The infertility journey presents most of us with an uncomfortable opportunity: How open should we be about our problems with others?
There's no right or wrong approach to the question. Every individual's circumstance is filled with variables, from family history to religious views to personality traits. For some, it's important to keep their infertility struggle quiet, perhaps telling only a very select few people about being in treatment. Others may find a load of stress lifts from their shoulders when they come right out and tell the world, “We're going through infertility treatment.”
In this piece on Crosscut.com, Seattle writer Cathy Merchant reveals how she and her husband have come to terms with infertility, moving down that all-too-familiar path that starts with “We're going to get pregnant!” to adding “totems and rituals and snake oil” and finally, to the choice of medically-assisted fertility treatment. As of this writing, they're still trying to have a baby, but have arrived at a somewhat resigned resolution that this isn't going the way she'd hoped – but she still has hope.
I'm honored to be in a position at Houston Fertility Center to assist people in their quest to become parents, no matter how private or public the experience.
~ Dr. Sonja Kristiansen M.D.
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