Reality

You are beautiful, strong, and wonderful human beings. There is no reason you “shouldn’t” be able to get pregnant, the universe is not punishing you, and you have done nothing wrong to “deserve” fertility struggles.

You are on a longer journey than the girl on your Facebook who got pregnant on the first try, or by accident, and you are entitled to your jealousy, your anger, your sadness, and whatever helps you get through it. It is okay to grieve the fact that your womb is currently empty.

Most of all, this will be worth it. You will hold your little one someday, and while you are looking down at that sweet face, holding those impossibly tiny hands, in awe of all the possibilities ahead of this amazing little being, you will be that much more appreciative of the battles that brought them to you. You will love them even more for the tears you cried when the negative tests ripped out a piece of your heart month after month.