Infertility and the holidays can make for a painful combination. If you’re dealing with infertility, and getting ready to be with family and friends for the holidays, we thought that this piece by Keiko Zoll, a contributor to the Seleni Institute, might be helpful.
Anyone who has gone through infertility knows the conversation too well. It begins at a family holiday gathering, a girls’ night out or even in the checkout line, with some variation of, “So, when are you going to have kids?” Stifling your frustration and embarrassment, you choke out a response about how getting pregnant has taken longer than you’d hoped. And then they hit you with it: “Just relax! It will happen.”
For women struggling with infertility, “just relax” is perhaps the worst — and most commonly given — unsolicited advice. It’s an attempt to be helpful, but it’s based on common misconceptions about the relationship between stress and infertility, and it adds a far greater burden than it relieves.…
Click here to read the full article on The Huffington Post.
