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Society says that I am not a real woman if I can’t conceive. Society says that I am worthless unless I have children.

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I never knew how hard some couples try, only to become disappointed month after month, year after year. Now I do.

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You cannot even begin to comprehend why, of all people, you suffer from infertility.

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The solution to these problems was a hysterectomy. So on my 32nd birthday, I went in for surgery, praying that this was the final step to my healing.

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I have been thinking about you a lot lately. I don’t really know if we will be going back for another round of IVF. Your siblings are triplets and it is kind of a lot right now.

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You are expensive and exhausting physically, emotionally, and mentally. Infertility, you drowned my heart in disappointment and agony. And truthfully, it was pretty painful every time I heard the words “I’m pregnant” from someone other than myself.

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Infertility happens and it is not easy to deal with at any age under any circumstances.

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Words have cut me deeply but words have also restored me. I hope that I can be the one to reach out to someone suffering silently though month after month of heartbreaking treatments and remind them that, even if a baby never comes, they are truly enough.