An Oasis in a Barren Land

(Originally posted: 2.10.11)
Just thought I would explain a little about this blog and about what myself. I am married to an amazing man and we have had agony of dealing with infertility for about 5 years now. Throughout this time I have made some amazing friends as we struggled together with infertility, testing, miscarriages and waiting..oh, the waiting...I have recently moved away from these friends and miss them so much. In exploring infertility and issues that surround infertility I found that there are A LOT of books and sites about how to get pregnant and infertility treatments but there was not very much about just coping.


I don't want this blog to be about treatment options, though feel free to share your experience! I want it to be a place where we -- those barren, broken, waiting, hoping, infertile -- can come together and know that we are not alone. The things that we are feeling, the thoughts that we are thinking, the frustrations we are having are normal and others are there too. Infertility canbe an isolating place. No one seems to be able to understand unless they too have been where we have been.


Share your experience. Share your sorrow, you hopes, your tears, you anger, your laughter, your frustrations. Just share. You are not alone. We are not alone. It's okay to just be surviving and coping. I would like this blog to be a place where we can come together in the midst of incredible pain and sorrow, almost un bearably so, and just share without worrying about what others might say or think of you. Worried that others might think you are uncaring if you refuse to attend yet another baby shower, or that you are crazy if you cry because a commercial features a mother and baby. I've been there.


Hopefully, in the land of infertility, this barren place, we can know together that we are not alone.