For Everyone Waiting for a Child
I haven't walked this road myself. I don't know what it feels like to want a child so desperately that it becomes the organizing principle of your entire life. I don't know what it feels like to track your cycle, take your temperature, time intercourse, and then wait in the space between hope and devastation for two weeks. I don't know what it feels like to see that negative test and feel your heart break in a way you didn't know was possible. But I know people who do. I know women who've spent years in this liminal space of wanting and waiting. I know men who've struggled with the grief of this unfulfilled desire. I know couples who've been through IVF cycles and miscarriages and the slow realization that the children they dreamed about might never arrive. And I'm writing this because I think you deserve to know that someone sees your pain. That someone outside of your experience recognizes that what you're going through is real, and hard, and w...