Having a child can gratify the deepest needs of a person, the inability to conceive can crush a person's spirit.

This is National Infertility Week. Families with fertility challenges are targeted by this week long awareness; success stories of conception and birth abound, proponents of high tech, high science, invasive and medical methods to induce conception are touted by experts and all in all everyone challenges the other guys' methods.

The first stop on the trip to a challenged conception is to adjust one's thinking, the fact that this is called National Infertility Week is tugging at failure. It should be called National Infertility Solutions Week and have that be. National Fertility Week would be good too. Those who are able to conceive wouldn't give it much notice and those who are having issues with conception would still be targets.

This article appears in Apr 22-28, 2009.