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Monday, May 18, 2015

Infertility: Finding Faith on the Baby Making Trail

FindingFaith is the username of one of our bravest Moms; a gifted writer who wrote that great  Over Forty Trying to Conceive Lament on the Over Forty Trying to Conceive Forum. I also responded to you on the forum and this,  is the rest of my  response to you. Dear FindingFaith, Do you really want to […]

Thursday, February 19, 2015

Her Hellacious IVF: Infertility, IVF and the Words We Live by

We construct our lives and the world we live in, with words. Hellacious—a word used by a journalist whose work continues to enliven the activist in me—to describe her IVF journey, was an adjective not in my active vocabulary.

Wednesday, July 23, 2014

The Album of Our Clan: War is Messy,That’s Just the Way It Is

They tell me war is messy. It’s a mess, they say, that involves the death of children. That’s just the way it is and we must seek out the murderers and wipe them off the face of the earth.They tell me  I need to be careful when  posting a picture of a dead child of […]

Wednesday, July 9, 2014

Fertility Treatments, When They Heal & When They Harm: A Priceless Lesson In Fertility

Whether it’s repeated failed IVF’s, or recurrent miscarriages, or so called “advanced maternal age” or high FSH and low  AMH, or any other diagnosis you’re wrestling with, this story can give you hope. There are  lessons in this highly connceivable story that can be useful not only to women and men facing reproductive challenges, but to all […]

Monday, June 23, 2014

Amy Klein’s NYT Fertility Diary: The One Place She Didn’t Look

I do understand the blinding desperation that compels us to run from one savior to the next. But no, Amy, yours is not the story about what’s humanly possible.

Wednesday, June 18, 2014

Not Inconceivable for a Second: One Mom’s Story of Overcoming “Secondary Infertility”

My Dr. was very kind and direct. She said that she would recommend trying IUI 3 times and then “give up and either adopt or use a donor egg.”