I have to admit. I’ve had lit­tle time to blog lately. Plus there really hasn’t been any excit­ing news or any­thing wor­thy I’ve felt I’ve needed to say. Which is what makes “step­ping out” of my blog silence this week espe­cially important.

Yes peo­ple, it is National Infer­til­ity Aware­ness Week (NIAW) again. This year the theme is “Don’t Ignore Infertility.”

I’ve writ­ten about my infer­til­ity jour­ney so many times that it feels like I’m a bro­ken record. And since I haven’t had time to write … I think the best way I can cel­e­brate this week is to re-​​post some of my older posts that fol­low this year’s theme.

I hope you enjoy these “oldies but goodies” …

So here’s my first one … Iron­i­cally one writ­ten back in 2010 when RESOLVE began their cam­paign to stop infer­til­ity unaware­ness. (Orig­i­nal link can be found here.)

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If you have a moment, please watch the video below and then click over to the RESOLVE web­site to read about what you can do to raise aware­ness about Infertility.

Here you should be able to find the link to the SELF Mag­a­zine arti­cle that I talked about in my pre­vi­ous post.

As a per­son who is liv­ing Child-​​Free after Infer­til­ity, I think it’s extremely impor­tant for both the gen­eral pop­u­la­tion and the Infer­til­ity Com­mu­nity to be aware that Infer­til­ity is a dis­ease that can­not be sim­ply “cured” by Assisted Repro­duc­tive Ther­apy (ART), preg­nancy or adoption.

Infer­til­ity is a dis­ease that affects the liveli­hood of 1 in 8 Amer­i­can cou­ples. And most of all, not all Infer­til­ity sto­ries are are suc­cess stories.

Regard­less, I believe that every Infer­tile — includ­ing for­mer Infer­tiles (those who have now become parents) — should voice their strug­gles (or past strug­gles) to oth­ers. The only way for Infer­til­ity to have a VOICE is to speak about it, loudly & proudly.

We should not be ashamed of what we’ve been through. We should no longer hold our strug­gles and emo­tional pain internally.

We should no longer keep our Infer­til­ity a secret …

So while you’re on the RESOLVE web­site, I also encour­age you to take the pledge.

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And now a mes­sage from the Exec­u­tive Direc­tor of RESOLVE

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