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Infertility & Identity: Feeling Whole When Your Body Won’t Cooperate Infertility doesn’t just steal babies — sometimes it steals your sense of self. Suddenly your body feels like the enemy, and everyone else’s uterus seems to be winning the lottery. If someone had handed me a guidebook about infertility, it would have warned me about identity. Not just the medical side — the blood...

The Infertility Mind Games: How Your Brain Turns Against You Ever feel like your own brain is plotting against you? Infertility has a way of turning otherwise rational adults into obsessive, Googling, hormone-fuelled detectives of their own uterus. No one warns you that infertility isn’t just something happening to your body — it’s something that moves in, sets up camp in your brain, and...

10 Lies People Tell About Infertility (and Why They Hurt) Infertility isn’t just a medical struggle—it’s a social, emotional, and sometimes completely absurd minefield. People mean well, they really do… but some of the things they say? They hurt. A lot. Here’s a list of 10 common lies people tell about infertility—and what I’m really thinking when I hear them.

It’s not just disappointment. It’s grief that settles into your bones, a hollow ache that follows you everywhere. You carry the weight of every cycle, every failed attempt, every dollar spent, every hope you dared to hold onto.

Infertility doesn’t just break hearts—it breaks connections. You start to notice things you never expected. Friends you thought would be there suddenly disappear. Calls go unanswered. Invitations stop coming. Some of them might still care deep down, but it doesn’t matter. You’re no longer part of the circle, and the silence hits harder than any test result ever could.

The Brutal Truth About IVF: What You Really Endure If someone had handed me a guidebook before I started this journey, I would have read it cover to cover. And not just once. Because infertility is not just about not getting pregnant. It’s a full-body, full-mind, emotional demolition derby. Let’s break it down — raw, unfiltered, and with a touch of sarcastic humour (because if...

The Silent Grief No One Prepares You For: The Reality of Infertility Infertility is not just a medical diagnosis.It is a quiet grief.A private heartbreak.A constant ache that lives in the background of your life while the world carries on as if nothing is wrong. In Australia, one in six couples will experience infertility. That statistic alone should make this conversation louder — and...