Infertility vs. Mommy Blog

Thanks to ICLW I've been reading a log of different blogs this week which got me to thinking. Many of the blogs listed on Mel's site are about infertility and life in general. I noticed that in some blogs the women who have suffered from fertility problems but now have families either have a separate blog for fertility issues and another for mommy stuff, other bloggers choose to warn readers when their is content about kids. Which leads me to wonder, can you combine blogging about infertility and blogging about your kids?

I was thinking about this as I walked over to get my daughter from daycare today and it seems to me that they aren't two separate topics, they are inevitably intertwined. If those of us who suffer from fertility issues were never able to have families then all the treatments would be futile and the whole infertility industry would not exist. We put up with all the invasive tests and procedures to ultimately end up with a family or we choose to adopt and grow our family that way. That means there are many of us who want to discuss both infertility and family hence they become one and the same.

I am painfully aware that not all infertility sufferers end up with the family they so desperately desire and that they probably don't want to read about my views on being a working mom, it would just be too painful for them. My heart definitely goes out to you if you fall in to that category. I know that I'm very lucky to finally have my family and I don't take that for granted. So, those of you who decide to stick with me, I hope you don't mind that I mix infertility with family, because in the end, that is the way it should be.