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Tuesday, May 15, 2012
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Birth-Defect Risk Seen in Assisted Reproduction: Tilting the Scale toward a Roof-Raising-Pregnancy and Game-Changer Child

The Fertile Heart response to the May 10, 2012 Fertility Study in New England Journal of Medicine.   Yes, the Australian study published last week in the New England Journal of Medicine, which showed a 28% greater risk of birth defects in children conceived with fertility treatment, is the largest to date. The findings however are nothing new. […]

Wednesday, May 9, 2012
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Fertile Heart Mother’s Day Extravaganza: Ditch the Coping and Get Some Red Satin!

How does Orphan Annie become a Mommy? You know we really did conceive our inconceivable baby on red sheets. True  they were red flannel sheets.  Not really 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 for Dealing with […]

Tuesday, May 1, 2012

A Mom is Born: The Fertile Heart™ Road to Egg Donation as a Journey of Healing

Egg Donation without Eggsploitation I’m honored to be posting this stunning journey on the egg donation path, surely a story filled with  many a priceless lessons in-fertility. Since Fertile Heart is a community focused on a radically holistic view of fertility, I can’t post this narrative without noting that egg donation, the recruitment of egg donors and the link between […]

Wednesday, April 4, 2012
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A Safe and Fertile Space: The Howling Orphans and Fledgling Visionaries in Our Fertile Hearts.

This happened long ago and far away. Or maybe just yesterday. It’s a story worth telling. We’ll call her Laila. It was circle time. The irony of something Laila said, struck me and I responded with what I thought was a lighthearted comment.  I anticipated laughter in response. Instead, my words hit a nerve. Laila […]

Monday, January 30, 2012
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The Fertile Heart Way to Pregnancy, Birth, and Motherhood

Using the Fertile Heart Ovum tools to support you through pregnancy, birth and motherhood. Congratulations, you’re pregnant! I still remember quite vividly the fist time I heard those words! Pregnancy for everyone, but especially when you’ve been on a scenic road to motherhood, can be such a thrill that you feel you have reached your […]

Monday, January 30, 2012
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An Overview of Natural, Holistic Fertility Treatments

Natural Fertility Treatments – Don’t Leave Out the Fertility Expert Within Below is a description of a number of holistic fertility treatments. An important note: Engaging advisers—whether they’re fertility doctors, or practitioners of fertility acupuncture or therapists—can be eminently useful as long as we don’t see them as anything more than our esteemed consultants. When we […]