Struggling With Infertility? The 3 Word Question That Goes Sadly Unanswered When you decide to seek fertility treatment, everyone under the sun has advice on which doctors to see, alternative medicine to incorporate, and every baby making success theory under the sun. Yet, not one article, doctor, friend, or otherwise is likely to ask the […]
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I have to confess that in the early days of my journey, I developed an appetite for stories of “baby victory,” from the fertility front lines. Whether in person or online, I hung on every word of each narrative as if it would be the golden ticket to navigating my own journey with ease. The
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There Was a “We” Before There Was Three First comes love, then comes marriage (maybe), then comes baby in the baby carriage? For those of us on the path to parenthood, the last part of this mildly annoying nursery rhyme can seem way more challenging than finding love or getting married (or whatever flavor your
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Ton Of Bricks, Thy Name Is Fertility Treatment! It’s no mystery that fertility treatment is often a budget crushing expense. (Goodbye vacations, adieu disposable income!) As if that wasn’t bad enough, it’s an expense that comes at a time when you are likely feeling broken, defeated, and even desperate, after trying for months, or even
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You Must Have a Game Plan For The First Meeting with Your Fertility Doctor I can hear it already, “Are you serious? What do I have to prepare for? Isn’t the doctor supposed to do all the talkin’?” What separates couples who are successful in defining their fertility journey from those who just float along
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Motherhood…Nah, I’ll Take Paris Instead? No one who knows me would ever accuse me of being outwardly maternal. While other little girls liked to play house and swaddle baby dolls, I was swept away by day dreams of traveling to far away places and doing “big” things. This desire intensified when my Mom bought me
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Baby Making… How Hard Can It Be? When I started thinking seriously about having a baby, I knew nothing short of the obvious mechanism by which conception occurred. I was woefully ignorant of the integral role things such as “egg white” cervical mucus, luteinizing hormone surges, luteal phases, progesterone levels, and thyroid function played. In
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How To Choose A Fertility Doctor When faced with a crisis of conception, our gut impulse as the fertility challenged is to want solutions NOW, or for some of us, YESTERDAY. Just getting online and finding the nearest practitioner, although convenient, could be the biggest mistake you make in the first steps on your journey.
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At the beginning of my fertility journey, I was obsessed with peeing on predictor sticks. I agonized over the number of quality eggs I had left. I fiendishly scrutinized every flutter, ache, and pain as if it was some mythical sign of pregnancy. These of course seemed like the charming, Type A concerns of any
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Taking Up the Gauntlet at 35+ During one of my manic midnight data mining expeditions on the subject of conception, on more than a few occasions my eyes spied the gentle suggestion that women over 35 should see a doctor after 6 months of unsuccessful “trying.” Despite being written in all lower caps, that ominous
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