Infertility Memoir

The international sensation that illuminates the experiences women are supposed to hide - from addiction, anger, sexual assault, and infertility to joy, sensuality, and love. In this dazzling debut, Emilie Pine speaks to the events that have marked her life - those emotional disruptions for which our society has no adequate language, at once bittersweet, clandestine, and ordinary. She writes with radical honesty on the unspeakable grief of infertility, on caring for an alcoholic parent, on taboos around female bodies and female pain, on sexual violence and violence against the self.

When N. West Moss finds herself bleeding uncontrollably in the middle of a writing class, she manages to drive herself to the nearest hospital. Doctors are baffled, but eventually a diagnosis—uterine hemangioma—is rendered and a hysterectomy is scheduled. In prose both lyrical and unsparing, Moss takes us along through illness, relapse, and recovery. And as her thoughts turn to her previous struggles with infertility, she reflects on kin and kinship and on what it means to leave a legacy.

"When are you having kids?" "Why don't you just adopt?" These innocent, well-meaning questions are ones everyone asks couples, especially women of a certain age. To those one in eight couples who undergo infertility treatments, these questions do not feel at all innocent or well-meaning, but invalidating to the battle they're fighting and the difficulty and pain involved in the adoption process. This is the story of how Justine Froelker redefined her childless life and learned to be okay, whole, and happy with a full child-free life.

Whack.... At three in the morning Gina was sound asleep, yet somehow she was smacked in the head. She looked over at her husband, thinking perhaps he accidentally rolled over and flopped his arm on top of her, but he was sleeping soundly and facing the opposite direction. She turned to the other side and glaring back at her was her eight-year-old child.

The road to parenthood can be long and bumpy. Emaline Ashe's real-life memoir shares an intimate look into her emotional journey to become a mom. She and her husband Liam were a young and healthy couple when they started trying for a child. And then, unexplained infertility hit them like a ton of bricks. After many years of unsuccessful medical treatments, Emaline and Liam embarked on a alternate path to become parents. This led to an unexpected open adoption. As their newborn son grew, so did their relationship with their bonus family.

After a decade of trying to become a mother - 11 rounds of unsuccessful IVF, multiple miscarriages and a pregnancy which proved almost fatal - Jessica Hepburn knew it was time to do something different. So she decided to swim the 21 miles across the English Channel - no easy feat, especially for someone with an aversion to exercise who couldn't swim very well.

Throughout the book, Alicia takes listeners on her transformative journey of overcoming these obstacles. She shares her moments of despair, but also her unwavering determination to never lose faith in God's plan for her life. With the support of her loving husband and a renewed sense of spirituality, Alicia discovers the strength to confront her doubts and find hope in the midst of darkness.

Having been told by doctors that due to Izzy's polycystic ovarian syndrome they would have difficulty conceiving - and after two years of trying - Izzy and Harry turned to IVF. Izzy's aim drawing on her own experience is to break through some of the taboos surrounding miscarriage, IVF and fertility issues. This brutally honest and deeply personal account will acknowledge the struggles that so many couples go through but will ultimately focus on the positive life-changing and remarkable results that IVF can yield.

Infertility is a long and complicated journey filled with expectations and dreams. Hoping in those expectations and dreams is our natural tendency, but maybe there is another way. Dive deep with Lindsay into the process of her pursuing motherhood while growing her faith in the goodness of God, despite loss and hardship.

One woman’s struggle through 3 stillbirths, 3 miscarriages and 3 healthy, successful pregnancies, all within 10 years…

From the beginning, we always wanted a family. We also knew we wanted to adopt. Life took us on a pretty crazy adventure to get from point A to point B. My story features infertility, adoption, and the many elements in-between. This is the story of how at 32 years of age, we not only gained victory over infertility, but found ourselves adopting a teenager out of the foster care system.