INTRODUCTION

We’re raised as little girls to believe that life will be fulfilled once you marry the man of your dreams and start a family. Of course all of this will happen after you graduate from college and land an awesome job or become successful in your career. Unfortunately, things don’t always fall in that order or work out like that for women. Sometimes, the baby comes first or not at all. And let’s not even add prince charming into the equation. Next thing you know, you’re in your thirties, stressed out and racing against your biological clock.

Well, that’s what inspired the website and blog: GIVE ME A RING AND A BABY
I decided to recruit a single friend to join me on this journey and we're both excited to write about our personal experiences. We're both women in our thirties who have complained about our Single or Childless statuses on more than one occasion over a bottle of wine.

I'm a married career woman with almost everything I dreamed of having except for a child. The diagnosis: unexplained infertility. I appear perfectly healthy to doctors with no signs of fertility issues. Basically I fall within the 6 percent of married women in the United States having difficulty getting pregnant.

In fact, despite the 2013 U.S. Census that records 60,397,966 women married, my friend who's a contributing writer is still single. I know her as a single, career-driven professional who simply hasn't run into prince charming and doesn't know when or if the wedding bells will ever ring.

In my circle, the women are either single or married without children. Although some of my friends are blessed with the total package, I want to focus on those of you who don't. We're hoping many women will relate, laugh, cry or be inspired to accept their situation and most importantly gain strength if they're missing the ring and the baby.