Fertility Stereotypes You Might Not be Aware of
We do our best to avoid offending those who attempt to build families. We are familiar with what NOT to say, but what about the following stereotypes?
View ArticleThings I Wish People Knew About Secondary Infertility
I’m lucky, but I’m not: I absolutely love my young son, and truly appreciate the ability to have conceived him. However, I never imagined having only one child, and neither did my husband. My gut tells...
View ArticleSocial Media Choices After Pregnancy
What happens when those of us who have sought social media support for infertility become pregnant? Some openly discuss their pregnancy. Others stick around, but don't discuss their pregnancy. Still...
View ArticleFacing My Fears
I visualize Mark Zuckerberg clicking post on his Facebook page, announcing to the WORLD that he and his wife endured three miscarriages, and were pregnant again. Some might be curious why he waited...
View ArticleI’m Sorry, There is no Heartbeat
I didn't know that the seven words I would hear next would rock my world for weeks, months, and years to come. "I'm sorry, there's no heartbeat."
View ArticleReminder: Don’t Assume People Have Kids
Smack. That was the sound of my foot hitting my mouth. I knew better. Or so I thought. After all that we had been through regarding infertility, I had been so hyper-aware of assumption comments.
View ArticleTo Blog or Not to Blog
Countless people and businesses who start off blogging with a bang end up abandoning the practice for a myriad of reasons. I can't count the number of times I have clicked on a website's blog and...
View ArticlePeople Are in Pain
For every time I thought about my friend over the years, I assume his mother thought about him a trillion times more. What would that be like? To lose a grown child? It is unbearable to fathom losing a...
View ArticleInfertility Education Earlier, Not Later
I firmly believe that we need to educate our young men and women about the symptoms and causes of infertility earlier rather than later. We need to do basic fertility testing sooner rather than later....
View ArticleGrateful for Infertility
Yes, I am grateful for having been diagnosed with infertility. Why would anyone be grateful for THAT? Let me count the number of ways.
View ArticlePressure To Have Children
People with infertility feel pressure by family, friends, and well intentioned people every day. Pressure to have a baby within a "reasonable" amount of time after they get married. Pressure to bless...
View ArticleWhen Family Announces a Pregnancy
There it was again. That announcement. Those three words that have shaken me to my core, have thrown me off balance, and have put me in a somber mood. “I am pregnant.” One would assume that after...
View ArticleThings I Wish People Knew About Secondary Infertility
I’m lucky, but I’m not: I absolutely love my young son, and truly appreciate the ability to have conceived him. However, I never imagined having only one child, and neither did my husband. My gut tells...
View ArticleTaking a Break
Awhile back, I wrote about the challenges and uncertainty of blogging. The blogging world was new to me, and I wasn’t sure how to navigate it. Blogging gurus always advise focusing on a specific...
View ArticleStart Asking Each Other – NIAW 2016
Think about the last time you asked how someone was doing and they mentioned a challenge, an illness, or said they were just feeling a little down. Did you hear what they were really saying? How they...
View ArticleMany Journeys, Much Support
This week I feature a prominent blogger and author in the infertility community...Justine Froelker...
View ArticleEvery day reminders
"Not a day goes by that I don't think about my experience. The pain has lessened, but it hasn't disappeared."
View ArticleAbortion and Wishful Thinking
Abortion is something I rarely visualized before my miscarriage. It was something I never needed to contemplate. And I was never religious, so I didn't take an automatic pro-life stance on the topic. I...
View ArticleLife After Infertility (Part 1) – Challenges
As I set my laptop on top of my thighs, I started to go there - "Be careful of the radiation! Maybe you should set it somewhere else!" In the not so distant past, this was one of many thoughts...
View ArticleLife After Infertility – Reliefs (Part 2)
Here is a follow up to my previous post about the challenges of life after infertility...
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