National Infertility Awareness Week and The Center for Conceiving Health on local TV
Happy Earth Day.
Next Week is National Infertility Awareness Week. For the first time, the week for this attention has been moved closer to Mother's Day to heighten the awareness around the grief and emptiness women feel when they long to be celebrated on this day and won't - again - this year.
Please take a moment and think about people in your life who may be experiencing this painful and confusing issue. Perhaps someone you know who has no children, is a young couple married for a few or more years now, and who shies away from questions about "when are you going to start a family?" Maybe they have simply said, "We're trying." and given you the impression that is all they want to say, thank you very much. I invite you to hold them in your heart this next week and perhaps consider what your life would be like if you didn't have the children you so adore, or the life dreams you have received that mean the world to you. It is a huge issue, impacting 7.5 million people in the US alone - in in 4 or 5 couples! We are changing the nature of the planet in so many ways and it is changing more than the ozone layer and our general environment. It is changing our ovaries, our sperm and the fertility of every species on the planet. Isn’t it interesting that this week is also so close to Earth Day now?
I am deeply honored to report that due to the unbelievable support of people in the Madison community, the Center for Conceiving Health will be speaking on behalf of the fertility challenged community and about National Infertility Awareness Week twice over the next few weeks:
On Monday, April 27th, Karin will be on NBC 15 on the 5 PM news show to discuss this issue. The Center will then be featured on "Buzzed in the Morning" with Emmy Fink, on Monday morning, May 11 - the day after Mother's Day - on Madison's CW. If you know someone going through this issue and can share this information with them, please do. I am dedicated to letting this population know we are out there, there are people who know and care. There are people all over the country dedicating their lives to this issue. It feels so isolating and lonely, and sometimes it seems as though all the attention goes to major illness, which is understandable, but that an issue like fertility problems goes silent and ignored. We want people to know that is changing.
Thanks for reading and taking the time to reach out to someone you know and love or someone you know knows someone going through this. One woman and one couple at a time we can offer support, hope and the move toward a healthy planet so that women can be mothers and babies can be born. Happy Earth Day!
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