Childfree After Infertility: Moving From Childlessness to a Joyous Life

by Heather Christine Wardell

There are many books on infertility, and on being childfree. Childfree After Moving from Childlessness to a Joyous Life puts the two together, focusing solely on the formerly infertile, and how they have created happy, childfree lives. Including the stories of many who have made this transition, the book shows the infertile man or woman that it is possible to put infertility aside, and choose to live childfree, not childless. The book's upbeat tone leads the reader through what can be a difficult transition with grace and humour.Infertility can be devastating, affecting all facets of life. Readers of Childfree After Infertility will learn how their infertility has affected their lives, and how choosing to release their infertility and become childfree can open up a vast array of possibilities and opportunities that might never have existed had they remained childless.

Genres: Nonfiction

82 pages, Paperback

First published April 20, 2003

Reviews

[Mandy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Incredibly helpful and gave me so many things to think about in our infertility to childfree life.

[Laurie Burns · Rating 4 out of 5]

Childfree After Infertility by Heather Wardell packs a small but powerful punch! Being child free after trying for years, multiple losses and many different treatments, yet also making peace with your life and feeling like you’re OK with where you are?; it’s kind of a weird place to be in. Some people might spend the rest of their life feeling that they don’t have something they really wanted, but that’s not really how I feel. It’s complicated, I’ll give it that. Heather is Canadian, and speaks to this specific group of us weirdos. A very heart seeing read. She really reflects on a large part of it that I feel too, and that is feeling different and feeling left out. “ A large part of my desire for children was a need to fit in, and to have people be proud of me, and it hurt to see them receiving what I had wanted."