Cookie & Connections

A cozy holiday gathering for those experiencing infertility to connect, share sweet treats & find support with people who understand.

Cookies & Connections 🎄🤍 Hosted by Durham Infertility Village

Cookies & Connections is a cozy holiday gathering created for those experiencing infertility to meet, connect and spend time with people who truly understand the journey.

Infertility can feel incredibly isolating, especially during the holidays. This event is about creating a comfortable, judgment-free space where you don't have to explain what you're going through. Come as you are, meet new people, share some laughs and enjoy an evening surrounded by a community that gets it. 🤍

🍪 Cookie Exchange

Each guest is asked to bring 4 dozen of their favourite homemade cookies or desserts to share. You'll make your way around the cookie exchange, choosing treats from the different selections and filling your own take-home box.

Once you know what you're bringing, you'll also be invited to submit your recipe. Recipes will be collected into a custom Cookies & Connections recipe book for guests to take home as a keepsake from the evening.

🎀 Decorate Your Cookie Box

Boxes will be provided! Personalize your take-home cookie box with festive ribbons, stickers, markers and other decorations before filling it with treats from the exchange.

🥂 Signature Holiday Drink

Sip on our festive alcohol-free cranberry signature drink while you decorate, mingle and get to know others in the infertility community.

🤍 More Than a Cookie Exchange

The cookies may bring us together, but connection is the heart of the evening.

Whether you're newly navigating infertility, going through testing, treatments or IVF, experiencing loss, exploring surrogacy or another path to parenthood, or simply needing people who understand—you are welcome here.

There is no pressure to share more than you're comfortable with. Come to talk, listen, laugh, make a new friend or simply spend an evening where you don't feel alone in what you're going through.

Sweet treats. Real people. Meaningful connections.

Welcome to the Village. 🤍