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Help-seeking according to development status, migration, ethnicity
Boivin et al., 2007. Hum Reprod, 22, 1506-1512
Cardiff Fertility Studies
Causal explanations underpin help- seeking in LMIC
 (Participant Sudan): ... in-laws, family, ‘you still haven’t become pregnant? You’re not 3 yet? Don’t you want to go to the doctors? You’re not concerned about this issue?’ inside you, you wish you could become a mother, there isn’t a women who doesn’t wish to become a mother. But I have surrendered [giving in to will of God] to the fact that this thing is within Gods hands, when it comes it comes. What God wants will come, so the worry...everything is coming from God.
 (Participant Europe): I am having counselling by a psychologist for grief related to the loss of my babies [miscarriage] and my family's decisions which favour my brothers and sisters who have children. I go to a support group with other women to help me with this
Bayoumi et al. 2018 RBM & Society Online
Cardiff Fertility Studies
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