My Mother

My mother just does not have any sympathy for the infertility struggles my husband and I have faced. Four years, one miscarriage, one failed IUI. She never says a kind or consoling word. Just “don’t let it get you down” or “start to picture your life a different way”. She tells me I have let myself go physically and she’s not sure if it is because of the infertility or if I’m just depressed.

As a boomer, she is the queen of googling everything and she has never cared to do an ounce of research about how to talk to someone who is experiencing infertility or what it is like for the people experiencing it. And I have told her to because she is just so insensitive!!

How are we dealing with apathetic mothers?