Infertility Survivors Finally Heard
The life as a book metaphor isn’t new, but it does provide a novel way to infuse some creative license and fresh thinking into what can sometimes feel like stuff happening around and to you. I encourage those wrestling with what comes next to embrace the idea of becoming the author of your own life. At the same time […]
Women who experience infertility and do not gone on to parent get short shrift not only in society but in research. They are left to cope without much needed support or understanding. This is made all the more difficult amid the deification of mothers. That’s why I’m pleased today to share an online discussion with the […]
Updated 4/27/11: The research study’s author comments below… How many of you once bounced around looking for someone — anyone — with counseling credentials who knew even a smidgen about what you were going through? Someone who actually heard you when you explained your dogged pursuit of parenthood…and now your need for a bit of […]
“Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.” — Aldous Huxley When I started blogging from my kitchen several years ago about coming to terms with infertility, I never fathomed my experience would end up in a major national daily like Canada’s The Globe […]
Today’s fertile women have yesterday’s infertile women to thank for the development of the mighty Pill.* That’s right. Our barren peeps have apparently had quite the societal impact. I learned about the Pill’s paradoxical beginning in a recent Time cover story. In researching the Pill’s consequences, writer Nancy Gibbs notes that in 1952 the country’s […]