04/25/2026
TW: Infertility, pregnancy loss, reproductive grief
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“…Until IVF didn’t work. That’s when I knew this was not just a hurdle on the path. It was falling off the side of a cliff. Grieving the loss of something you once had, I understood. Grieving for something you never had, that broke me.” - .loves.life
Infertility is not a personal failure. Let that land for a moment.
This week is Canadian Fertility Awareness Week and National Infertility Awareness Week in the US. Jessica is 1 in 6 people in Canada, and globally, who will face infertility in their lifetime. Most of them will face it quietly, because our culture has not made enough room for this kind of grief.
And the silence is not equal. Infertility disproportionately affects women of colour and even when they access care, racial and ethnic disparities persist in treatment success, live birth rates, and outcomes. Asian women face reduced odds of pregnancy and live birth following IVF even after controlling for age, diagnosis, and treatment response a disparity that remains poorly understood because Asian infertility in North America is one of the most understudied areas in reproductive medicine. Black women may be twice as likely as White women to experience fertility problems, yet are far less likely to seek or receive treatment. For Indigenous women, there is barely enough data collected to measure the gap at all.
That absence is its own kind of erasure. It is about who the system was built for and who it continues to leave behind.
Jessica refused to be silent. And in sharing her story, she is making space for every woman who has been carrying this alone and bringing awareness to a taboo subject.
Her message has deeply moved us all please share with those who need it.
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💭 What would change if infertility research and care were built around the women most affected not the ones most visible to the system?
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