A friend called me in tears today. “Yet another friend just told me she’s pregnant” she cried. My friend has been doing IVF for years, but this friend fell pregnant quickly and easily. It hit her like a punch to the chest. “It’s not fair. It only took her a couple of months.” I understood instantly. Her pain took me straight back to the years before we finally welcomed our son through gestational surrogacy . I remember every pregnancy announcement from that time with absolute

When you’re in the thick of infertility treatment, it can feel like your life becomes one long stretch of waiting. First, you wait months just to see an IVF specialist. Then comes the endless fertility tests. Once testing is done, you start your IVF cycle medication and wait for your egg collection. After that, you wait for your embryos to be created. Finally, you have your embryo transfer. It’s waiting layered on waiting. And if you’ve been through the gut-wrenching experien

*As featured in IVF babble. The holiday season is often a time of joy and celebration. It’s filled with laughter around the dinner table and the magic of children opening presents from Santa on Christmas morning. But for those with infertility, Christmas can feel like a magnifying glass on what’s missing. It can be a painful reminder of the one thing you desperately want and would do anything to have.   As we know, infertility is often an invisible grief and it’s suffered in

So much of infertility is outside your control. It’s a medical condition that affects millions worldwide. But one of the very few things...

*as featured in Wish for a Baby Australia “It makes you think you can’t get pregnant because you are not worthy.” “I felt sick and...