Family Building Stories

Get real-life perspectives from our community, highlighting the many different paths a fertility and family building journey can take.

 

Why I Walk

by Kerri Kivolowitz Infertility (IF) is a diagnosis that carries with it loss, isolation, guilt, doubt, depression, and surprisingly, hope; the ever-twinkling hope that this time it will be different. Six years ago, my husband and I decided we were ready to...

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Why I Will Walk

I walk because I know the struggle of infertility firsthand… In my late 20s I was told that it was doubtful for me to support a pregnancy to full term. The culprit: Uterine Fibroids- noncancerous tumors. After receiving this diagnosis, I put the thought of...

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A Story of Hope

Walk around any city or town on a sunny day, and you’ll see numerous pregnant families. Some of those families may even have 1 or 2 children in tow. Go to a family gathering, and you’ll see your relative’s kids chasing after one another. Maybe they’re...

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Crashing Waves

In the mid 1990s, when I burst from the closet at 16 years old, waving my rainbow flag, I began my long journey out as a LGBTQ person. I was, all at once, alive for the first time in my life. I recall the moment when I finally allowed myself this identity. A...

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Painful awareness of otherness

April 19-25 is National Infertility Awareness Week #YouAreNotAlone I teach on two college campuses, so I’ve been hearing a lot of talk about microaggressions over the last year. Microaggressions are the tiny little pin-pricks, usually unintentional,...

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Lessons to My Pre-IVF Self

By Sue McCarron I’m a proud mother of an IVF-created 18-month old who’s considering jumping back into the fertility treatment game to go for number two. Over these past few weeks, I’ve spent a lot of time mentally revisiting the land of needles and endless...

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Take Care Of Yourself

By: Katie O’Connor, Founder, Shine: A Light On Fertility We’ve all heard it, “Take care of yourself.” But when going through infertility treatments it couldn’t be more important to take those four little words to heart. But what does take care of yourself...

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