Amazon Book Review
Finally! You and your loved one are not alone!
1/19/2010
Finally! You and your loved one are not alone! The guide for anyone who loves someone having difficulty conceiving. January 19, 2010
Finally!!! The navigation tool I have been seeking for so long in my journey to become a mother. It did not exist until now.
This beautifully written and illustrated guide is one I will recommend and share with anyone experiencing infertility. It is especially useful to share with those who love someone going through this very real loss.
Early on in my desire to conceive, I searched the available books at bookstores, the library and online. They were out-dated in their attempts to provide technical information about procedures and options. I was looking for more. I was looking for, Do you Love someone who is Infertile?
Why did I feel so alone? Was aching to become a mother and hold my own child an unhealthy obsession or a normal response to the experience? Once I conceived a child, was I wrong to want this experience again and to continue to build a family? Why did I feel judgment from those who found conceiving a child to be so easy?
This much needed book is written and organized in such a way that my experience was validated. The intense and very real emotional experience of infertility is acknowledged and normalized. The experience of infertility itself is a loss not often recognized in out society. There is no built-in support system to assist. The well-meaning but often misguided and unintentionally hurtful statements were frequent. I needed support and I did not know how to ask for it. This guide clearly provides ways to create the much-needed support system and to avoid the often resulting isolation.
For so long I felt alone in my desire to become a mother. How did my childhood dream become such a primitive desire and need? As I read this book, I began to realize and truly believe that I was not alone.
Each time I saw a mother and child, I ached to experience what typical mothers take for granted each day. How could I celebrate with then as I grieved my own loss?...If only I had found this book when relationships with my friends became difficult and strained. When my words failed me, sharing this book would have been a natural way to help my friend know how to support me.
This book provides real strategies for supporting those we love who are experiencing the painful process of infertility. Now we do not have to feel alone. Now those that love us have strategies for loving and supporting us through our journey. Thank you!!!
"I needed support and I did not know how to ask for it."