Jenni Saake's Tips For Coping With Infertility At Holiday Times...

Recently, I was thinking about how the holidays can be a particularly challenging time for infertile couples. With all of the holiday get-togethers (often with babies and small children present) and with all of the "holiday expectations" many face this time of year, I decided to contact Jenni Saake for ideas on coping tips for dealing with infertility at holiday time.

I didn't have an email address for Jenni, who I "met" online several months ago through National Invisible Chronic Illness Awareness Week.


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So I sent her a twitter message asking if she had any ideas for writing a post about coping with infertility at holiday time.

Jenni Saake is the author of:

Hannah's Hope: Seeking God's Heart in the Midst of Infertility, Miscarriage, and Adoption Loss



Here is a site with information on her book, referenced above:

Hannah's Hope

After contacting Jenni on twitter, she sent me several messages back with feedback on my question. I really appreciate her quick response and I'm including links she provided here. Hopefully they will help readers struggling with infertility (endometriosis-induced or otherwise).

Here are the links Jenni Saake provided:

1)

"Surviving 'Parent's Days': 101"

This is an article written by Jennifer Saake. [This article is geared for Mother's Day and Father's Day but may also help when coping with other holidays, per Jenni].

2)

The Road Less Traveled: A Journey Through Infertility

[This article written by Meridith at the cited link].

3)

Great Books For Christmas Gifts For The Reproductively Challenged Woman

[This article written by Barbara Winters at the cited link].

To contact Jenni Saake, you can click link below to visit her on twitter:

Jenni Saake (aka "Infertility Mom")

A few months back, there was a seminar on blogtalkradio talking about "Medications, Illness, Fertility and the Desire for Motherhood" with Jenni Saake. (Her seminar is available in the blogtalkradio archives).

Just click the "blogtalkradio" icon in the sidebar to access her seminar from last fall.

Related link:

Wednesday, September 10, 2008 Endometriosis Blog: National Invisible Chronic Illness Awareness Week - "Medications, Illness, Fertility and the Desire for Motherhood"

Hopefully's Jenni's links above and her blogtalkradio seminar will be useful for readers coping with infertility at this challenging time of year!

THANK YOU JENNI!

This article was posted by Jeanne via "Jeanne's Endo Blog" at www.endendoat.blogspot.com.

Endometriosis Blog: National Invisible Chronic Illness Awareness Week - "Medications, Illness, Fertility and the Desire for Motherhood"

As mentioned in previous posts, this week's events for National Invisible Chronic Illness Awareness Week include online seminars. Callers can dial in and talk about various chronic illness-related topics.

Yesterday there was a seminar on "Medications, Illness, Fertility and the Desire for Motherhood" with Jenni Saake. (I was unavailable to participate at the time of Jenni's seminar but thankfully all of this week's seminars are available in the blogtalkradio archives)!!!

I had posted a general comment on the II forum yesterday (II is commonly used this week as an abbreviation for "Invisible Illness").

Then, last night, Jenni posted a comment on this blog (see Jenni Saake's comment in the comments section of Tuesday, September 9, 2008 Endometriosis Blog: National Invisible Chronic Illness Awareness Week - Shameless Plugs For Their Merchandise). She had seen my comment and had tracked down this blog since the "endometriosis" topic got her attention.

I have since listened to Jenni Saake's seminar and I'm sure many of our readers will find it helpful!!! If you are interested in listening to it, you'll simply need to register for a blogtalkradio login (a quick process)... and then login to blogtalkradio when you're ready to listen to archived seminars like this one.


The name of Jenni Saake's seminar is: "Medications, Illness, Fertility and the Desire for Motherhood".

Here's a description of the show (as listed on blogtalkradio):

Wondering if you should consider parenthood with your illness? Concerned about your fertility as well as the impact of medications? Jennifer Saake has lived 18 years of illness, with infertility for 10 of those years. Balancing both conditions includes: medication side effects (illness meds on fertility and fertility meds on illness), questioning sanity of wanting desperately to have children yet fearing how she would care for them when she can hardly care for herself, facing the frustration of attempted adoption when her health makes her less "marketable." She has written a book on infertility and loss and is praying about someday writing a book on living with chronic illness.

I encourage you to check out Jenni Saake's talk on blogtalkradio by logging in as described above. With Jenni Saake's personal experience with endometriosis, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome (CFIDS), hormonally-induced panic attacks, infertility issues, investigating adoption, miscarriages, PCO (polycystic ovarian syndrome), surgery, pre-diabetic condition, artificial insemination, etc... I'm sure many readers here will have a great appreciation for Jenni Saake's compelling story!

Jenni's story is engrossing, informative, and very worthwhile listening! Please consider listening to this fantastic program!!

Here are two of her sites that she mentioned during the program:

http://www.hannahshopebook.com/
http://www.harvestinghope.blogspot.com/

This is a wonderful seminar that will appeal to many readers of this blog!!

See related posts regarding National Invisible Chronic Illness Awareness Week:

Sunday, September 7, 2008 Endometriosis Blog: Tomorrow is DAY ONE of National Invisible Chronic Illness Awareness Week 2008!!

Monday, September 8, 2008 Endometriosis Blog: ***TODAY*** Kicks Off National Invisible Chronic Illness Awareness Week 2008!!

Tuesday, September 9, 2008 Endometriosis Blog: National Invisible Chronic Illness Awareness Week - Shameless Plugs For Their Merchandise

This article was posted by Jeanne via "Jeanne's Endo Blog" at www.endendoat.blogspot.com.