Friday, March 30, 2012

It’s Almost National Infertility Awareness Week!


It’s almost National Infertility Awareness Week!

National Infertility Awareness Week is very important to me. Chris and I have been diagnosed with male factor infertility and have been trying actively for 3 years to get pregnant. Infertility is a topic that many feel should not be made public nor should it be talked about in a public setting. I strongly disagree with this mindset. I respect everyone for their view points on topics, but if you wish to be open about this topic, then you should be able to be open about it without any backlash. My reasonings are simple, if someone can openly talk about their pregnancies, share their birth stories or talk about any of the unpleasant sides of pregnancy and parenting from symptoms to poopy diapers, then we should also be able to talk about infertility and the inability to get and/or stay pregnant. 

National Infertility Awareness Week is April 22nd to 28th and the point of the week is to bring awareness to the struggles and costs (emotionally, physically and financially) associated with infertility. In honor of this week and my struggles as an infertile, I have decided to go public on facebook about our struggles and create and share this blog as a chance to inform family and friends of the hidden side of infertility and its effects on those that deal with it on a daily basis. 

So thank you for checking out the blog! Bookmark this blog and check back as I plan to have a series of posts about infertility. My goal was to have a themed post once a week about a common misconception of infertility. One post per week leading up to NIAW and one post a day during all of NIAW. I may post more than that, but right now this is my goal.  

Stick around and check it out!

Love and hugs, 
Kimberly
 

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