Welcome to Day 2 of our open salon, hosted by yours truly and Pamela Mahoney Tsigdinos, author of Silent Sorority. We created this dialogue to discuss both sides of the motherhood debate from our unique perspectives. Why? We seek to parse out the concerns and vulnerabilities of … Read More »
Archives for October 2012
To “Mom” or Not to “Mom”
To Mom or Not to Mom: A 5-Day Open Salon on Infertility, Motherhood and the Silent Sorority Welcome to our open salon, hosted by yours truly and Pamela Mahoney Tsigdinos, author of Silent Sorority. We created this open salon to discuss both sides of the motherhood debate from … Read More »
Houston, We Have a 3rd Beta and an Ultrasound Date!
Just a very quicky post to update the beta trajectory. Had my third beta yesterday morning. Funny story: I got up super early, as the lab at my clinic is only open 6:30-8:15am every morning. I get there and it was literally standing room only. I've never seen so many people in … Read More »
IVF Raffles and the Disparity of Care: What Needs to Be Said
There's a piece in the NY Times this weekend about the latest infertility clinic to sponsor a raffle of an IVF cycle. And, like so many pieces on this controversial subject, it gets at the ethical dilemma of such raffles: “It is against the law to raffle off a puppy, but we’re … Read More »
Seeing Pink, Blue – and Green
For two years, I've been driving around with a box of pregnancy tests in the glove compartment of my car. Back when I was on the Board for RESOLVE New England, I grabbed one of the bright pink boxes of First Response Early Results pregnancy tests sitting in the basket for our … Read More »
Awesomesauce Around the ALI Blogosphere
This has been a crazy week, for a variety of reasons. There's a lot going on around the ALI blogosphere, so I wanted to make sure you're all in the loop. Check out all the events and fun stuff happening around the fertility web right now: The Creme de la Creme List is Now … Read More »
The Goop. Oh My G-d: the GOOP.
Gentlemen who have come to this post: you should probably leave. Ladies with weak stomachs: this is your last warning, too. Bail before you get entirely too much info about my vagina. So, I thought I was in happy Crinone town, like "Look at me! I've avoided the dreaded goop … Read More »
I’m All Shook Up
There was a 4.0 earthquake in southern Maine last night and I felt it in my house. It was kind of hard to miss, because my entire house was shaking. At first, I thought it was a truck coming down our very narrow, one-way street. Sometimes, when something as small as a UPS … Read More »
Big. Fat. Positive.
This is a photo that's been a long time coming. For those of you analyzing for line darkness, that's a 12dp3dt or 15dpo line you're looking at :) I took it the afternoon after we got our beta results back from the clinic. I figured I had finally earned my right to pee all over a … Read More »
Pregnancy & Infant Loss Awareness Day: Being in the Moment
October 15 is recognized as Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Day around the globe. Right now, around the world, people are lighting candles in memory of their lost children, of dreams unrealized, of lives unfulfilled. I know that my pregnancy announcement coincided with … Read More »