Tag: pregnancy-loss
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When Government Decides You Can’t Become a Parent
Adoption is our only option and Québec won’t let us bring a child home. I am grateful my province offers subsidies for fertility treatment but what happens when those fail? We’ve been on the local adoption list for years now. With the average of one child being relinquished per year and nearly one hundred people…
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“Do You Have Kids?” And Other Stupid Things People Say
Only someone who has NOT faced infertility could fathom asking such an intrusive and triggering question. “Do you have kids?” What a loaded and offensive line of inquiry! I was in the middle of the fertility screening process and trying to comprehend why conception just wasn’t happening when a colleague asked if I had kids…
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Pregnancy Loss and “Losing” Your Spark
Here I was in December 2024 newly pregnant after a successful IUI (intrauterine insemination) treatment. Sparkling and blissfully unaware of the gutting grief that would lie ahead. Fast forward six months to a conversation where I was told I was not as shiny or bright as I once was. [ Insert reaction of incredulity ]…
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My Second Pregnancy Loss: Finding Words for Grief and Love
Here I was in February 2026 elated while expecting our rainbow baby. Cut to a month later discovering for a second time that our baby had stopped developing. Some grief asks you to travel a road you already know. The path of recurring pregnancy loss is a heartbreak I wished I’d never have to walk…
The F Word 