Kellie Coffey’s I Would Die for That – Song on Infertility
I usually try not to read the comments on YouTube.com, mainly because there always seem to be so many Internet trolls looking to make trouble. But I couldn’t resist reading the comments for this music video. There seems to be a raging debate on whether it was appropriate for Kellie Coffey to start her song talking about teenage pregnancy.
Now, ignoring all the posts that bring up the right to choose, and so on, the most worthy argument I saw was that teenage pregnancy isn’t something anyone would wish to have. I hear the point. However, I think these comment givers are missing the meaning of this song.
I think it’s hard for people who have never gone through infertility to understand. It can be absolutely heartbreaking for couples coping with infertility to hear about someone getting pregnant unintentionally, when they are trying so hard but can’t get pregnant.
I think Kellie Coffey expressed this heartache well, in a realistic way. What do you think?
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I’d found a different song kind of uplifting …. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shzJY3msrnA&mode=related&search=
(Hopefully that link comes through …. otherwise search for “Lady Saw” and/or “(Infertility) No less than a woman” on YouTube.)
Wow! I can not hold back the tears. It’s like Kellie Coffey heard my heart’s desire. I don’t feel the song is in any way derogatory. She is simply conveying her struggle and my struggle to become pregnant. Yes, it does seems like those who do not have trouble with infetility, really don’t understand the heartache of those who does suffer from infertility.
Yup, you’ll need tissues when you see this video. Kellie said in her song what I wish I was eloquent enough to say.
If you haven’t been through infertility, you can’t fully understand. People mean well, but sometimes say very insensitive things. Or worse, I’ll see some horrible story on the news about somebody tossing a baby in a dumpster. I would go to hell and back for a baby and they tossed theirs away like a piece of garbage.
My heart goes out to every woman who is infertile. And my prayers are with you.
I just watched the video for the first time. Guess I’m a year or so late!
I do think the message of the song was a little bit mixed. It seemed to me unnecessarily cruel to speak longingly of “what some give up”–like it is disrespectful of the decision to give a child up for adoption, even though I don’t think that was the writer’s intent. I think she could have gotten her message across without drawing that particular parallel. And for the record, I have experienced infertility, although I am blessed enough to have one daughter now and another on the way.
Blair- I could be off base, but I am fairly sure I am not. When she says “what some would give up” she is talking about abortion not adoption.