June 04, 2009

Tuesday was a big day for Sandwich author Kristen Magnacca. She received a national award for her book “Love and Infertility: Survival Strategies for Balancing Infertility, Marriage, and Life.”

Magnacca received the inaugural award for the category “Best Book, Coping” from RESOLVE: The National Infertility Association in the category of “an individual (or) organization whose printed book enhances the lives of people with infertility with a message of how to cope and live with the disease.”

The awards ceremony was held in New York.

The book acknowledges the emotions associated with infertility on a very personal yet encouraging level — Magnacca and her husband, Mark, tried to conceive for three years before she gave birth to their son, Cole, and five more years before their daughter, Grace, completed the family.

Magnacca says that although her husband had misgivings about putting a public spotlight on such a private part of their lives, she feels compelled to use her own experience to help others in her situation.

“It’s a crisis of mind, body and soul,” Magnacca says of infertility. “I feel when you’re in that dark part, you need someone to say there’s a beginning, middle and an end.”

The book offers 28 strategies for coping with infertility, each with an uplifting, funny or touching narrative from Magnacca’s personal life. The end of each chapter has a “Putting It Into Practice” section to help the reader apply the strategy.

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