{"id":297164,"date":"2023-08-27T09:21:26","date_gmt":"2023-08-27T14:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=297164"},"modified":"2023-08-25T17:55:59","modified_gmt":"2023-08-25T22:55:59","slug":"bindi-irwin-infertility-endometriosis-struggles-lucky-parents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/bindi-irwin-infertility-endometriosis-struggles-lucky-parents\/","title":{"rendered":"Bindi Irwin on infertility and endometriosis struggles: We are ‘very, very lucky’ to be parents"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Conservationist and celebrity Bindi Irwin has spoken out about her battle not only with endometriosis, but infertility, urging people to be more thoughtful with their words.<\/p>\n

In 2020, Irwin announced<\/a> her pregnancy with husband Chandler Powell, though at the time, it was still early. \u201cThough I\u2019m still in my first trimester, we really want you to be part of our journey from the beginning of this new life chapter,” she wrote. “We couldn\u2019t wait to share the news as this beautiful little being has become the most important part of our lives.\u201d<\/p>\n

From there, she included her followers in her pregnancy, sharing ultrasound photos<\/a> and eventually, celebrating the birth<\/a> of their daughter… which happened to come on the couple’s one-year wedding anniversary. They named their daughter Grace Warrior Irwin Powell, but have had no other children since then \u2014 which Irwin said has led to many uncomfortable questions.<\/p>\n

In a recent interview with People<\/a>, she spoke about having endometriosis, and the struggles she’s had to conceive. She called Grace her “tiny miracle.”<\/p>\n

Irwin went public<\/a> with her endometriosis diagnosis earlier this year, saying she had struggled with “insurmountable fatigue, pain [and] nausea” for 10 years. “A doctor told me it was simply something you deal with as a woman [and] I gave up entirely, trying to function through the pain,” she wrote on Instagram. Endometriosis<\/a> is a condition in which tissue which is similar to that which grows inside a woman’s uterine lining grows outside<\/em> the uterus. As Mayo Clinic explained:<\/p>\n

[B]ecause this tissue has no way to exit your body, it becomes trapped. When endometriosis involves the ovaries, cysts called endometriomas may form. Surrounding tissue can become irritated, eventually developing scar tissue and adhesions \u2014 bands of fibrous tissue that can cause pelvic tissues and organs to stick to each other.<\/em><\/p>\n

Endometriosis can cause pain \u2014 sometimes severe \u2014 especially during menstrual periods. Fertility problems also may develop. Treatments for the condition are available.<\/p>\n

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