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Guest Post! An Awesome Infertility Prayer

Staying Focused On What Matters with Infertility Prayer Last week I had the distinct pleasure of perusing Lesli Westfall’s fantastic site called Dancing Upon Barren Land. Full of grace, love, and hope, Lesli’s site offers “Spiritual Nourishment for the Infertility Road.” Not only does Lesli offer gorgeous, heartfelt infertility prayer, she shares excellent resources such

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Take The Sting Out of Baby News and Showers Pt. 3

Infertility Won’t Define Me: Making It Stick Now that you have given yourself some baby news triage and you’ve screamed “infertility won’t define me” from the top of your lungs, it’s time to make this your truth, permanently. Anyone can chant a mantra for a while and pretend to feel better, but that’s not what

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Take The Sting Out of Baby News and Showers Pt. 2

The Heavy Lifting Begins Once you’ve given yourself some Baby News Triage, it’s time to get to work. Getting to the point where hearing about someone else’s pregnancy, or receiving an invite to a baby shower, doesn’t leave you doubled over in pain (unless of course, like me, you have a genetic aversion to mind-numbing

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Take The Sting Out of Baby News and Showers Pt. 1

Go Ahead, Admit It Aaaah, pregnancy and birth announcements–the bane of anyone living with infertility’s existence. While we suffer silently and try to conceal our pain with a brave face, others are shouting from the rooftops about their baby joy. When your nursery is agonizingly vacant and you’ve suffered yet another kick to the shin

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Talking About Infertility: Lips Sealed or Big Reveal?

A Journey Out Loud or Comfortably Mum? As if navigating the reality of infertility wasn’t challenging enough, the question of what to tell family, friends, co-workers, and other inquiring minds when the stork has been conspicuously absent from making a delivery at your house, cruelly adds to the vertiginous heap of anxiety already piling up

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