Dear Someday Baby, I Long For You
Dear Someday Baby, Sometimes it feels as if I’ll never get to meet you. You see, we’ve been trying for you, for quite a while now. …
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This is Infertility
I see you. I see you buying the 50-pack of ovulation sticks from Amazon, because your cycle is never regular. I see you using those sticks…
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To the Woman With an Only Child Who’s Struggling to Fit in
Sometimes I wish I could create this pact with all of my new mom friends. Maybe you had kids easily and can’t relate at all. Please read on so that…
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When All You Want For Christmas is a Baby
When I picture a mother’s love or a child’s joy, I am flooded with memories of cozy Christmas mornings that my parents planned out month…
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To the Moms and Dads Who Suffer Loss: You Are Not Alone
You are walking the hardest path anyone will ever walk—living this life without your children. Your losses have come in many shapes and sizes.…
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I Had Someone Else’s Baby: 5 Truths About Surrogacy
“I could never carry a baby for nine months and then just give it away.” That’s what I have heard over and over again from the time…
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Where the Fear Lives
You’re tucked in and prayers are said. Last sips of water, last hugs, last kissing hands, and I have to pull away and close the door because I…
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Infertility Has Refined My Marriage In Ways I Never Expected
Infertility gives marriage a brand new meaning, one most couples don’t anticipate ever having to deal with. It’s not part of the vision or dream…
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I May Not Have My Own Kids, But I’m Still a Mom
Ever since I was a little girl, I’ve wanted to be a mom. When I close my eyes, I can picture those early memories—me toting around my little…
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Why I Hid My Postpartum Anxiety
After a failed vasectomy reversal, a second successful reversal, two failed frozen embryo transfers and six (in total) IVF with ICSI procedures, and…
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