Nervous. Excited. Scared. Hopeful. The range of emotions is complex with infertility and its treatment. I was still in a state of somewhat disbelief, that now I officially joined the 6.1 million women experiencing infertility, but eager to get treatment underway. I was hopeful for an explanation…and a solution to our problem, yet at the time found myself struggling with the idea of medical intervention to conceive – I wanted to stay as near to “natural conception” as possible, but knew it was’t in our cards. Eventually, it dawned on me that we, as lifeforms, have an innate calling to reproduce – whether that happens through conceiving in your bed at home or through treatment in your doctor’s office – we are trying to fulfill a biological destiny and it doesn’t get any more natural than that.
A supporting environment for the fertility challenged.