Rohini S Rajagopal’s book recounts her battle with infertility

The book, ‘What’s a Lemon Squeezer Doing In My Vagina’, she hopes, will inspire more women to write about pregnancy and bust the myths and taboos around it

Five years of treatment for infertility, three miscarriages and many disappointments later, Rohini S Rajagopal became a mother. But the trauma she had to endure during treatment, she felt, was almost never recognised by her family or friends. “That is why I wrote the book,” she says; her book is titled, What’s a Lemon Squeezer Doing In My Vagina. “The desire to tell the world what it was like to go through the process — emotionally, physically and mentally — was uppermost on my mind. There was almost no kind of emotional support or experiential literature on the subject. All through the procedure, I was expected to function as normally as possible at home and the workplace,” she recalls.