After I go through a painful time in my life, I like to reflect upon what I learned from the experience. This helps me to make lemonade out of life's lemons, and it helps me to stop viewing certain times in my life as "bad." As long as I am learning from my experiences, there is value in them, even those that really hurt like my infertility years.

One lesson I got out of my infertility years is the power of endurance. When each milestone rolled around, whether it was a birthday, Christmas, or Mother's Day, I would think to myself that I had to ... more