Miscarriage. I’ve heard this word many times in my life. Always feeling that it was far from me, removed from my life, something I would never experience. Sort of how I felt about infertility years before I knew the pain myself. My friends have had miscarriages, I’ve read many stories about miscarriages, even listened […]
Infertility
Curses into Blessings
An interview with author & fertility educator Julia Indichova MP: The subtitle of your second book, The Fertile Female is “How the power of longing for a child can save your life and change the world.” What do you mean by this? JI: Eighteen years ago, when I was first told that my soaring […]
My Mother’s Day Egg Retrieval
Once upon a time, I thought I would surely be a mother by now. Years ago when we started trying to build a family, I anticipated that it would happen sooner rather than later. Just one year ago, when I was preparing to embark on my first IVF treatment, I hoped that I would either […]
Celebrating Mother’s Day on the Infertility Journey
Celebrating Mother’s Day When You Are Not a Mother (Yet) Mother’s Day and Father’s Day are very difficult days on the calendar when going through infertility. How do you celebrate mothers when you yourself are grieving because you have not yet become a mother? How do you celebrate others, when you have had miscarriages […]
SURVIVOR’S GUILT
Last year, I was sitting in the Maternal Fetal Medicine department of my local hospital waiting for my 20 week ultrasound. I was very stressed. Many of my pregnancies didn’t go well, and this was an important hurdle to tackle. I was filling out the questionnaire when something hit me… How many pregnancies […]
One in Seven
I have come to realize that life is the way it is, because Hashem has chosen our paths for us. There is nothing that we can do to change who we are, but how we react to them may in fact help others; or could hurt others. The purpose of this is not to share […]
