Replacing Resignation with Perseverance
When you’re in the thick of infertility, when you have no way of knowing if or when you will finally achieve a successful pregnancy, it can feel easy and necessary to just resign yourself to the fact that nothing is going to change and that all your efforts are in vain. When you’ve experienced loss, whether it’s one or many, when you have no way of knowing if or when you will finally achieve a successful pregnancy, it can feel easy and necessary to just resign yourself to the fact that it will never happen for you. Let me be clear. In today’s piece, I am in no way suggesting that stopping or pausing fertility treatments or trying to conceive is the wrong choice for everyone. That is absolutely not true. Each woman, each couple, knows individually what they can and cannot endure. Only they know the conversations they’ve had with each other and God. Only they know the physical, emotional, and mental turmoil they’ve suffered. Only they kno...