This is a guest post by Mrs. Green Grass written when she was struggling with infertility in May 2012. She has since conceived via ivf and given birth to a son. You can follow her journey on her blog Baby-Making Merry-go-Round. . . . . . I starred infertile because I don’t like the word. [...]
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This is a guest post by Hellobee community member, redsmarties. You can follow her on her blog Baking and Babies. . . . . . The majority of infertility success stories that are shared in the media today are those that involve ART, or assisted reproductive technologies. These interventions are wonderful; I love that we [...]
This is the second year I’ve known about Infertility Awareness Week. Last year is the first time I came out to our friends that we were going through infertility by posting a link about infertility on Facebook. What I’ve found is that lots of people don’t know what infertility is characterized as, or just how [...]
This week is national infertility awareness week. I have read that 1 in 8 woman will suffer from infertility. I am one. 5 years ago in the midst of fertility treatments, I never would have dreamed that I would be sitting here with four children. I so desperately wanted just one. I have read several [...]
As I mentioned previously, I was very hesitant to admit that there was something wrong with me, and couldn’t figure out why my regular doctor couldn’t help me get pregnant. I knew seeing an RE would be expensive. Very few states offer infertility insurance coverage, and our state isn’t one of them. I knew my [...]
TTC is draining. It starts with it’s been three months and I’m still not pregnant, but then three turns to six, and six turns to however many months you’re at right now. For us, our bump in the road (not in my abdomen) came six months in. I had stopped taking the pill and we [...]
*Originally written and posted on May 22, 2010. At that point, Mr. Cowboy and I had been through 3 rocky years on our infertility journey and had begun our adoption process for Lil’ CB. Even though we are nearly three years removed from the original post date, the things on this list still ring true [...]
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