NIAW comes to a close

Last Sunday I announced a challenge to all my friends to think about during this past week. To take time to reach out to someone dealing with the pain of infertility during "National Infertility Week", that 1 in 8 of us are living childless not due to choice and suffer everyday with empty arms. To think about what you could do for someone dealing with this pain. I hope some of you responded to this challenge. I thank those of you who did.

For us personally I am saddened, as NIAW came to a end yesterday, that not one of my non-infertility friends/family offered up any words of encouragement to Scott or myself all week long. Most all of you know our story, our journey this past 9yrs, our recent pain over two miscarriages, but during this week we heard not one I am praying for you still, or thinking about you two, a card, a kind word, what can I do to help, how are you doing, etc.

Everyday Scott and I deal with the pain of the disease of Infertility. It doesn't ever go away, we don't just get over it, we can't just adopt, there is no easy cure. What you take for granted we tirelessly save every single penny for, go through countless invasive procedures, medications for just a glimmer of hope.

It maybe that you have a hard time really understanding what we feel so tonight when you hold your child close think about what your life would be like if they where not in it then think about those who deal with infertility and what our pain much be like.

This week has given more resolve to continue my mission to speak out for the thousands that have the disease of infertility, who hide it, who cry alone each month when the results are neg, who deal silently w/mc after mc, those with secondary infertility, those now dealing with difficult pregnancies after years of infertility, with failed adoptions, those who put on a mask when another friend announces their pregnancy and tells them how they don't want another child when all we wish for is to have one and many many other stories I hear every day. It's time the issue comes out of the closet, so to speak.

Infertility is as important as any other disease, we are as Important!!

As NIAW comes to a close, I want to tell all my IF friends around the world, I love you all, I pray for you daily, I am so thankful to have each of you in my lives. Thank you so much for supporting our fundraisers. I am so happy to have been able to bless many of you with wristbands and encouraging items. We need to continue to support each other and not be silent. This last week was all about that. Infertility is Real as my friend Cassie would put it! Together we can make a difference and together we can continue to advocate for better treatments, mandatory insurance coverage, adoption lowing costs/tax breaks, acknowledgement of Infertility and the pain of so many. Have faith my friends and Believe as it is God's will to bless each and every one of us with a child, it says so in his word, everyone who dealt with infertility in the Bible and prayed their prayers where answered, he wants us to be fruitful and multiple. Don't give up hope! Keep praying and believing! In the meantime take time to love yourself, find a purpose to go on each day, God allowed us to have infertility for a greater good, he knows how strong we each are, pray and ask him to show you how you can serve others through this. You may not see the light at the end of the tunnel now but there is one and you will make it to the end with a happy ending!


"Infertility is an invisible disease, one that touches the lives of 7.3 million people in this country. Our invisibility makes it easy for others to dismiss our concerns, our emotions, our struggles – and a cultural silence is cast upon this patient population as a result." ~ Keiko Zoll Infertility Advocate.