I have wanted to be a mom since forever. I played house and babysat while I was a little girl, became a teacher, and married a wonderful husband. I was ready to be a mom and everyone who knew me agreed. So when my husband and I decided it was time to start our family we were surprised to have some infertility problems. After many unsuccessful IUI attempts we found success with IVF and we were on our way to starting our family.
Although going through infertility was not easy for me I think it has made me a better person and wife. Infertility taught me a lot about the importance of expressing your feelings. I have never been one to share my feelings freely with others, I tended to keep everything bottled up inside and felt I can handle this on my own. I started off sharing my feelings with my husband about how sad I was about the failed pregnancy attempt and guess what although I was still sad I felt a little bit better knowing that I was not alone.
Infertility also showed me the importance of communication. At first the only people who knew that we were struggling were my husband and I. We had family members asking us about when we were going to have a child and we would just kind of laugh it off. After a while it was very hard and painful to keep being reminded that we were not pregnant, so we decided to tell our parents about what was going on and that we would let them know when anything changed. It was the best thing we could have done the questions were gone and we were in charge of what information we wanted to share. I probably shared more of what we were going through than my husband, but talking about it made me feel better. By the time we started IVF I was also talking about it with my close friends and it was very nice to have their support.
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