When you are in the midst of battling your fertility, it is easy to buy into the lie that every single moment of your life is terrible. As I was living through it, I believed that my entire 4-1/2 year journey to parenthood was one big dark cloud of pain. However, in retrospect, I realize that I have happy memories from events that happened during the time that I was going through fertility treatments.

There was my friend's wedding, where I was a bridesmaid and had to wear a knee brace that prevented me from bending my leg. Meanwhile, another bridesmaid ... more