Normal parents are our well-meaning friends and families, the people who effortlessly procreate and are able celebrate others’ joyful pregnancy and birth announcements. Normal parents are the strangers in the store whose innocent question about your baby’s red hair quietly reminds you that you couldn’t pass on your own DNA. Normal parents are the fertile population that doesn’t understand that having a baby cures childlessness—but not infertility.
It’s National Infertility Awareness Week, and this year’s theme is #FlipTheScript. Why Am I So Open About Egg Donation? I’m…
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I’m honoured to have been approached by the ART of Infertility to write a post about parenting after infertility. Here’s…
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There’s been some recent talk online about how having a baby magically erases the pain of infertility. I really hope…
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