National Infertility Awareness Week: What Do They Want You To Know

In celebration of Infertility Awareness Week, social media pages and news site are full of incredible stories that are both inspiring and heartbreaking. These stories hope to give light to the many struggles that couple experience in the face of fertility.

Infertility Awareness Week is about to end this week but the efforts to reach out and spread awareness is still going. Various media outlets have dedicated articles each day for a week in order to help raise awareness and encourage everyone to discuss the matter openly. Parent Herald previously reported basic facts about infertility. Now, learn what these ladies want others to know about them.

Jenni Moore

Fox News 8 tells the story of Jenni and her husband, both hailing from Reidsville, and their incredible story towards becoming a parent. For years, they have wanted to conceive however, they just couldn't. Their infertility is one those rare cases that cannot be explained.

The couple went through the whole process: pills, shots, IVF treatments. Before successfully getting pregnant, Jenni had two devastating miscarriages. Later on, they have decided that their main goal was to be parents, not just to be pregnant. They eventually adopted.

"Every heartbreak, every tear, every dollar, every single second of it has been worth it. The second I laid my eyes on her!" Jenni exclaimed. In telling her story, she hopes that people should be sensitive about asking personal questions like, "When are going to have  a baby? What's taking you so long?" These questions could be hurtful to those with infertility issues.

Lori Marion

A registered nurse and IVG coordinator, she hopes to tell everyone suffering from infertility that they're not alone. "There's definitely help. You're not alone. It's something that is scary to reach out and ask for that help- but once you do you're going to find you've got lots of support and lots of options out there to achieve the dream of having a family."

Jennifer Palumbo

A writer for Huffington Post, Palumbo is also an active infertility advocate and one proud IVF mom. In line with the National Infertility Awareness Week's theme this year, "Start Asking", she echoes the same sentiments that Moore expressed. In her article, she emphasized the importance of empathy.

"Empathy costs you nothing, doesn't physically pain hurt you and entails only two seconds of your time to think, 'Gee, before I say something, let me ask myself if this seems hurtful?' What's so difficult about asking people to think before they speak?"

In the coming years, RESOLVE, the organization that offers help to infertile men and women, hopes to let the public become aware of the disease and how it can change the dialogue. Check out another inspiring story in the video below: