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The Fertile Heart™Revolution with Julia

Wednesday, September 18, 2013
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Infertility: The Lie that Sells,The Price We Pay; Fertile Heart founder Julia Indichova responds to the NYT piece “Selling the Fantasy of Fertility

The authors of the NYT op-ed “Selling the Fantasy of Fertility,” were right on target when they pointed toward the seductive sales pitch of the infertility industry. What Miriam Zoll (author of Cracked Open: Liberty, and the Pursuit of High Tech Babies) and Pamela Tsigdinos failed to spot is the elephant in the room, the […]

Tuesday, September 3, 2013
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Lesson InFertility: Must Stay Busy Being Born

The great fertility specialist Bob Dylan reminds us that  “He not busy being born, is busy dying.” On this  scenic road to motherhood, if we are to keep becoming more and more fertile, we have no choice but to stay busy being born. Which unborn part of you is calling to be born at this juncture of your […]

Wednesday, June 19, 2013
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Biological Clock or Time Bomb: Fear & Self-Loathing Do Not a Fertile Female Make

Exploiting Fears of Childlessness Might Be Slick Marketing, but Will It Make Us More Fertile? Fear and self-loathing won’t make us more fertile. But turning the biological clock into a time bomb by exploiting fears of childlessness makes for an effective marketing tool. The more panicked we are the more money we’ll spend for expert help. […]

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 […]