It was a longer trek than I thought from the Senate building to the Metro station and I was thankful that the weather had held up so beautifully. The sun was shining, the breeze tempering just the right amount of chill to dry the tiny beads of sweat forming along my eyebrows as … 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.
New Hampshire: Call your State Senators RIGHT NOW to oppose HB217! (UPDATED)
Jump to the update below ↓ (And because the most spectacular flame war to ever hit this blog happened, comments are now turned off, for everyone's sake.) I have literally been juggling three different browser windows and on the phone with New Hampshire lawmakers … Read More »
Welcome to The Infertility Voice!
Hello hello! If you're joining me from the REDBOOK Magazine Truth About Trying Facebook Chat - welcome! Happy you've stopped by. Feel free to poke and click around. For the very newest folks to this website, I thought I'd give you a quick primer about me and what you can find … Read More »
What IF: Two Years Later
So I'm on the shuttle headed to Capitol Hill for a day of amazing advocacy with RESOLVE and it just dawned on me that a) I turn 30 in a month and b) it's been two years today since I released my What IF short film. It's kind of crazy how time flies! So to commemorate this … Read More »
Advocating for Infertility on Capitol Hill
Last year, as I walked around wide-eyed and mouth agape at the cathedral ceilings of the Senate buildings, I had this weirdly patriotic sense of pride come over me. I'm not one to wave around tiny American flags, hand-over-fisting apple pie into my face. I am grateful to be an … Read More »
Don’t ignore someone you know.
We could be strangers. We might pass each other on the street. We could be standing in line behind one another at the grocery store. We might even be sitting together in the same doctor's office waiting room. We could be watching the same movie together at the movie … Read More »
The Infertility Voice Takes Over REDBOOK for The Truth About Trying on Facebook!
Many of you might remember how I led a special Twitter chat for REDBOOK Magazine last October, #TruthAboutTrying. It tied in with their No Shame Campaign and their powerful article, The Invisible Pain of Infertility. Well, we're back for part two, and this time the … Read More »
The Little Fertility Clinic That Could… and Almost Didn’t
And now, a simple tale of one doctor's attempt to build a fertility clinic, nearly thwarted by politics this week. Naperville, Illinois is a suburb about 45 minutes west of Chicago and is home to just over 140,000 people. The median age of Naperville residents sits right … Read More »
NIAW 2012: Raise Awareness on Your Facebook Timeline!
Updated at the bottom! National Infertility Awareness Week (NIAW) is from April 22-28, 2012.It's an important week for the entire infertility community as we gather together to raise awareness for our disease. Founded by Resolve, the National Infertility Association, NIAW is a … Read More »
Speak Up & Be Heard: Infertility Advocacy Day 2012
Speak Up & Be Heard is one of my four guiding principles here at The Infertility Voice. It's one of the aspects of my infertility journey that fuels me and keeps me going. And that's why Advocacy Day 2012 is a perfect extension of Speak Up & Be Heard, because it gives … Read More »
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