Finding out or even thinking that you are infertile can be devastating, to say the least. I’ve dreamed of becoming a mother ever since I was old enough to watch The Cosby Show. Sometimes, as a teenager, I would sit and think, “I might not be able to have kids because I want them so badly.” Sometimes, the mere thought would bring me to tears. I imagine the anxiety, confusion, and continued disappointment must quadruple when you so desperately want to start a family and can’t. Being a friend to someone who is infertile can be just as heartbreaking. Infertility can be and usually is all-consuming. This can be distressing to the friendship, knowing that your friend is hurting and there’s never truly anything you can say or do to make it better. Author of So Close: Infertile and Addicted to Hope, Tertia Loebenberg Albertyn, wrote an article instructing everyone on how to be the best friends we can be to someone who is struggling with infertility. It won’t make your friendship like it was, but it’ll do more good than harm. Click on the link below and tell TBBC your thoughts on infertility.
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Hello ladies! First I want to thank you for visiting The Belly Button Connection (TBBC). TBBC was originally created as a forum for mothers: aspiring, expecting, and veteran. The name was derived from the baby’s connection to the mother: physically, mentally, and emotionally. I wanted TBBC to be a place where women received both accurate and positive feedback about pregnancy. Since creating TBBC I’ve learned that our thoughts about pregnancy, motherhood, and womanhood start long before the onset of puberty. In fact, it starts with our relationships with our own mothers, aunts, sisters, and peers. Our hardships are not our own. They are passed down from generation to generation, friend to friend, spouse to spouse, parent to child. This doesn’t have to be the case. Leo Buscaglia said it best when he said, “Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.”
TBBC is that touch, smile, kind word, listening ear, honest compliment, and smallest act of caring. My mission is to keep you abreast on events, programs, and seminars that will be beneficial to you as well as partner with organizations that will improve your confidence, increase your self-esteem, and help you become the woman you strive to be for yourself, your family, and generations to follow.
TBBC is that touch, smile, kind word, listening ear, honest compliment, and smallest act of caring. My mission is to keep you abreast on events, programs, and seminars that will be beneficial to you as well as partner with organizations that will improve your confidence, increase your self-esteem, and help you become the woman you strive to be for yourself, your family, and generations to follow.
Monday, July 6, 2009
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