Archive for the ‘Infertility’ Category
Please Mind The Gap by Andrea Santo Felcone
February 28th, 2017
On a recent trip to New York City, traveling by train, my little one was getting agitated. He doesn’t like to be told what to do. The automated announcer advising “be careful when exiting the train” and “please mind the gap” at every station stop was driving him crazy. Finally, ...
Guest Blog Post: From Infertility to Hope and Beyond by Michele Talamo (a later mom)
February 9th, 2015
My story begins with the joy and happiness of getting married at 37 year old (my husband was 39). We both wanted a family for so long and now was our chance to start one! Easy right? or so we thought! I was fortunate to get pregnant the second month ...
GUEST BLOG POST: How My Infertility Empowered Me by Heather Step
January 9th, 2014
Infertility can make a person feel profoundly weak and powerless in the face of repeated failures, the passing years and a loss of hope for the child you so long for. Some of the events that can feel like a shot to the gut include your period arriving again, or ...
The Long, Personal Journey of Surrogacy – By Melissa B. Brisman, Reproductive Lawyer
November 21st, 2013
We began with a visit to the doctor's office on Christmas Eve. Dan and I listened as he explained the medical procedure. The science, he told us, was the easy part. Our chances were over 50 percent each cycle; however, we would need to find a carrier who was both ...
Sufficiently Whelmed: A Journey with Infertility – By Beckie Dyck, Blogger, Beckie’s Infertility Journey
November 21st, 2013
Infertility has taught me a lot about life in the last few years. There hasn’t been a day that has passed that I haven’t thought about how infertility has impacted my decisions and who I have become as a person. Obviously infertility isn’t the only thing that defines me as ...
Adventures in Attachment Parenting: Infertility Awareness Charley’s Story by Allison Silver
April 25th, 2013
I recently found out that April is Infertility Awareness Month. Since this is a topic that many of us older moms deal with I thought I would take a few minutes with you and share my story. Like many girls my period began when I was twelve and seemed pretty regular. ...
GUEST BLOG POST: Consent to Freeze: Reading the IVF Fine Print by Carolyn Savage, author, Inconceivable
May 15th, 2011
Our names will be forever connected with one of the most significant medical errors ever made inside a fertility clinic. In February 2009, through a process referred to as a frozen embryo transfer, another couple's embryos were mistakenly transferred into my body. Eight months later, I gave birth to a ...
Infertility and Friends — by Laura
April 13th, 2010
I spent five years trying to get pregnant. Desperately. It was the most painful thing I have ever been through, and when the test finally came back positive, the world seemed like and all-you-can-eat buffet of joy. But not everybody was happy for me. And I understand why.When I was ...
