The Infertility Voice™

An Online Hub for the Infertility Community — by the Infertility Community

  • Welcome!
    • About This Blog
    • About Keiko
  • Keiko’s Journey
    • My IVF Cycle
    • My Pregnancy
    • My Son’s Birth Story
    • New Parenthood
  • Knowledge
    • Family-Building Options
      • IVF
      • Surrogacy
      • The Mind-Body Connection
      • Moving Beyond Parenting
      • Empowered Fertility Treatment Options
      • Open-Hearted Adoption
    • Financial Assistance
    • PCOS
    • POF/POI
      • Living with POF Guide
      • Facts About POF
      • Donor Conception
  • Empowerment
    • What IF: A Portrait of Infertility
    • Advocacy & Awareness
    • National Infertility Awareness Week (NIAW)
    • RESOLVE Advocacy Day
    • Defeating Personhood
  • Healing
    • Mental Health
    • Mind Body Soul
    • Miscarriage & Loss
  • Hope
    • Community
    • Pregnancy & Parenting After Infertility

Keiko's Journey

The Infertility Voice™ first started as Editor-in-Chief Keiko Zoll's personal infertility blog, Hannah Wept, Sarah Laughed in 2009, shortly after her diagnosis of premature ovarian failure. Here is the record of her personal journey from infertility to motherhood from 2009 through 2013.

CD19 Meets CD1: Wordless Wednesday

Sep. 12, 2012 by Keiko Zoll

What our "genetic" child might have looked like.

Big news, folks. It's officially our donor's Cycle Day 1. *squeeee!!* Team Zoll: Houston? Are we ready for launch? Houston: Mission TZ3, you are cleared for launch. Begin countdown sequence. That means tomorrow, she starts in on her box o'fertility drugs, … Read More »

Donor Conception, Features, Healing, In Treatment, Keiko's Infertility Journey, Knowledge, My IVF Cycle

CD17: The wavelength unseen.

Sep. 11, 2012 by Keiko Zoll

Our cycle continues to march forward with a steady pace. Our donor has finished her birth control pills, so her CD1 should be any day now. We're still on target for a 9/22 retrieval, 9/25 transfer. My RE has upped my estrogen. I'm now taking 6 mg daily in addition to wearing … Read More »

Features, Healing, Hope, In Treatment, Keiko's Infertility Journey, Knowledge, Mind Body Soul, My IVF Cycle

CD11: Ooooooooh Hormones.

Sep. 5, 2012 by Keiko Zoll

Keiko Kaboom

You so crazy. I now have a patch on my ass that's as big as the palm of my hand. There is nothing subtle about it as it continuously pumps estrogen into my blood stream. Well, just as soon as it gets through all my ass fatness (assness?). The hormonal train has left the … Read More »

Features, Healing, In Treatment, Keiko's Infertility Journey, Knowledge, My IVF Cycle

CD7: A power ballad and a prayer.

Sep. 1, 2012 by Keiko Zoll

Ultrasound went well yesterday morning and I got my med update from my clinic late yesterday afternoon. Looks like we're upping the estrogen to pad out the 'ute. Tomorrow, I'll go from 1mg of oral estradiol twice a day (half a pill daily) to 2mg twice daily (2 whole pills each … Read More »

Donor Conception, Empowerment, Features, Healing, In Treatment, Keiko's Infertility Journey, Knowledge, Mind Body Soul, My IVF Cycle, Uncategorized

CD6: “No woman came up to me.”

Aug. 31, 2012 by Keiko Zoll

Keiko's Blossom Faze

For those playing along at home, Cycle Day 6 ultrasound and blood work updates/results will be posted at the very bottom of this post just as soon as I hear back from my clinic. I grew up watching Blossom. I had my own Blossom hat. In fact, here's proof: (That pic, FYI, … Read More »

Advocacy & Awareness, Defeat Personhood, Empowerment, Features, In Treatment, Keiko's Infertility Journey, Knowledge, My IVF Cycle

CD5: Time to act.

Aug. 30, 2012 by Keiko Zoll

The Family Act of 2011 Needs Your Help

Hey, did you know fertility treatments are expensive? Let me clue you in our a little scenario that's been eating away at us. So, we live in this great Commonwealth of Massachusetts and my fertility treatments are covered by my insurance, as mandated by state law. Piece. O. … Read More »

Advocacy & Awareness, Empowerment, Features, Finances & Insurance, In the News, In Treatment, Keiko's Infertility Journey, Knowledge, My IVF Cycle

CD4: A slice of random.

Aug. 29, 2012 by Keiko Zoll

I made my first quiche last night: Martha Stewart's very easy broccoli and cheddar quiche. Not too shabby. Aunt Flo is slowly making her exit, but she's taking her sweet ass time about it. It's like she's got to go through every room of our house, double-checking … Read More »

Donor Conception, Features, Healing, In Treatment, Keiko's Infertility Journey, Knowledge, My IVF Cycle

CD3: Choose wisely, grasshopper.

Aug. 28, 2012 by Keiko Zoll

Last night, after a crazy busy day, Larry and I needed Chinese. We needed it hard. As much as I love Beverly Jade, I have to remember: I do not like their crab rangoon. And yet, like the macaroni and cheese at Boston Market, the mashed potato bowls from Wawa or the three … Read More »

Donor Conception, Features, In Treatment, Keiko's Infertility Journey, Knowledge, My IVF Cycle

CD2: Pillpoppa

Aug. 27, 2012 by Keiko Zoll

Last blog post of the day, I swear. In an effort to fully document this madness that is our first donor egg IVF cycle, I will be posting daily* with my CD numbers and various and sundry commentary as we get closer to retrieval and transfer, scheduled for mid-September. As in, … Read More »

Donor Conception, Features, In Treatment, Keiko's Infertility Journey, Knowledge, My IVF Cycle

In sanguine, veritas.

Aug. 27, 2012 by Keiko Zoll

When I was ten years old, just four days before my eleventh birthday, I awoke from my nap and headed to the bathroom, the urge to pee having woken me up. It was the first time I would see the smudge: the bright red spots stark against the white cotton lining of my panties. In … Read More »

Empowerment, Features, In Treatment, Keiko's Infertility Journey, Knowledge, Mind Body Soul, My IVF Cycle, Premature Ovarian Failure

  • « Previous Page
  • 1
  • …
  • 10
  • 11
  • 12
  • 13
  • 14
  • …
  • 35
  • Next Page »

COPYRIGHT © 2026 · The Infertility Voice™ & Keiko Zoll · All Rights Reserved · Website by Zoll Design & Communications