Infertility: Miscarriage, adoption, IVF, and twins, oh my!
by BabyCenter Guest Blogger posted in Mom Stories
To recognize National Infertility Awareness Week, we bring you this post from Melissa of Okayest Mom.
Have you struggled with infertility" I understand.
Have you had miscarriages" I empathize.
Have you wanted to run over the ?Expectant Mother Parking? signs in parking lots" Me too.
Have you gone through IVF" The adoption process" I get it.
After having been infertile for almost a decade, I now finally have three small children, none of whom were created in my own body (one is adopted from someone else?s body; two are from petri dishes).
I can empathize with those of you who are begging for children, and also those of you who are begging for five minutes away from your children (even if you have to hide in the bathroom with that jar of Trader Joe?s Cookie Butter and an US Weekly). I know what it?s like to cry at a poster of a baby in Walmart because you desperately want one yourself, and I know what it?s like to cry because your children won?t stop crying. After finally having had success with adoption and with IVF (twins!) within the space of two years, I can totally identify with the adoptive moms and the moms of multiples.
I know what it?s like to have black and white children as my three boys are of various races and genetic makeup.
I know what it?s like to wait years for a baby. I also know what it?s like to bring a baby home all of a sudden, after a birthmother picked me only three days prior.
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