Many of us grow up dreaming about the day when we will have children. The forces that contribute to these desires are complex, powerful, spiritual, and sometimes unexplainable. Our longing for children is a deep primal need, and being unable to conceive or carry a pregnancy to term can be devas­tating.

Infertility can rock our very foundation—our sense of control over our futures, our faith in our bodies, and our feelings about ourselves as women.

I’ve been infertile since I was 22 and had a hysterectomy. . . … More