PENGUINS OF MINE : The due date

Oct 31, 2013

The due date

4 comments:

AnonymousNovember 22, 2013 at 5:30 PM
Hi from ICLW. Your drawings are wonderful, but this one in particular is heartbreaking. And hopeful.
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AnonymousDecember 22, 2013 at 8:32 PM
I just wanted to say that I come back to this one time and time again. It just speaks to me.
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I am a 41 years old Finnish woman. I started drawing my penguins in the aftermath of our second miscarriage in March 2009. Prior to this, I had already gone through a miscarriage in 2006 and a stillbirth in 2007. And all of this happened after nearly 7 years of longing for a child and 3 years of fertility treatments, 3 rounds of ivf, and 13 embryo transfers.

Discovering and drawing my penguins helped me regain hope and find the strength to continue with the fertility treatments. I hope that my penguins bring comfort to those of you who are suffering from infertility, and help your loved ones understand what it all really feels like.

An unhappy road can, thankfully, lead to a happy place. Our 14th embryo transfer finally brought us our beloved daughter in June 2010. Our 16th attempt gave us a wonderful ivf son in July 2012.