May 3 - National Infertility Survival Day®

Happy National Infertility Survival Day®!  Each year on Sunday before Mother’s Day, this day remembers those struggling with infertility. 

  

This day was intentionally placed before Mother’s Day to finally put those coping with infertility first in the order of things. Many keep their struggle private.  

However, others choose to bring the issue out in the open and share it with family and friends. 

This day encourages individuals and couples coping with infertility to share, bond, band together, and celebrate the significant triumphs and small daily efforts. 

HOW TO OBSERVE 

If you know someone who is struggling with infertility, be sensitive to their needs on this day and around Mother’s Day and Father’s Day.  

Refrain from asking couples when they are going to have children. 

It’s a private experience. And sometimes, the process can be personally, emotionally, and physically painful. Sharing the experience with even close family and friends can be difficult. 

However, if a friend or family member brings up their experience, listen. Sometimes sharing their fears or being able to unburden their sadness and grief to a friendly face helps. 

Use #InfertilitySurvivalDay to post on social media. 

HISTORY 

In 2004, American writer and founder of National Infertility Survival Day® Beverly Barna conceived this day as a way to give those struggling with infertility their own special observance.  

Barna is also the author of the 2002 humour book Infertility Sucks! (Keeping It All Together When Sperm and Egg Remain Stubbornly Apart.)  

For more information, visit her website below: 

https://www.infertilitysucks-thebook.com 

#InfertilitySurvivalDay 

#infertilitysucks
@moonbump3
@notsomommy 

@BeverlyBarna 

@nichecinema

DATES

May 02, 2021 
May 01, 2022 
May 07, 2023 
May 05, 2024 
May 04, 2025 
May 03, 2026 
May 02, 2027 
May 07, 2028 
May 06, 2029 
May 05, 2030