Regarding book design, I decided to make a book for my aunt about her story with the IUD, or rather her autobiography with the IUD.
I wanted to use my aunt's experience to remind contemporary women that they should choose the right type of contraception for themselves.
Auntie Reminiscences (in her own words)：
(A woman's memories of childbirth from an earlier generation)
"In 1996, three months after I had my baby, I went to the hospital to get an "IUD" and to get a certificate. Everyone did it because you had to have an IUD to go to work after giving birth, and everyone wore one, but I was the strange one for not wearing one.
It was a small operating room with a bed. The whole process was quick, maybe two minutes. That's all I remember about the IUD.
I think it's normal for a woman to have minor ailments and pains of one kind or another.
After the operation, I started to feel pain in my abdomen and with it, I noticed that I was bleeding when I didn't have my period, sometimes leaking a few drops of blood and then stopping, and sometimes this irregular bleeding was as heavy as real menstrual blood. The back pain got worse by the day and by the end it was very torturous for me to sit on the stool whenever it was slightly harder.
Unfortunately, at the time, post-operative follow-up for this type of surgery was also rarely given the attention it deserved. Few doctors would give direct instructions on post-operative follow-up for this type of surgery. (There were many warning signs that women had to work out through the pain in their bodies, and some women were not informed about them and were therefore stricken with gynaecological problems without ever realising that they were related to the IUD.)
For 25 years, I have been going to the hospital for these abnormalities and have been diagnosed with all kinds of "inflammatory diseases", pelvic inflammatory disease, vaginitis and cervicitis, and the doctors have prescribed all kinds of anti-inflammatory drugs.
The largest number of pills in the medicine cabinet at home were all kinds of medicines for gynaecological diseases. The side effects of wearing a birth control ring followed me like a tail, often with a frown and a painful feeling of exhaustion.
After many unsuccessful attempts to find a doctor, even I had forgotten about the little metal ring in my body.
For me, it was always a pain that could not be spoken about. My husband couldn't understand and I couldn't tell my children about it, so I just suffered through it, hiding my fears and breakdowns deep down.
Some people subconsciously avoid it, others really forget it.
Whether it is the period, the womb, or the birth control ring in the womb, subconsciously it is considered a private domain and an experience not to be shared publicly.
In fact, it is up to us women to face up to our bodies and reclaim our bodily autonomy from the pain of the old days."
Interview with my aunt：
I logically organized my aunt's experience with IUD：
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