Local author shares her story of infertility during awareness week
It s a silent pain many couples face. It s estimated one out of every eight couples in the U-S struggle to get pregnant. The numbers are even higher for women of color. This week is National Infertility Awareness Week
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MURFREESBORO, Tenn (WTVF) â It s a silent pain many couples face - the struggle to get pregnant. The numbers are even higher for women of color. This week is National Infertility Awareness Week. I knew that I was not alone. I knew that there were other women who were suffering in silence, said Ambi Smith.
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My husband and I are that one in eight.
When we decided to start our family in 2017, I was 29 years old and expected that having children was par for the course after I got married. We soon discovered that I had a low ovarian egg reserve and my husband had poor sperm count and quality.
For the next 18 months we went through some of the most challenging moments of our marriage. At times I didn’t think we would stay together. It nearly broke us.
We ended up doing two rounds of in vitro fertilization, more commonly known as IVF. One round was covered by my company’s insurance, but the other was not, since I had exhausted all my benefits with the first round. Throughout our process we received questions from family and friends such as, “How are you paying for this? Isn’t it expensive?”
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