In case you missed it, I was featured on HuffPost Live this evening talking about insurance and infertility! Hosted by HuffPost Live producer Nancy Redd, I was joined by Dr. Sami David from Fifth Avenue Fertility and Ami Jaeger, Executive Director of the BioLaw Ethics Institute. It was a really engaging discussion but I wish it could have been at … [Read more...]
For the past two years, I've headed to Capitol Hill to speak up for the infertility community, courtesy of RESOLVE. For a whirlwind 24 hours, I walked all over Capitol Hill spreading the message that infertility is a disease and that the needs of infertility patients matter. I got to meet my elected officials in person. Hell, I even got a photo … [Read more...]
It's National Infertility Awareness Week and RESOLVE: The National Infertility Association wants all of us to join the movement. If you asked me four years ago if I would ever join a movement for infertility, I would have laughed heartily at the suggestion. But the truth is: it's the movement that's kept me going. But what does "joining the … [Read more...]
This was me three years ago: I's funny to go back and watch this video, to think about all the things that are different in my life now. The fact that we own a home instead of living in student housing where this was filmed. The three pairs of glasses I've gone through since then. Remembering, very distinctly, getting sushi with a friend … [Read more...]
You may have noticed that my website looks a bit different. That's half the reason it's been so gosh darn quiet around here; I've been very busy tinkering with all the cogs and buttons and levers that crank this site to life each day. I've been doing a lot of thinking about this space and the community that has surrounded me. I've written much … [Read more...]
Infertility affects as many as 7.3 million people in the United States alone. But what does that actually look like? Well to start, that's slightly less than the entire population of Israel. That's slightly more than the entire population of Hong Kong. Or, another way to look at it: it's the combined populations of entire nations like Moldova … [Read more...]
National Infertility Awareness Week is coming... are you ready? More importantly, are you ready to Join the Movement this year? NIAW has always had a special place in my heart. It's when I first "came out" about my infertility to a larger group of friends and colleagues, just over a month after I was first diagnosed in 2009. In 2010, it … [Read more...]
It's been quiet around here lately, no? *casts a guilty glance* I know. I know. To get you quickly up to speed: the Knish is just fine. He's very active and I believe he has waged a war against my belly button from the inside. I think he knows that I really don't want my innie to become an outie and he's on a mission to pop it out, one … [Read more...]
I have written a LOT about personhood in the last 48 hours. I'm still in the process of responding to a single comment from my first post Monday night - it's that long of a response. And in case you've missed it, here are the first two posts: The Great Big Lie About Personhood Legislation and The Other Embryos. Today, I'm boiling down the … [Read more...]
You may remember from our IVF project that was MISSION: Team Zoll #3 last year, that we transferred two embryos. They looked like this: Despite rising beta numbers that could have gone either way, only one of those two embryos implanted. And here I am, 23 weeks pregnant with a healthy boy. And about 40 minutes from my house, four … [Read more...]
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