A blog by Tori Emmons, August 25, 2010 – The last couple of months (maybe a few months) have felt hopeless. I’ve been unmotivated to write, unmotivated to work, pretty much just plain old unmotivated. The World Keeps Moving…
Hardship Happens
by Arika Avedano, Senior Case Manager for Northern California and Nevada, The Donor SOURCE, August 25, 2010 – IVF, especially donor IVF, can be a long and difficult road. However, there is no denying that it boasts the most…
A New Campaign for Infertility
According to a new campaign by RESOLVE: The National Infertility Association “People with Infertility Are Being Ignored.” This campaign is on the heels of Breaking the Silence of Infertility, an article in the August 2010 issue…
Thinking about Contact with Your Anonymous Donor?
a blog by Amy Demma, Prospective Families, August 18, 2010 – Recently, I was contacted by a recipient mom who needed to connect with her otherwise anonymous egg donor. She and her husband were blessed with a successful egg…
Nine Years, Three Miscarriages, 11 Fertility Treatments …
They had endured three miscarriages, ten unsuccessful attempts at fertility treatment – and nine years of heartache. But the desperate battle to have a child has finally paid off for Theresa and Dave Mechan – and the adorable…
Jennifer Aniston vs. Bill O’Reilly on Choice Motherhood
a blog by Mikki Morrissette August 16, 2010 – I still get surprised when people equate having a child on your own with deciding that men are not important. I understand why there can be the confusion. I?m just always a bit taken…
Silence and Infertility Don’t Mix
a blog by jennandtonica, August 13, 2010 – Maybe it’s because I’m a talkative person who is terrible at keeping her own secrets, but I never once considered keeping the details of our fertility treatments a secret. read more
Ask a Fertility Nurse: Does HCG Interfere with HPT?
by Gina Paoletti-Falcone, RN, BSN, Freedom Fertility Pharmacy, August 12, 2010 – Question: I have heard that the HCG injection can interfere with HPT (home pregnancy test) results. How long after I take my HCG injection can I do…
Young at Heart
A blog by Ellen Glazer, August 12, 2010 – Joyce at 34 is a documentary about a filmmaker, Joyce Chopra, who, together with her husband, decides to have a baby at age 34. There is nothing remarkable about that decision these days,…
Celebrity Infertility
Are fertility drugs the new celebrity trend? It seems like Hollywood has gone fertility crazy! Celine Dion did it (six times!), Mark McGrath is the proud father of IVF babies, Constance Marie got pregnant with a frozen embryo,…