Husband’s honest Facebook post on infertility struggles goes viral
Conceiving a child is usually a happy and exciting time for a couple. But for the one in six couples who experience infertility issues, their experience may be a lot more stressful, more uncertain and more like Dan Majesky’s.
The Cincinnati, Ohio native shared a long and brutally honest post about the difficulties he and his wife, Leah, faced while trying to have a baby.
The couple has been trying to conceive for more than three years.
“I’m not sure when, exactly, we stopped the birth control. Like all our plans, we didn’t start with a plan, but instead decided that if we got pregnant, that would be great,” he writes.
He details their journey of how they tried to conceive “using apps and calendars to track this and that,” trying old wives’ tales and visiting the doctor to check their sperm count and egg supply.
“There is nothing you can tell a woman that will make her feel more young beautiful and vibrant than, ‘You have a dwindling egg supply and it is time to pick up the pace.’" he writes. “You should try it. Maybe at a bar.”
His story continues to outline the various steps he and Leah took — hormone treatments, intrauterine insemination even considering surrogacy. All the while, Dan’s account remains deeply personal, sharing everything from their hopeful moments — “You go in for a blood test, two weeks later, and they tell you that you’re preganant. And you cry. Big fat tears of relief,” — to tragic losses — “I’m so sorry. I can’t find a heartbeat.”
The couple grieved but pressed on until one day a pregnancy test revealed “the faintest f–king line.”
"It’s a girl. Not that gender matters! But we’re going to have a little girl!” he shares, adding that if everything goes well his Facebook friends can expect to be inundated with pictures in November.
Majesky writes, “I hesitate to share this because I don’t want anyone to read this and feel what we felt, watching others’ dreams come true.” But he hopes that his story “helps someone else feel less alone.”
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