A Journey Out Loud or Comfortably Mum? As if navigating the reality of infertility wasn’t challenging enough, the question of what to tell family, friends, co-workers, and other inquiring minds when the stork has been conspicuously absent from making a delivery at your house, cruelly adds to the vertiginous heap of anxiety already piling up […]
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As Gorgeous As A Lab Rat Poked, prodded, bloated, cranky, heartbroken, and engaged in a terrifying level of intimacy with a sonogram probe, knee deep in my fertility journey, I felt about as gorgeous as a lab rat. My skin broke out, my pants were tight, and I had a couple small bald patches on
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Bullied by Infertility? The avalanche of insecurity that comes as a stinking “free gift with purchase” during fertility treatment can rock the self esteem of even the most grounded and confident amongst us. Think about it. Even before you stepped into your doctor’s office for the first time, you have endured repeated kicks to the
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We’re Infertile, Have We Met? Now that you have the tools to craft your response to the 3 word game changing question, anyone living with infertility must answer, you are well on your way to defining your journey. But, if you have a partner, with whom you plan to build your family, the work doesn’t
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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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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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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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