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Thursday, June 13, 2013
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Hey Dad: A Card from the Not Yet Born Child

  Happy Father’s Day to all FertileHearted Dads! I’m thinking of Jon, Annabelle’s Dad who  became a father the second time around just this week. Welcome Otis!  (If you need inspiration, you can read that family’s stunning story) And as I began thinking of all the dads celebrating for the first time after a long, long wait: Tom, Jason, and Josh and– so many […]

Monday, May 13, 2013
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Lesson In-Fertility: Life as the One Teacher Who Is Not Afraid to Be Unpopular

The most unpopular teacher during my high school days was an elderly woman, we’ll call her Mrs. Green. Mrs Green taught literature and every couple of weeks she assigned a paper about a poem or short story or about one of her favorite writers. The thing about these essays was that after we handed them […]

Tuesday, May 7, 2013
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How does Orphan Annie become a Mommy? A Mother’s Day Gift for All

A Mother’s Day Gift for All Flowingly Fertile Red Satin Mamas! You know we really did conceive our inconceivable baby on red sheets. True,  they were red flannel sheets.  Not sure why I didn’t go for satin. But it worked! As every year, the emails with subject lines, ”Coping with Mother’s Day,”  Infertility and Mother’s Day: Tips […]

Tuesday, April 30, 2013
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Infertility: The Fertile Heart Reality Check

Infertility can certainly FEEL like a CRUEL punishment. The Orphans in us can come up with 10,00 reasons to see it as such.  And if that is the truth you want to live, you’ll find masses of supporters to march to that tune with you. But wouldn’t it make more sense to do a little reality check? Wouldn’t make a whole […]

Thursday, April 25, 2013
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Fertility Game Changer Time; Let’s Ditch the Victim Game & Slip Into Our Visionary Mama Suits

The Fertile Heart Approach to Raising Awareness: Aha Moments from the Fertile Heart Community Chat Our Fertile Heart Free Community Chat last night was a joy to be part of. These are a few aha moments from the two sessions that are just too good not to share, mostly because I suspect they might help clear […]

Tuesday, April 16, 2013
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Fertile Prayers: Boston Marathon Bombing & Parenting for Peace

Fertile Prayers: Boston Bombing, Orphan Rage and Visionary Anger; Parenting for Peace       Rage, rage if I send you away, you’ll be back another day…That was the chant we sang in our Fertile Heart Visionary Mama teleconference yesterday as we talked about the anger and rage that is rising up for many of us on this […]