Gurinder Chadha Quotes

I hope every woman out there who wants to be a mother and is suffering with infertility, will explore all the options and know that if you choose the science route, it is okay.

I basically gave up my dream of becoming a mom.

I think I would be very sad if I wasn't able to have a baby.

We would love to have other children. It hasn't happened. We haven't been lucky enough.

Thinking about women who can't have their own baby, even the first baby, I'm really lucky.

We decided to try in vitro, because both Peter and I felt we couldn't handle another failure. When I miscarried after that, we had to come to terms with the possibility that this wasn't meant to be.

I would rather do surrogacy before adopting. If I can't do it, I'd rather find someone who would do it for me.

One grows up thinking you will naturally be able to have children, and when it doesn't happen, it's a shock. But I just feel that it wasn't meant to be.

People talk about the miracle of birth. No. There's the miracle of conception. I did IVF, but nothing happened. So I began to think of adoption, and then I got pregnant. It was definitely a miracle.

I had a strong faith that I would, eventually, have a baby.

Both the egg donor and the infertile mother must abide by the religious codes regarding parenting.

Hearing that I had a 3 percent chance of ever having kids was one of the more devastating moments in my life.

I went through years of unsuccessful fertility treatments, first in my hometown of D.C., then in New York City, where it finally happened - I got pregnant with my son, my miracle boy.

It was a sad process for me to become a mom, and a long process. I felt so embarrassed that I couldn't have a biological child.

I do feel at a loss for not having a child of my own at times, very much so.

For a couple that wants to have a child, there's the option of IVF, but then have a look at adoption as well.

It took three years from talking about it, to meeting with Wendie Wilson-Miller from 'Gifted Journeys' Surrogacy, to finding the right doctor, to doing the egg retrieval and finding the right surrogate.

It's such a strong drive for women, knowing you were meant to be a mom. We would have gone into debt, done whatever, exhausted all the options, to get there. But a lot of women have to give up on that dream because they can't afford it.

If you can't get pregnant for whatever reason, it's great to know that there are options available for people that want to have a family.

To get pregnant, I have resorted to artificial insemination. I want to openly talk about it because this is an opportunity to show my gratitude to all those anonymous donors who help many women to meet, like me, the dream of their life.

I now need to take a very aggressive approach to having a baby.

Everyone has read about or knows someone who has gone through fertility treatments. It is an emotional nightmare, fueled by false hope and the promise of a treatment that will work.

I have no regrets. I had an amazing surrogate who carried my son for me. I am so grateful to her. I can even say I am grateful for having cancer. I was always meant to be a mom, but if I didn't have cancer, I never would have had Zev. I would have had a kid, but not Zev, and I want Zev - tantrums and all.

You have doubtless heard, my dear mother, the misfortune of Madame de Chartres, whose child is born dead. But I would rather have even that, terrible as it is, than be as I am without hope of any children.

An IVF patient is - is living and breathing hope. It's... it's, um... it's - You wouldn't do it if you didn't have a sense of hope. Why would you put yourself through it?