a blog by Ellen S. Glazer, LICSW, June 25, 2010 – Your best friend is pregnant (and you are going through infertility). You are invited to a baby shower at work. You have to spend Thanksgiving with your four cousins all of…
October 10, 2012October 10, 2012
Blame Nature: It’s Hard to Get Pregnant!
a blog by Gina Paoletti-Falcone, RN, BSN, July 1, 2010 – One of the things I enjoy most about being an infertility nurse is being the tour guide through the mysterious world of reproduction. Sex education has focused on practicing…
October 10, 2012October 10, 2012
Can You Plan Passion?
by Kristen Magnacca, July 7, 2010 – Have you asked yourself how your passion to become parents brought you to such an unexpected place in your life? Or perhaps are you wondering have you lost your passion to this experience? When…
October 10, 2012October 10, 2012
Journey to Parenthood using Donor Eggs
by Donna Raidy, Director of Donor Case Management, The Donor SOURCE, July 6, 2010 – All intended parents have a journey to donor egg that could break the hardest of hearts. I thought I had heard just about all the stories with…
October 10, 2012October 10, 2012
You Know You’re a Choice Mom When…
A humorous hot topic with the Choice Moms online network this week has been creating a Top 10 list, in Jeff Foxworthy fashion, of ways we can relate to each other as single women who proactively decide to build a family on our…
October 10, 2012October 10, 2012
You CAN be a Little Bit Pregnant
a blog by Ellen S. Glazer, LICSW, June 25, 2010 – We’ve all heard it, that old adage, “You can’t be a little bit pregnant.” It?s one of those age old truths . . . or is it? Anyone going through infertility can tell you that…
October 10, 2012October 10, 2012
Who’s Afraid of the Big, Bad BFP?
a blog by jennandtonica, June 30, 2010 – Starting the battle with infertility is terrifying. Infertility treatments can be some of the most emotionally draining, fearsome things to go through. The scariest thing I’ve experienced…
October 10, 2012October 10, 2012
How Old Is Too Old to Have a Baby?
by Rachel Gurevich, June 29, 2010 You may have read or heard the news about a 66 year old woman who gave birth to triplets in India. The new mother has never had a child before, and was eager to become a mother. Meanwhile,…
October 10, 2012October 10, 2012
The IVF “Do Over”
a blog by David Kreiner, M.D., F.A.C.O.G., East Coast Fertility, June 28, 2010 – I was at a college graduation party for Rebeka, one of the first IVF babies I ever helped create. Her parents and grandparents beamed with pride,…
October 10, 2012October 10, 2012
PCOS and Miscarriage
a blog by Eric Levens, M.D., Shady Grove Fertility Center, June 25, 2010 – Over the course of the last several weeks, I’ve been blogging about PCOS. It?s one of the most common conditions I treat. One question that comes up all…