Infertility Is…

This journey has been one of the most challenging episodes I’ve faced in my life. But it has also taught me a new version of happiness, love and braveness. Sounds ironic right? For some it is the opposite, but for me, even with an extremely hard and painful chapter in my life, it was a self discovery process I must have walked.

You learn to put your life on hold. Put up with the clinics, appointments, expenses and failures all in hopes of a MAYBE. All in hopes of a CHANCE. A thread of HOPE that maybe one day it will all pay off and you’ll get to be a mom one day.

It’s knowing that you’ll never conceive in the privacy of your home, and it’s forking over tens of thousands of dollars to the doctors who can only promise you a chance. It’s the death of a dream. Some days it’s just numbness. It’s a pain that comes from a social need, a biological need - a need that can’t be filled. Infertility is loss. It’s trauma. It’s grief. But... infertility is also strength.

Written by Alex, @wheneverybodymatters Let’s take this back awhile – when I was in 7th grade I got my period for the…

Infertility is a world of contradictions, and this is one of the more ironic ones. They tell us to take birth control and prenatals together. I remember the first time I was asked to do this, I thought – seriously? I went off birth control, why would I possibly want to go on it again. But I know that hormonally they’re trying to gain some control over our bodies and trying to help us get pregnant. Just so ironic!

You dare to dream and you plan, until one day you hear the word “infertility” and you feel the weight of the world falling down upon you. Suddenly, the dreams start to become lost in the reality of infertility. Infertility is the loss of so many dreams.