Personal Stories
With 1-in-6 people diagnosed with some form of infertility, chances are there is someone out there with a similar story to yours.
IFAASA is going out there to find those stories. If yours isn’t here, we would love to hear it, regardless if it is ongoing or what the resolution was. Sharing your experience might help someone else.
Please feel free to send your story to info@ifaasa.co.za You may, of course, remain anonymous, and please note that we do not allow the endorsement or slander of any specific medical professionals or clinics.
Lara’s story of how she came to be…
Hello! I'm Lara. I'm a busy toddler, who loves watching Barney, playing with water, and reading books. But the story of how I came into the world is a bit different to most other kids' stories ... You see, my parents are 1 in 6... Not long after my mom and dad got...
Nordette’s update
The concept that one faces when having to speak about your life's experiences can be extremely scary; yet having had to face the knowledge that you'll never biologically be able to have children of your own is both heart breaking and painful. As a woman you go through...
Does My Infertility Make You Uncomfortable?
Over the last 12 years I have found myself repeatedly making excuses and comforting others because of how my infertility affects them. It started after my first miscarriage when on my return to work I had to explain why my mother had been the one to telephone my work...
IVF Treatments Strained My Marriage. Here Are 3 Things That Got Us Through
Knowledge and a deep commitment to each other can allow you to be closer to your partner, instead of allowing infertility to push you apart. When I started IVF, my life became a blur of blood draws and ultrasounds, nightly injections and calls from nurses. So when my...
Sometimes there is no happy ending…
By Chantal Jacobs I am 1 in 6 but I am even rarer than that. I'm here to tell you that despite all your best wishes and hard work - treatment sometimes just doesn't work. We have been TTC for 8 years, I started at 29. We have done 6 or 7 IUI's. 7 ICSI's and 2 PICSI's....
Tertia’s Infertility Story
My first IVF was 16 years ago. A life time ago. And yet it feels like yesterday. 16 years and three children later, I will never forget what it was like to be in the trenches of infertility. Today I am a mother of three children. A few years ago I was terrified I...
The most amazing gift
By Angela Kelleher - IFAASA Director In 2011, following a couple of years of trying to conceive naturally and four attempts at IUI, I finally walked through the door to a Fertility Clinic. I remember the sense of dread I felt and how overwhelmed I was to see others in...
From Sex to a Surrogate!
By Christelle Oosthuizen Funny how, as woman and since a young age you think how you will look pregnant and how many kids you would love to have. And you definately think getting pregnant is the easiest thing to do. Never in my right mind have I had the slightest...
My story, our journey
Since a little girl, all I wanted to be was a Mommy. One would think falling pregnant is the most natural experience to happen to a woman, so I thought, never did I once think I would be the one crying behind closed doors, putting a front up at the next baby shower,...
Megan’s Story
I never thought it would happen to us. I never thought we would be the 1 in 6. All I have ever wanted to do is be a mommy. And now we find ourselves on our fourth cycle with our fertility clinic. I cannot begin to explain the emotional rollercoaster which is...