I am so happy to read this article. As a woman struggling with infertility, I always love to hear about success.
I especially love to hear celebrities speak out to the whole world about their struggles. I think it kind of gives us all just a little bit more hope!
I can’t believe what that women said! “The easy way out.” People who have never experienced what we are going through could never understand what it is like. Hopefully one day they will…

Just wanted to say infertility is hardly the easy way out. Giving yourself shots, running to clinics in the morning and then oh it will maybe work. I admire these ladies for being so open about it. I never even knew of these struggles until I encountered them myself.

Pheebs,

I can assure you that adoption WAS our last resort, famous or not.

And there is nothing easy about infertility, either. There’s nothing easy about spreading your legs and showing your cooter to every white coat with an idea of why you can’t get pregnant. Or shooting yourself with hormones. Or having your body cut open during emergency surgery due to an ectopic pregnancy. And worse, losing pregnancy after pregnancy.

You are right. It isn’t cheap. We would have opted for conception the old fashioned way but it wasn’t in the cards for us.

There is NOTHING easy about infertility OR invirto…Days of our lives is doing s story right now about some couple doing invtro and making it sound so easy I had to turn the channel I got so angry.

I have 3 beautiful children, but I also have lost 4 angels. It was ahrd for me to have my kids. Because they are close in age I get comments all the time how it must be easy for me to have kids or how fetile I am. Yea, the progesterone shots for weeks on end and numourous doctors appointments are real “easy”.

I STILL am mad at the dixie chicks about what they said and how they handles things a few years back. The radio stations in my city still wont play them. I wont by their CD…but I do admire them coming forward about their infertiliy battles. Although I knew about it when Emily had Gus.

If money is no object I wouldn’t put it pass certain celebrities to try and get pregnant for a couple of months the old-fashioned way and then give up and attempt in-vitro since the cost is not an issue for them. Most people use in-vitro (or adoption) as their last resort because it is so expensive. In this sense I bet some celebrities do take the “easy way out.”

Ditto Molly.

IVF can hardly be the “easy way”. Nothing is farther from the truth.

However, Martie and Emily are the lucky ones as treatment worked for them.

I really like hearing celebrities being open about their struggles with infertility. I’m glad each of them were able to have the children that they so desired.
How is IVF the easy way? Geesh, here I thought having sex was fun and simple.

I am not much of a country music fan but I really admire this groups moxie.

What kills me though is so many women go through it yet all these 15, 16,and 17 years can pop them out like candy! It’s ashame.