Emotions of Infertility and Pregnancy Loss

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.

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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?