When I had been going through fertility treatments for a couple of years, somebody told me that "it's not like infertility is cancer. Nobody is going to die." I was flabbergasted by this comment. I am sure this person saw this comment as trying to reframe my situation so it would not seem as bad, but it just made me feel invalidated. Because I wasn't at risk of dying from infertility, it wasn't serious!?!!

No, my body was not at risk of dying, but there were definitely risks of "deaths" involved, such as the "death" of the dream of the child with hub's ... more