True Stories
"After 4 miscarriages, I made it. This is my story."
I don’t know where to start. I’m not good at writing, nor do I intend to move anyone emotionally. I just want to share my story with the hope that some woman reading this now, who feels she can’t...
"One ovary, one child, and one body that never stopped trying."
I never imagined that my journey to motherhood would begin with surgery. That before even trying to become a mother, I would have to say goodbye to a part of myself.
I was 32 when I underwent...
"Once upon a time... I had 34 ovulation tests in my drawer"
I don’t know exactly when we decided it was time to have a baby (we were already a bit older), but I remember very clearly what happened next: I ordered ovulation tests, a large toiletry bag for...
"Two lines after hundreds of days"
I wasn’t one of those girls who grew up thinking they would definitely become mothers. Motherhood was something abstract and distant to me—something that might come, or might not. Until I met my...
"They told me it would be difficult for me to become a mother... but here I am holding her in my...
For as long as I can remember, my cycle was a mystery. It was never regular. Sometimes it was delayed by two weeks, other times by a whole month or even two. Back then, in my teenage years,...