national infertility awareness week

This week is a bit different because I decided to share my story of infertility instead, as part of National Infertility Awareness Week. And to boldly step into the future, I did it in video form!

Welcome to another My Why from Claire Sandys, co-host of The Silent Why podcast. My Why episodes are weekly audio shorts of my latest blog post from the website: thesilentwhy.com/blog. 

Not every story of infertility ends with a baby, and that was sadly our story too. Having decided not to pursue medical intervention or other means of 'getting a child' we are in the category of people that can be hard to understand for some people - 'if you wanted a baby, why didn't you do everything you could to get one?' Well, life's not that simple. To find out more about our 'whys' and 'I don't knows' this episode will give you a small insight into that journey. So you can either listen to it in this episode or view this as a video on YouTube via this link:

And for more about our journey with infertility, you can hear Chris and me chatting all things 'childless' in Episode 3 of The Silent Why:
https://www.thesilentwhy.com/podcast/episode/492a29c1/loss-of-fertility-chris-and-claire-sandys-part-1

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Infertility challenges are unfortunately way to common these days. Either we have personally be on the journey or we know someone close to us who is currently on it. 

In honor of National Infertility Awareness Week and in support for all my fellow mamas who have been on or are currently on this journey, I invited two infertility warriors, advocates and co-founders of Fertility Rally, Ali Prato and Blair Nelson onto the show to talk about how they offer 24/7 support, content and curated events for anyone going through infertility or building their modern families. 

We talk about: 

1. What to say and what not to say to someone on the infertility journey.  (EVERYONE needs to hear this!)
2. Common misconceptions about infertility. 
3. And we talk about ways someone on this journey can find nourishing support and sisterhood through Fertility Rally. 

Whether you have gone through infertility or not it is our duty to be educated so we can be empathetic and supportive to those on this path. 

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