How to support friends and family struggling with infertility

Entertainment City reporter Teri Hart opens up about her 6-year struggle with infertility. She joins fertility doctor Belej-Rak, who talks about how couples redefine the image of family.

[mollyderrick]

Oh! That is such a painful question! I am infertile. You can’t even imagine how many times I heard something like “It will happen when it is meant to happen” or “I know what you mean, with our first one it took 2 months to get pregnant.” Blah-blah-blah. Some of my friends thought that it was a kind of not such a serious problem. Moreover, they can’t understand that it can be like a real disaster for me and my husband. They told me to do yoga, use the help of acupuncture master and even just to calm down. It seems that it was pretty easy for them to say such things. Also some of my friends could not understand that sometimes it can be difficult to visit some kids’ parties and so on. I just wanted to cry after such events. And when some of our relatives got to know that we are going to Ukraine and looking for some reproductive center in Kiev… Some of them was laughing. It was a kind of misunderstanding from their side. Like how we could use the help of another woman. Or something like: ‘this child would not be yours!’. But you know… “not care two hoots about it”- was the best option. Now we are working with Ukrainian clinic and I am just waiting the moment as they will see our newborn.

[gse]

This is the trade off sometimes when you put off having kids in your 20's