Missed Conceptions Quotes

“In the midst of infertility, it feels all-consuming and endless, but there is a light at the end of the tunnel. Infertility will end. Sometimes fertility treatment ends in success. Sometimes it doesn't. Other times it ends with the acceptance that having children is not going to happen, but that a rich a meaningful life is still possible, even if the outcome wasn't what was originally pictured or hoped for.”
― Karen Stollznow, Missed Conceptions: How We Make Sense of Infertility

“I have spent many years trying to make sense of infertility, but the truth is that infertility is senseless. It is random, chaotic, and unfair.”
― Karen Stollznow, Missed Conceptions: How We Make Sense of Infertility

“Sometimes you can't understand infertility until you go through it yourself.”
― Karen Stollznow, Missed Conceptions: How We Make Sense of Infertility

“Infertility is not a distinctly modern experience; it has been around as long as humans have.”
― Karen Stollznow, Missed Conceptions: How We Make Sense of Infertility

“Reproductive challenges are among the most trying human conditions. Infertility causes intense sadness and desperation, powerlessness and despair. Every period is a painful reminder month after month that, once again, you're not pregnant. Infertility creates an irreparable sense of loss, as though someone is missing,”
― Karen Stollznow, Missed Conceptions: How We Make Sense of Infertility

“Estimates suggest that more than one hundred million individuals suffer from infertility worldwide.”
― Karen Stollznow, Missed Conceptions: How We Make Sense of Infertility

“Despite the divine direction to be fruitful and multiply, barren-ness is a common theme in the Bible.”
― Karen Stollznow, Missed Conceptions: How We Make Sense of Infertility