Our guest was Martha
Diamond, a psychologist that specializes in infertility and loss, a
survivor of infertility herself, and co-author of Unsung
Lullabies: Understanding and Coping with Infertility.
Infertility affects so
many layers of your life including your relationship with your
spouse, friends, and extended family.
Everyone has a story of how their life
will turn out, including a reproductive story. What happens when
that story goes awry?
How to cope when
surrounded by pregnant woman and new parents when you’re
struggling trying to conceive.
Prepare in advance how
to handle baby showers, the holidays, and family gatherings?
Deciding whether to go
or skip the event.
How to be self
protective without cutting everything and everyone out of your
life.
Suggestions on what to
say when people are fishing around trying to find why you
don’t have kids.
The stages of grief and
how they apply to infertility.
Why do some marriages
get stronger when faced with infertility and others fall
apart?
Why “unexplained
infertility” is so hard to deal with?
Does the diagnosis of
the cause of infertility affect how people are able to cope?
How do the financial
worries over fertility treatment affect spouses differently?
How to handle pregnancy
loss in a society that doesn’t recognize this loss?
How to create a way to
honor prenatal loss.
How do you know when to
try again after a miscarriage?
How to find a therapist
that specializes in infertility and pregnancy loss?
