I Was Pregnant for 3 Weeks
***TRIGGER WARNING**** The brief moment I finally became pregnant after years of IVF In 2014, I was pregnant for three weeks. It was my first round of IVF using donor eggs from Greece. When we…
View Post National Infertility Awareness Week: A Different Kind of Strength
Every year, National Infertility Awareness Week arrives with a familiar message: raise awareness, share stories, break the silence. And yet, there is still a part of the story that often goes unspoken. Not the beginning.…
View PostInternational Women’s Day, and the Woman Who Helped Me Survive
On infertility grief, therapy, and rebuilding life as a woman who is Childfree Not By Choice. The Women We Celebrate Every year on March 8, International Women’s Day fills my Instagram feed with messages about…
View PostThe Jennifer Aniston Effect
The Jennifer Aniston Effect is what happens when one woman’s truth makes millions of others visible. After twenty years of speculation about when Jennifer Aniston would have children—or why she had not yet become a…
View PostWhat “Failure” Means to an IVF Woman — Why That Word Hurts
I’ve always hated the word “failure”. It’s sharp. Final. Heavy. And as a former IVF woman and a perfectionist, I hate it even more. For years, my life revolved around cycles, medications, numbers, hope. When…
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