Last week over 300 bloggers spoke up during National Infertility Awareness Week to share their "what if" fears, hopes and dreams about facing and enduring infertility.

The blogosphere often divides itself off into different sectors - sometimes based on interests like cooking or frugal spending, and other times because of causes or issues where there's an immense amount of support & familiarity due to shared experiences.

Project IF helps provide a window in to the infertility world through raw and deeply emotional posts. Here are poignant words from Baby Bump Bound who wrote:

What if I wake up one morning and the weighted sorrow that nests on my chest has turned to hope and now rests above my head like a silent reminder to laugh at myself, at infertility. (infertility is actually funny when you think about all of the things we find ourselves doing that we never thought we would - giving ourselves lupron shots in the bathroom at a dinner party anyone?)

I have a subtle resolve that has settled in my soul over the past 4 years of TTC~ nothing is in my control, many things are out of my control and the only thing I care to control is my unwillingness to let go of control. I don't know when I will be a mother, but I hold the image of being a mom so clearly in my mind, that I can't think of how I won't ever be a mom.

The posts linked up to Project IF give others the chance to better understand friends and family members who are struggling to get (or stay) pregnant. One blogger, Keiko Zoll of Hannah Wept, Sarah Laughed also produced a touching video we found through Julie of A Little Pregnant:

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