The Fertile Heart™Revolution with Julia

My take on the latest infertility treatment published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences A 30 year old woman, along with twenty six other infertility patients, recently had her ovaries surgically removed, cut into small cubes and then placed into her fallopian tubes after the ovarian tissue had been treated with egg-stimulating drugs.  The […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]