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Reproductive Health Stories Needed
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We need your help. We need your story!
The National Foundation for Celiac Awareness (NFCA) is working on a program related to reproductive health, and we want to hear your personal stories.
Whether you have suffered miscarriages, stillbirths, or bearing
children with low birth weights, we want to hear from you. If you
have celiac disease, began a gluten-free diet and delivered a healthy
baby boy or girl, tell us about it. Together, we can tell our stories
to raise awareness about the debilitating effect that celiac disease
has on reproductive health and put an end to these family tragedies.
As a mother who battled the heart-wrenching effects of celiac disease
on fertility before finally giving birth to a daughter who weighed only
three pounds, I’ll be the first person to tell you about the importance
of celiac awareness. Had it not taken me 23 physicians, several
miscarriages and a full term stillbirth to discover that all I had to
do was stop eating gluten, I would not have had to endure this
heartbreak.
The answer was so simple. Why didn’t my small army of doctors know to
test for it? With almost 3 million celiacs among us and a staggering 20
to 50 percent of them facing infertility issues, imagine how many are
trying to have children, can’t and don’t know why.
But, we can heal ourselves and we can help others heal.
To contribute, email your stories to emily@CeliacCentral.org. NFCA is listening!
Alice Bast
President, NFCA
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