How to be good friends with an infertile

This one is especially for family and friends wanting to be helpful and not another source of stress for a woman or couple dealing with infertility. Infertiles come in different flavors. 1. Your eternal optimist / newbie / completely uninvolved infertile … 2. Your longer term / highly involved infertile … 3. Then you get the older timers, who’ve been doing this so long it just becomes part of who they are. … [...]

September 28th, 2009 | Tags: | Category: For Family and Friends | Leave a comment

Infertility Humour: What would people say to you if you were paraplegic instead of infertile?

Given the kiwi tradition of not confronting insensitive people directly like they do in American soap operas, if you are being subjected to FUCAs (family/friend unhelpful comment attacks), why not paste this into an email and get the message across with a bit of humour? ;) So, what do you think people would say to you if you were paraplegic instead of infertile? … [...]

September 27th, 2009 | Tags: , | Category: For Family and Friends, Infertility Humour | 2 comments