Author: Mary Gormley

For the past seven years, my husband Mike and I have been trying to conceive a child. Both coming from large families of five and four siblings, we were naïve in thinking it would be “in our genes” or easy to do because our parents had no issues with creating a family. Our plan was an excited one of “ok, let’s do this!” to one of “why is this happening to us?” Infertility isn’t something anyone wants to hear, whether it’s a man or a woman. It is human nature; it’s been happening naturally for thousands of years. Weren’t we…