Family Planning: Diabetes Edition
When are you having a baby? Asking this question, while never actually being an appropriate question to ask anyone, can bring up a lot of different emotions, especially for someone with a chronic health condition that is greatly impacted by pregnancy, like diabetes.
Single Parenthood by Choice: The Why
Why would anybody choose to raise a child alone? That is the question that society has for those that have chosen to have a family on their own. Why? In a society where we have made partnership and parenthood synonymous, asking ‘Why?’ is the natural response.
Infertility: Are You Pregnant Yet?
The dreaded question asked to every person who has announced that they are trying to conceive. The question that triggers anxiety, embarrassment, shame, exhaustion, anger, sadness, and heartbreak. It’s asked in a variety of ways... “Any updates you want to tell me?” … “When is this happening?” … “Any success yet?” … “What’s taking so long?” and this list goes on and on.
Infertility: Mother’s Day
Mother’s Day, the holiday dreaded by several facing infertility. It’s the holiday that reminds the infertile of the thing they have yet to achieve but yearn for the most – motherhood.
Infertility: The Heartbreak of One
The dreaded question asked to every person who has announced that they are trying to conceive. The question that triggers anxiety, embarrassment, shame, exhaustion, anger, sadness, and heartbreak. It’s asked in a variety of ways... “Any updates you want to tell me?” … “When is this happening?” … “Any success yet?” … “What’s taking so long?” and this list goes on and on.
Infertility: Silent Blame
These are the kinds of responses women receive when they struggle with infertility. When they open their hearts to their inner circle and question why their bodies will not cooperate with their efforts; they get told their thoughts are to blame. They get not so subtle condemnations that proclaim they have brought infertility onto themselves. They get blamed.