Worried you may be Infertile? Not sure what your doctor mean’t during your appointment?
Here is all the info you need about the disease of Infertility.
Read our collection of personal stories here. Remember, you are not alone in your journey with Infertility, 1 in 6 couples suffer from this dreadful disease.
Make sure you understand some easy coping techniques to help manage the stress and emotions brought on by infertility.
A Collection of current Blog Posts by our Member’s or Followers, surrounding Infertility.
Support
One of the most challenging aspects of the infertility experience is dealing with the emotional ups and downs relating to medical treatment, the uncertainty about outcomes, and the challenge of having to make important decisions such as when ‘enough is enough.’
People
A support group will help you feel less isolated, empower you with knowledge and validate your emotional response to the life crisis of infertility.
Perhaps one of the most important benefits of participating in a support group is a decreased sense of the isolation so many people feel when they are experiencing infertility. In a support group environment, feelings of anger, depression, guilt and anxiety can be expressed, validated by others and accepted as a normal response to the infertility crisis.
Adoption
Choosing to adopt a child means you are willing to make a lifelong commitment to raising a child and creating a family for that child.
Medical Aid
Isn’t it time for your Medical Aid to cover Fertility Treatments?
Infertility treatment carries with it a lot of stress around finances and how you are going to afford to go through the treatment you need. It is therefore critical for you to empower yourself with information on what parts of your treatment you can claim for to help alleviate the financial burden.
My name is Pasco and this is my parents, Denis and Veronica’s journey to our family:
When Denis and I met in 1980, we discussed and agreed that we wanted children very early in our marriage. Brandon, our son was conceived in our third year of marriage and, we wanted to afford him all the attention he needed, before thinking of our second child. Time passed quickly and Denis and I tried for our 2nd. This was not meant to be and after many failed IVF’s and a miscarriage, I was devastated and at the point of admitting defeat that Brandon would be an only child.
In 2008, we started trying for children. I was so excited about becoming a mom, that I actually started baby shopping that very first month. I look back on those moments and shudder, if only I had known what lay ahead.
After a year, an infertile friend of mine recommended we seek help. I was reluctant, I believed my problem was related to the grief I was experiencing over losing my dad. Eventually though, we went to see a fertility specialist. Initial tests seemed to show that all was fine with us, and so we went home and carried on trying.
Life planning, experiences and expectations, came to a halt, when the results of what I thought would never be possible, became evident and positive. After several tests and, to my dismay, I was diagnosed with a very rare condition of Varicocele vein which affects only 15 in 100 men. I was told, the worst and most unbearable news, was the “fact” that this will steal my chance of becoming a parent and father.
Break the silence
IFAASA, the Infertility Awareness Association of South Africa NPC, established in 2013, is a non-profit organisation with the aim of supporting Southern Africans living with reproductive health issues through education, research and advocacy, and to educate the public about reproductive disease.