I am kind of on “the other side” now. Not there quite yet, but not in the trenches of infertility either. This new normal is strange and wonderful. I’m happy and still a little scared. I will be until the babies are here in my arms. I am just feeling like a fish out of …
Speak your mind. Speak your heart. “There is only one thing more powerful than all the armies of the world, that is an idea whose time has come.” – Victor Hugo Guess what? It’s time! You wouldn’t think that reproductive rights and access to healthcare would be such a novel idea, but it’s not obvious …
Advocacy Day is almost here. I will be headed to Washington, D.C. next week to meet up with women and men from across the country to raise our voice together to talk about infertility with Congress. As part of a community blogging experience, some of the attendees are answering the five questions below about Advocacy …
Infertility gets its day in the spotlight! I woke up Thursday morning just as shocked as my family and friends to see Erick and I smack dab in the middle of the front page of The Roanoke Times. View the entire front page here. Go here to read the story. Earlier in the week, I …
This week, during National Infertility Awareness Week, I want to acknowledge some people that have made a huge impact on me throughout this journey. People who have inspired me in some way. Laura Laura was my IVF angel. My clinic put me in touch with her because she had unused medications and wanted to donate …
I couldn’t have gotten through all of these years of infertility without a support group. Without other women just like me, struggling and anguishing over the same thing. Most of my support groups are online groups and I have become really close friends with these women. We share with another and we support one another. …
Recently, President Obama was quoted as saying “To change Washington, you, the American people, are going to have to sustain some passion about this.” It got me thinking that this is what we, the infertility community, have to do as well. Change doesn’t come easy and not only should we all consider contributing in some …
I recently watched an episode of Chicago Fire, where one of the characters wants to become a single mother and is contemplating an insemination. She says that she can’t afford the $10,000 price tag for insemination. I almost jumped out of my chair when I heard this. There’s no way, no how that an IUI …
I went to Charleston, SC last weekend to meet up with several girls from an online infertility support group that I’ve been a part of since 2009. It’s hard to believe that I have been friends with these girls for four years and we had never met in person yet. Well, we finally changed that! …
So we all know people that say, “Have you ever thought of adopting?” Not really helpful, but ok. They usually mean well for the most part. But then, when that morphs into something more judgmental, more ignorant and more arrogant — it crosses the line. It goes something like this… I don’t know why you …
