Efforts to Reduce Infertility Stigma Going Mainstream

New Our Bodies, Ourselves Edition and Redbook Highlight “Silent Sorority”
San Jose, CA -- Efforts to reduce the stigma associated with infertility and to broaden the spectrum of voices heard on the complex infertility experience reached a new milestone this month with the latest edition of Our Bodies, Ourselves (released October 2011) and a just launched Redbook “Truth About Trying” video campaign. Each included references to the book Silent Sorority, the first memoir about infertility not written by a mother, and featured contributions from those who did not go on to motherhood following an infertility diagnosis.

Those diagnosed with infertility who complete fertility treatments without the outcome they hoped to achieve have routinely been overlooked, not surprisingly because success stories and images and storylines of glowing women and babies are irresistible. There's more than one ending to the infertility story and it's now being heard.

Silent Sorority author Pamela...

Silent Sorority

Silent Sorority is an award-winning memoir about adjusting to life as a "non-mom" after a decade of trying to conceive. It is the first infertility account not written by a mother and has been described as an antidote to...

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