Tuesday, October 2, 2012
Prenatal Vitamins: Do You Really Need Them? In an ideal world of nutrient rich soil and a diet of wild plants, daily herbal infusions, and organically grown foods, prenatal supplements, or supplements in general, would be obsolete. But in spite of controversial studies and myriad opinions, the majority of holistically minded health practitioners vote in […]
Tuesday, October 2, 2012
Pregnancy and Fertility: The Next Trail of the Fertility Journey: Is a Doula Right for You? by Julia Indichova As I see it, hiring a Doula, whether a labor or post partum Doula or both, can be immensely helpful. The right Doula is like Ultimate Mom incarnate when you most need her. I’m hoping that this […]
Friday, August 24, 2012
In the last few months, lots of attention is focused on wannabe dads. Does food really matter? First, we received the startling news that what men eat or whether they smoke or drink doesn’t affect their fertility. Sperm counts, sperm morphology, overall semen quality won’t change, claimed the researchers, if you load up on junk […]
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
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 […]
Thursday, May 3, 2012
Your first book Inconceivable was based on your personal experience? Yes, in 1992, at the age of forty two, I was diagnosed with an allegedly “untreatable” hormonal issue. At the time I went to see a number of reproductive endocrinologists and pretty much all of them agreed that my that my last good egg […]
Sunday, March 25, 2012
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 […]