This Book Speaks the Truth So Many Women Are Forced to Swallow Alone
“You may feel a bit of pressure.”
It’s a phrase you’ve likely heard in a sterile room, feet in stirrups, breath shallow. It's meant to soothe. To warn. To keep you quiet while something painful happens.
Amy Gallo Ryan takes that phrase—and everything it implies—and cracks it wide open in her stunning debut memoir-in-essays, You May Feel a Bit of Pressure, releasing October 21, 2025 from Unsolicited Press. And we’re here to tell you: this book is a seismic moment for women’s writing.
Infertility. A word that’s supposed to be clinical, objective. But for millions of women, it becomes identity-shattering. It becomes shameful. It becomes... invisible.
Ryan’s book refuses invisibility. It stares down the silence with raw, unfiltered honesty. With tenderness. With fury. With grace. She guides us through the jagged terrain of unexplained infertility, where hope and grief live side by side, and where every test, every injection, every month that ends in heartbreak is endured with gritted teeth and a brave face.
But beneath that brave face? Rage. Confusion. Disappointment. Isolation. And still—love. Still, desire. Still, a fight.
In You May Feel a Bit of Pressure, Ryan puts language to what so many women carry alone. She writes about the betrayal of her own body, the slow erosion of trust in herself, and the unbearable quiet of unanswered questions. She writes for the women who’ve sat in waiting rooms full of baby bumps while their own arms ache with emptiness. She writes for those who’ve smiled through baby showers and screamed in their car afterward.
This is not a book that wraps infertility in a pretty bow. There’s no triumphant soundtrack here. There’s blood. There’s doubt. There’s loneliness. And there’s truth. Beautiful, brutal, badly-needed truth.
We need books like this—books that name the things we’ve been told to whisper about. Books that scream against the silence. Books that remind women they are not broken. That they are not alone.
To anyone who’s ever asked “Why not me?”
To anyone who’s been told to “just relax.”
To anyone who’s been fed silence instead of answers—
This book is for you.
And to Amy Gallo Ryan: thank you for your courage. Thank you for your words. Thank you for turning pressure into power.
Preorder You May Feel a Bit of Pressure now through Unsolicited Press or your favorite indie bookstore. Let’s make noise. Let’s break the silence.
Let’s start telling the whole truth.
Preorder Now — Because Women Deserve to Be Heard
You May Feel a Bit of Pressure is more than a memoir—it’s a mirror for millions of women navigating the silent heartbreak of infertility. Preorder your copy today and be part of the movement to shatter stigma, amplify women’s voices, and make space for truth.
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Let’s tell the world: our pain, our stories, our bodies—deserve the mic.
