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Thursday, October 21, 2010
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IVF: The Heavy Cost of the Nobel Prize

For the 4 million children conceived through in-vitro-fertilization, the 2010 Nobel Prize for Medicine, awarded on October 4th, is understandably, good news. Congratulatory statements are also pouring in from advocacy groups, fellow physicians, prominent parenting blogs. How this news plays out in the unfolding story of Assisted Reproduction and its role in shaping our healthcare, […]

Saturday, June 5, 2010
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The Fertility Lottery: Playing to Win

I’m in the midst of recording my next imagery CD and what I thought would be a three-session–production, has turned into three weeks of editing and additional rerecording yet to be done. So once again, the blog was on hold, until two wonderful Fertile Heart™ moms sent a couple of emails that set my soul […]

Thursday, December 17, 2009
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Rebels with a Cause: Unbiased Infertility Advocacy-An Oxymoron

Thankfully, the December 6th Fertile Heart workshop was, as most workshops in the last few years, fully booked, with a list of names on the waiting list. A few days after the workshop I received several moving emails. One of them came from an aspiring dad. Hi Julia, It’s R.D. from last Sunday’s workshop. I […]

Sunday, December 6, 2009
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The Miracle of IVF: At 49 the Oldest First-Time-Pregnant-with-Her-Own-Egg-In-Vitro-Mom

What Do We Celebrate? A 49 year old woman gave birth last month to a baby conceived with the help of IVF using her own egg, at the New Hope Fertility Center, a Park Avenue fertility clinic founded by Dr. John Zhang. She becomes the oldest first-time-in-vitro-mom on record. Undeniably, this is a cause for […]

Thursday, November 12, 2009
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Fertility: A Definition of the Heart

How we perceive ourselves, the stories we construct around the challenges life places in our path, the ideas we perpetuate and the words we use – they don’t just shape our experience. They are carved into our cells and determine the consistency of our Holy Human Loaves. They disrupt our ever fluctuating hormone levels. So […]