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“Reproductive challenges are among the most trying human conditions. Infertility causes intense sadness and desperation, powerlessness and despair. Every period is a painful reminder month after month that, once again, you're not pregnant. Infertility creates an irreparable sense of loss, as though someone is missing,”

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“Infertility is not a distinctly modern experience; it has been around as long as humans have.”

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“Sometimes you can't understand infertility until you go through it yourself.”

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“I have spent many years trying to make sense of infertility, but the truth is that infertility is senseless. It is random, chaotic, and unfair.”

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Book:Missed Conceptions: How We Make Sense of Infertility

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“In the midst of infertility, it feels all-consuming and endless, but there is a light at the end of the tunnel. Infertility will end. Sometimes fertility treatment ends in success. Sometimes it doesn't. Other times it ends with the acceptance that having children is not going to happen, but that a rich a meaningful life is still possible, even if the outcome wasn't what was originally pictured or hoped for.”

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Book:Missed Conceptions: How We Make Sense of Infertility

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