Any dictionary will tell you that infertility is the inability to conceive or carry a child. But the dictionary leaves out the part about infertility being a completely devastating experience for any person, man or woman, striving to have a child. Infertility is sleepless nights, frustration, grief, anger, shattered hearts, broken dreams, and a flood of tears. It's a thousand medical appointments, tests, and needles. It's thousands of dollars in treatment and breathlessly waiting for that second little line to appear on the test, only to be broken all over again.
Infertility is emotional. It's frightening. And it's far too common. Close to ten percent of women in the United States alone suffer from infertility. Nearly the same number of men suffer infertility. Sometimes, the cause is known. Often it is not.
For us, infertility began with a diagnosis of PCOS (polycystic ovarian syndrome). It's continued for a combined eighteen years, a couple of miscarriages between us, surgery, and countless hundreds of dollars in medication and treatment. And infertility isn't over for either of us yet. It may never be.
But we share a common desire: To finally hold our children in our arms. And we're helping each other along the way to realizing that lifelong dream.
We are Ayden and Jayme, life long friends and mothers-in-waiting, and we suffer from infertility. But we aren't defined by infertility. And our futures won't be held hostage to infertility either.
Welcome to our journey.
Infertility is emotional. It's frightening. And it's far too common. Close to ten percent of women in the United States alone suffer from infertility. Nearly the same number of men suffer infertility. Sometimes, the cause is known. Often it is not.
For us, infertility began with a diagnosis of PCOS (polycystic ovarian syndrome). It's continued for a combined eighteen years, a couple of miscarriages between us, surgery, and countless hundreds of dollars in medication and treatment. And infertility isn't over for either of us yet. It may never be.
But we share a common desire: To finally hold our children in our arms. And we're helping each other along the way to realizing that lifelong dream.
We are Ayden and Jayme, life long friends and mothers-in-waiting, and we suffer from infertility. But we aren't defined by infertility. And our futures won't be held hostage to infertility either.
Welcome to our journey.
xoxo,
Ayden and Jayme
Ayden and Jayme
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