Become your own fertility authority
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
What better time to launch a Visionary Moms Blog Series than the 20th anniversary of that week in April of 1992, when the number on the lab report with my FSH levels was the same as my age: 42. And wouldn’t you know it, that anniversary falls smack in the middle of National Infertility Awareness […]
I’ve been living, breathing, researching fertility since that fateful phone call in April of 1992 that pronounced me hopelessly infertile. So with the New Year, as various publications are naming their choices of the best and brightest in the field of reproductive health. I thought this would be a fine time for Fertile Heart to […]
I wasn’t perfect in all aspects of the practice, but I was me. Ovaries or not, I was still me reaching for this space that finally allowed me see that I had options to create our family. And that I wasn’t less of a mother, woman, person, catholic, or wife for seeking generosity from and egg donor.
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