National Infertility Awareness Week

April 24th to May 1st is National Infertility Awareness Week (NIAW). Resolve started Project IF to go along with this. Basically asking people experiencing infertility to post their "What IF..." questions and to spread the awareness of infertility. IF is the online abbreviation of infertility. Anyway I added a couple of "What IF...?" questions to their list. There were over 300 when I became aware of the project and added on...it was humbling, interesting and inspiring to read some of the questions. I continue thinking of what if's at times...like one that struck me today "What IF our spare bedroom never has any use beyond storage?" or "What IF there is always this big piece of me (infertility) that I don't share with others?". There really are so many questions that go through your mind during this process and realizing that even when you have children if you are that lucky (as my best friend from high school has told me) it doesn't solve the problem or make everything better (even though people around you expect it to). Anyway I just wanted to share this post and also a video from a blog that I follow. This girl is also a fellow woman diagnosed with POF around my age and some of the thoughts she has and has taken from the IF project. I really enjoyed it and hope you do too (pause or stop my music before starting) :

What IF? A Portrait of Infertility from Keiko Zoll on Vimeo.