When Couples Disagree Over Infertility Treatment: The Impasse Whether you are just planting your feet on the path to the fertility journey for the first time, or if your shoes are well worn, we all brace ourselves for the infertility tempest headed in our direction. The problem is that there is one squall that so […]
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The Meanest, Most Unrelenting Bully On the Block: YOU You would never dream of talking to someone you truly loved that way. People would look at you sideways and things would get awkward and weird, if you said the words out loud, in public. And, if you said those things to someone else, you’d pretty
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Infertility Won’t Define Me: Making It Stick Now that you have given yourself some baby news triage and you’ve screamed “infertility won’t define me” from the top of your lungs, it’s time to make this your truth, permanently. Anyone can chant a mantra for a while and pretend to feel better, but that’s not what
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The Heavy Lifting Begins Once you’ve given yourself some Baby News Triage, it’s time to get to work. Getting to the point where hearing about someone else’s pregnancy, or receiving an invite to a baby shower, doesn’t leave you doubled over in pain (unless of course, like me, you have a genetic aversion to mind-numbing
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Go Ahead, Admit It Aaaah, pregnancy and birth announcements–the bane of anyone living with infertility’s existence. While we suffer silently and try to conceal our pain with a brave face, others are shouting from the rooftops about their baby joy. When your nursery is agonizingly vacant and you’ve suffered yet another kick to the shin
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Who’s Scared Of A Little Old Finish Line? When we start out on the fertility journey, so many of us have take it for granted that come hell or high water, we are not stopping until we have a baby in our arms. We resolve to make our stubborn sperm, overworked ovaries, and underperforming uteri
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A Journey Out Loud or Comfortably Mum? As if navigating the reality of infertility wasn’t challenging enough, the question of what to tell family, friends, co-workers, and other inquiring minds when the stork has been conspicuously absent from making a delivery at your house, cruelly adds to the vertiginous heap of anxiety already piling up
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As Gorgeous As A Lab Rat Poked, prodded, bloated, cranky, heartbroken, and engaged in a terrifying level of intimacy with a sonogram probe, knee deep in my fertility journey, I felt about as gorgeous as a lab rat. My skin broke out, my pants were tight, and I had a couple small bald patches on
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Bullied by Infertility? The avalanche of insecurity that comes as a stinking “free gift with purchase” during fertility treatment can rock the self esteem of even the most grounded and confident amongst us. Think about it. Even before you stepped into your doctor’s office for the first time, you have endured repeated kicks to the
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We’re Infertile, Have We Met? Now that you have the tools to craft your response to the 3 word game changing question, anyone living with infertility must answer, you are well on your way to defining your journey. But, if you have a partner, with whom you plan to build your family, the work doesn’t
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