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…

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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.…

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International 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…

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What I Did — and Didn’t Do — in 2025 as a Childfree Not by Choice Woman And How it Can Help You, Too

2025 was a big year. Things were accomplished. Things were not. There were detours along the way. But as a Childfree Not by Choice (CFNBC) woman, this was the first year that felt truly different.…

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Why Don’t You Just Adopt?

When I was going through IVF—and in the thick of not succeeding—I was depressed in a way I didn’t think was possible. People thought they were being comforting when they asked me, “Why don’t you…

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