This is the third of a four-part interview with Melissa Ford, author of Navigating the Land of IF: Understanding Infertility and Exploring Your Options. Melissa is also the author of the wildly popular blog, Stirrup Queens, the site many infertile people find as they search for information on infertility treatments, adoption (domestic, international, open, kinship), donor gametes, and childfree living.

Why would someone who is NOT experiencing infertility want to pick up this book?
To better understand someone they know who is experiencing infertility. I don’t know how many people who are not experiencing infertility will pick up this book, but that’s okay. The words are there for everyone to use who is experiencing infertility and they can pass them along in conversation with people outside the experience.

How different would your own IF journey have been if you’d had this book?
I probably would have felt less lonely. The exercises in the book I used to make decision and I included one of the real decision webs we made before we started treatments. And I took my sister’s advice to heart a lot and still do in living my life. But I wish I had known about the online community back then. It was small, but still existed. I wish I had known about blogs and read them.

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Tags : adoption, infertility
Categories : Fertility Problems