Does struggling with your fertility leave you feeling like you are trapped?

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With everyone else appearing to be getting on with their lives, whilst you stay caught in limbo. That place of wondering whether you should still have hope, or if it’s time to give up on your desire to have a baby.

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It’s not fair is it? It feels like everyone else is getting pregnant with ease, or maybe worse, all of your other friends struggling with fertility issues are one by one getting pregnant too. You want to feel happy for them but with every pregnancy or birth announcement you see, it feels like someone is twisting the knife ever deeper into your heart. The guilt you feel about this adds to your pain and you feel forced to put your fake smile on and pretend that everything is ok.

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You wonder if there is anybody out there who can truly understand what it is that you are going through. Even when you make an effort to explain you feel misunderstood and perhaps even angry at your friends, family and colleagues, for their ill-informed words that they think should make you feel better.

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Wh​​​​at’s even more unfair, is that there is a sad and cruel twist to the impact that your fertility journey is having on your life. which is that the emotional pain it is causing can be further harming your chances of becoming pregnant too.

If this all sounds painfully too familiar there is something very important that I want you to know.

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It doesn’t have to be this way.