC News. "I struggle with real posts of people I know and love when they really are pregnant, but when people make a joke [about it], women like me, who want more than anything in the world to be pregnant ... it just really hits home. It can hurt."
Around 12 percent of women between 15 to 44 years old are having a hard time in getting pregnant, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
