Interesting article raised by the Infertility Network UK today.

They say 'there shouldn't be a stigma surrounding infertility and our 'Talking About Trying' Campaign which will be launched next year will hopefully help with this. No doubt though that like any highly personal issue, IVF should be treated with confidentiality - after all no one would share details of how their naturally conceived children. What do you think'

My opinion......until you have encountered infertility then I guess it's pretty hard to try to understand but i can most certainly say the best thing we did was to go public with our story. The support has been fantastic and it amazes me how people just don't even realise the ivf postcode lottery exists in this area. If we can just raise a little bit of awareness it would be a great achievement and why should infertility not be talked about, I think we should talk about it more, it's not something to be embarrassed or ashamed about. It's hard to talk about, really hard, but unless we talk about it then there will always be that stigma attached won't there?

I also think that people should remember that we didn't cause ourselves the problems we have. We have fertility issues that have just happened for no particular reason, and that have most likely been with us for most of our lives, through no fault of our own, they are medical conditions that unfortunately there is no cure for. Every day I see people with babies and think 'do you realise just how lucky you are' but in actual fact how do we even know that they too haven't suffered with infertility issues. I could write lots and lots on this but will leave it here for now and perhaps write a little more later in the week.

Things that made me smile today :

~ A gorgeous bunch of flowers from my husband, lovely surprise :)