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Are you frustrated with family and friends who keep asking about your fertility treatments, if you’re pregnant yet, or how you’re coping with infertility as a couple? I know I am…so I created a short list of ways to deal with people who keep asking how my baby-making efforts are going. Before the tips, a quip: “If we [...] The holiday season isn’t happy or fun for many couples coping with infertility or women who can’t get pregnant. These suggestions for enjoying Christmas and Thanksgiving — not just surviving the holiday season — may help infertile men and women cope. “Isn’t it funny that at Christmas something in you gets so lonely for – I don’t know what exactly, [...] One of my readers is starting to talk about her infertility, telling people that she can’t get pregnant because of endometriosis and fibroids. This, I believe, will make her feel better and start the healing process… “I’ve got endometriosis and fibroids – and also had a failed IVF,” she wrote in the comments section of Dealing With the Disappointment [...] If you know a person or couple coping with infertility, you may not know what to say or talk about! So, here are a few tips on what NOT to say to couples coping with infertility, plus six tips on what TO say. Before the tips, here’s an excerpt from I Am More Than My Infertility: “Many women [...] Dealing with the disappointment of not getting pregnant is hard all the time – but it can be devastating to be coping with infertility on Mother’s Day! Here are five ways to deal with sadness because you can’t get pregnant, on this day in May. Before the tips, here’s a quick quip: “Remember sadness is always temporary,” [...] Dr Phil responds to a letter in Oprah Magazine from a woman who is childfree. She never got pregnant not because of infertility, but by choice, and her friend insulted her for not having kids. I’m sharing her letter and Dr Phil’s response here, because he gave great advice about coping with other people’s responses to not [...] Here are some tips on talking to people who are coping with infertility from a woman who knows the subject intimately. Knowing what to and not to say to a woman who can’t get pregnant – or a man who can’t get his partner pregnant – can be a challenge. “Remember that infertility is above all [...] Here are five tips for overcoming the stigma of infertility, because telling people that you’re coping with male or female infertility can be one of the hardest “confessions” to make. Though it feels like one, it’s not a confession! “I’ve found that most people don’t truly understand infertility or how it impacts one’s spirit,” writes Kelly Damron in [...] Here are five tips for not resenting your pregnant friends, because when you can’t get pregnant or it’s taking too long to conceive a baby, you may notice that your friends and family are especially fertile! One friend of mine is pregnant with her second child, another friend’s husband just had a vasectomy because three kids is enough, [...] Knowing what to say – and what not to say – when someone has a miscarriage is difficult. Here, a mother of two describes how she coped with two miscarriages. She also offers some “do’s” and “don’t’s” that will help if you feel helpless when someone you know suffers a miscarriage. “It was my very first pregnancy, [...] |
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