I trained in fertility support before experiencing infertility myself.
I knew the terminology. I knew how to research. I understood the conversations happening around fertility care.
And then the conversation was about me.
Suddenly, the information wasn't just information anymore. It was about my life, my family, my future — and I learned very quickly that knowing the language and being the person living inside the experience are two very different things.
Over the years that followed, through my own experience with infertility, fertility treatment and pregnancy loss, I kept learning.
But perhaps more importantly, I learned to listen differently.
My experience doesn't tell me what yours feels like. Our stories may look nothing alike.
But it taught me how much it matters to have someone willing to understand yours.
Someone who can understand the language without losing sight of the person. Who can help with the information when you need it and sit with the uncertainty when there isn't an answer. Who doesn't need to make the experience positive, meaningful, or fixable before they can be present with you in it.
Because one of the clearest things I learned along the way was this:
There can be a lot of fertility care without nearly enough fertility support.
That's why I'm here.