Infertility Books
A while back, I wrote a post about how I felt about not succeeding once again in trying to get pregnant. This post got me to thinking of what books are out there regarding infertility - specifically, books about infertility and faith and books that had infertile characters.
I found 2 novels with infertile characters - The Baby Trail by Sinead Moriarty (of which I'm just starting to read now) and Inconceivable by Ben Elton (which still hasn't been delivered yet and won't until August). I looked at a few bookstores and none of them had either of these books, so I ordered them from Amazon along with the 2 books below while using my new Amazon credit card which allowed me $30 off my first purchase!
Anyway, I found several books discussing infertility and faith, but I ended up purchasing Empty Womb, Aching Heart by Marlo Schalesky (of which I just finished reading). I also purchased a book called The Infertility Cure by Randine Lewis.
The rest of this entry is about my thoughts on "Empty Womb, Aching Heart".
So many of the stories sounded so similar to my own in that I had the same thoughts as many of the women who shared their stories in this book. The only story that I was not comfortable with is the one where one of the women became mom to two women who felt that they had to leave a "lesbian lifestyle" in order to be loved by God. I just don't agree with that.
Anyway, I had a lot of the same thoughts that these women and/or men had, like maybe we started trying too late; why do certain people get to have multiple children and I can't seem to have one?; why do people who will neglect their children get to have children?; what did I do to deserve this?; I'm not a "real" woman if I can't have kids; there are pregnant women everywhere!; maybe God knows I'll be a bad mother; perhaps my husband should go find someone else who is fertile to give him a child; and why give me the desire to have children if I am just going to be denied that gift? So many of these have been my own thoughts at some point or another in the past 3 1/2 years since we started trying.
Although it has been a while since I've gone to the specialist, I, like so many women I read about in this book and online, are just so tired of it all - the temperature charts, the diagnostic tests (HSG & Laparoscopy); the fertility drugs; IUI, and most of all, the emotional rollercoaster, that I think I, like the women in this book, will gradually come to believe that it will happen when it is meant to happen - if it even happens at all - though it will still be hard at times, as I think it should.
It really helps to read stories like these to help me get to that place - it was a good book purchase for me.
I found 2 novels with infertile characters - The Baby Trail by Sinead Moriarty (of which I'm just starting to read now) and Inconceivable by Ben Elton (which still hasn't been delivered yet and won't until August). I looked at a few bookstores and none of them had either of these books, so I ordered them from Amazon along with the 2 books below while using my new Amazon credit card which allowed me $30 off my first purchase!
Anyway, I found several books discussing infertility and faith, but I ended up purchasing Empty Womb, Aching Heart by Marlo Schalesky (of which I just finished reading). I also purchased a book called The Infertility Cure by Randine Lewis.
The rest of this entry is about my thoughts on "Empty Womb, Aching Heart".
So many of the stories sounded so similar to my own in that I had the same thoughts as many of the women who shared their stories in this book. The only story that I was not comfortable with is the one where one of the women became mom to two women who felt that they had to leave a "lesbian lifestyle" in order to be loved by God. I just don't agree with that.
Anyway, I had a lot of the same thoughts that these women and/or men had, like maybe we started trying too late; why do certain people get to have multiple children and I can't seem to have one?; why do people who will neglect their children get to have children?; what did I do to deserve this?; I'm not a "real" woman if I can't have kids; there are pregnant women everywhere!; maybe God knows I'll be a bad mother; perhaps my husband should go find someone else who is fertile to give him a child; and why give me the desire to have children if I am just going to be denied that gift? So many of these have been my own thoughts at some point or another in the past 3 1/2 years since we started trying.
Although it has been a while since I've gone to the specialist, I, like so many women I read about in this book and online, are just so tired of it all - the temperature charts, the diagnostic tests (HSG & Laparoscopy); the fertility drugs; IUI, and most of all, the emotional rollercoaster, that I think I, like the women in this book, will gradually come to believe that it will happen when it is meant to happen - if it even happens at all - though it will still be hard at times, as I think it should.
It really helps to read stories like these to help me get to that place - it was a good book purchase for me.
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