Did you know?

Did/do you know how common infertility, miscarriage, still birth and other pregnancy complications are?

In your teens your told never to have sex or you'll get pregnant, than you spend your early adult life trying to not fall pregnant and than when you are finally ready to start a family and want to fall pregnant there are all these unexpected obstacles you have to get past.

There are lost of statistics out there, apparently about one in four known pregnancy end in miscarriage and one in 200 are still born (born after 20 weeks), there really aren't that many stats out there for couple who need help to conceive (I've been told it's about one in every four couples) when you think about all these stats, it's amazing how uninformed many people are.

I was one of these uninformed people, I wasn't naive to the fact that these things happen but I was naive to how many people they happen to, that was until I got on the Internet and joined some forums and it would become a regular occurrence that people would post about their trouble to conceive, having to go through assisted conception (such as IVF) and losing their child (miscarriage, still birth or only a few weeks old)...all of these stories are just heartbreaking but with each story my eyes were opened wider and wider to just how hard it is and just how real it is.



I often wonder if people knew how hard the road ahead would they still travel it?

I am a strong believer in whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger and I really hope this is the case for all out there who have had to go through infertility, miscarriage and the loss of a child.