'When Michelle Obama spoke out it was...earth-shattering. It was a very big deal.'
Former First Lady Michelle Obama attends 'Becoming: An Intimate Conversation with Michelle Obama' at State Farm Arena on May 11, 2019 in Atlanta.
CCRM Fertility, another national fertility chain, said doctors in its practices have anecdotally noticed an uptick in interest from black female patients., founding partner and co-medical director of CCRM Boston, said he has seen a 20% to 25% increase in his office alone in the number of black women who have come for consultations in the past year.
U.S. President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama, and daughters Malia and Sasha pose for a family portrait with their pets Bo and Sunny in the Rose Garden of the White House on Easter Sunday, April 5, 2015, in Washington. It is estimated that black women who have never given birth are almost twice as likely than white women to experience infertility, but they seek medical help for it half as much, according to data from the. Around 15 percent of white women between ages 25 and 44 seek infertility treatment, compared with 8 percent of black women, according to the data, released in 2014.
As Millon worked through her stages of grieving and deciding what to do next, she joined a book club that happened to select"Becoming." Millon said she remembers reading and rereading the section where Obama wrote about her own infertility.
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