My infertility / childless life is a huge part of who I am. Infertility caused my husband and me to decide to stop trying to get pregnant and just embrace the childless life that we had. Infertility / childless life pushed me to embrace my roles as dog mom and aunt. And because of our infertility / childless life, we decided to host an exchange student and found an amazing, extended family through that adventure. But for a long time, I felt alone because I didn’t think there was anyone else like me…
Of course, this simply is not true. There are plenty of us out there who don’t have kids, either by chance or by choice. One morning, my husband said I should start writing a blog about our infertility / childless life so I could help others going through the struggle. He told me I should call it “Not So Mommy…” He bought the domain name that day and Not So Mommy…™ was born.
As I started writing my blog, my original intent was to connect with and help those struggling with infertility like we had. An unexpected benefit is that I started making connections of my own. Finally, I truly discovered that I am not alone in my childless not by choice life.