Photo by Keiko Zoll....it feels GREAT. It's a great morning for Massachusetts. At the eleventh hour on the last day of legislative session, the Massachusetts infertility mandate update was passed favorably out of committee, and then passed the House and Senate! All we need now is … Read More »
Advocacy & Awareness
Reclaim your power with tools to advocate for your own healthcare and family-building decisions. There are many ways you can be an infertility advocate that fits your comfort level and capitalizes on your skills and talents. We all have the capacity to become empowered agents working for change.
The Mass. Infertility Mandate Needs Your Help!
If you live in Massachusetts, you have it pretty lucky when it comes to infertility coverage (unless of course your employer is self-insured). Mass. leads the nation as the gold standard for infertility coverage, but it has built up over twenty years of tarnish on its outdated … Read More »
The New England Infertility Blogger Network
Do you live or are based in the New England region (Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut)?Do you blog about infertility?Pull up a seat: we need to connect. This may look strikingly similar to a post I made last month recruiting Bay State IF … Read More »
I’m a Night of Hope Award winner!
I've been holding on to this news for over a month, and now that the eUpdate has been sent out by RESOLVE, I can finally spill the beans...RESOLVE has awarded me Best Viral Video for their annual Night of Hope Awards! I am floored, honored, and truly humbled. RESOLVE described … Read More »
House hunting, volunteering, and 2 blogs you should read now
This post is a whole mishmash of stuff. The house hunt continues, although things just got interesting with the house we made an offer on two weeks ago. They had their open house on Sunday, but no takers. Our agent talked with their agent and thinks we can make another offer on … Read More »
What IF: Two Months Later
It all started two months ago with #ProjectIF.Two months ago to the day, I posted my What IF? video online.What IF? A Portrait of Infertility on Vimeo.Two months ago, I thought I would merely post on my little corner of the internet and let the blogosphere pass me by. Two months … Read More »
June ICLW: Elementally Speaking
Howdy! Thanks for stopping by for June's ICLW. (Learn more about the ICLW here and see how you can sign up for next month.) I've got a few previous ICLW intro posts to get you up to speed: ABC's of Me (November 2009), April 2010, and May 2010. For this month's intro, I think I'll … Read More »
Dude, it’s Men’s Health Week!
Spread the word about Men's Health Awareness! Do it for your brothers, your sons, your dads, your husbands, your uncles, and your best boy buds. June is Men's Health Month and this week is Men's Health Week. It happens every year the week before and including Father's Day. I … Read More »
Examining Infertility
As I announced last week mostly via Twitter and Facebook, I've become Examiner.com's Boston Infertility and Miscarriage Examiner. Essentially, I write about all things IF in the Boston region... and they're paying me to do it! I'm rather excited about my first paid writing gig. … Read More »
Women’s Health Matters: Period.
Sit tight: this post is a doozy. I'm a Vagina Warrior. I realize this is quite a startling way to begin my post, but being a Vagina Warrior drives me, it shapes the way I look at the world, and fuels my passion for women's health advocacy. What exactly is a Vagina … Read More »
