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Infertility is not for the faint of heart. Will it test your mental, physical, and spiritual strength? Um, possibly. Will you come out a better person than before? No guarantee, but as with all of life’s challenges, the better prepared you are going in, the more likely your psyche is to survive and thrive.

In this book, we discuss a lot about support, be it your partner, friends, family, professionals, or online networks. It doesn’t matter in what shape it comes, everyone needs a little help from their friends, no matter who those friends may be.

You may decide to let just a few close confidantes know of your situation with trying to conceive. You may tell anyone who will listen. Regardless, know that at some point, someone will say something wrong. Set the ground rules now. If you don’t want to be asked how things are going (secret speak for “Are you pregnant yet?”), tell your network up-front that you will let them know when there is something to know. Their overenthusiasm may annoy you time and again, but they are probably almost as excited as you are to hear about your success.

While you don’t want to anticipate a long, arduous battle with your fertility, or lack thereof, don’t set yourself up to expect that within a month you’ll be shopping online for maternity clothes. Decorating the baby’s room at this point is probably not a great idea either. If all goes well and success finds you early, that’s great — and we promise you that you’ll have plenty of time to find the perfect maternity wardrobe and baby collection. If not, you will only set yourself up for disappointment, and the goal is to keep that to a minimum as best you can, in the areas over which you do have control. Your thinking is one of them.