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Is Anyone Out There?

© Jaime Ervi

As I sat on my bed surrounded by insurance papers, referrals, booklets from doctors and my own infertility books, I couldn't help but wonder if I was the only one who was doing this. Does anyone else read book after book on fertility? Was I the only one who got up religiously every morning to get a basal body temperature? Did anyone else in the world cry when their period started up each month? Are their other women out there struggling with the same worries, fears, and agonies? Are their ANY WOMEN ANYWHERE who have beat this thing? Some days I just feel so alone. I feel like I am the only woman who is dealing with this because it seems every other woman on the planet is pregnant! I was having one of these weeks this past week and I know many of you have had similar weeks. It is one of the struggles of infertility - the fight with depression.

Sometimes to keep going we need inspiration. We need to know that someone else has fought this battle and won. To know that some family out there didn't find the results we all pray for (a baby) but they found peace! It is so calming just to know that there is a woman out there going through the same thing you are and that she is staying positive and hopeful. I thought that I would pass some of this encouragement on to you in the form of three special web sites. Each web site tells the story of one woman's struggle with infertility.

My Story of Infertility is the story of one woman's battle with infertility. In a completely open and honest manner she tells of her newly discovered desire to have children and the battle she is now fighting to conceive them, voicing the fears and frustrations that we all have gone through. This web page reads as a story of one woman's battle to conceive a child. Through a disappointing first ob/gyn appointment, through painful surgery, to the beginning of clomid, she tells her story with peace and hope for the future.

My Journal is absolutely wonderful it is a monthly journal kept by a woman going through infertility. It is different from My Story of Infertility because this woman finds her peace not in pregnancy but in the end she finds her peace in adoption! The journal starts in February of 1997 with her husband and her decision to try and have a baby. From there on she takes us on a month by month journey of her fears, cares, discoveries,

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