Yearning for My Baby: Giving Voice to Infertility and the AJFN Story is a deeply compassionate exploration of infertility and the loneliness, misunderstanding and loss that so often accompany it. Dr. Margo Lowy and Shterny Dadon give language to experiences that have too often been suffered in silence, revealing how understanding and community can become sources of care, hope and continuity.
Infertility can be profoundly isolating. Its emotional impact is often difficult to express and can be equally difficult for others to understand. Through personal stories and reflections, Yearning for My Baby gives voice to the yearning, grief and loneliness experienced by those struggling to have a baby, helping to normalise feelings that are too often left unspoken.
Alongside these personal stories, the book traces the history of the Australian Jewish Fertility Network (AJFN), founded by Shterny Dadon. It tells the story of a community built around a simple but powerful conviction: that no one struggling with infertility should have to face it alone.
Bringing together Dr. Margo Lowy’s insight as a psychotherapist and author with Shterny Dadon’s personal experience and the story of AJFN, Yearning for My Baby illuminates both the private experience of infertility and the strength that can be found in shared understanding. It is a book about longing and loss, but also about the care, connection and light that become possible when silence is broken.
“I believed that my personal mission would be complete once the Australian Jewish Fertility Network was known as a place for people struggling with infertility to go for support — a place with a phone number and a receptive, caring voice on the other end of the line, so that no one feels alone. That would be mission accomplished for me.”
—Shterny Dadon
“This book is dedicated to those struggling with infertility in a world in which loneliness, misunderstanding, and silence often prevail.”
—Dr. Margo Lowy
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