The Infertile Women of the Torah is an occasional series here at Hannah Wept, Sarah Laughed that examines the role of infertility in the Torah (Old Testament). Engraving by Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld (1851).In my last post, I introduced the idea that infertility is of cultural … Read More »
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Mommy’s Garden
A colleague of mine, a parent through adoption, shared a beautiful story of a friend of hers who decided to tell their child they were conceived using donor gametes. I want to share this with you for two reasons: 1) it's such an original way of disclosing to children about their … Read More »
Thoughts On Choosing the Donor Egg Path
Photo by Frank Monnerjahn via FlickrIVF with donor egg is a tough concept to wrap your brain around; I certainly struggled with it initially. We've certainly flip-flopped around in our family building plans in the two years since I was diagnosed: donor egg, adoption, then back to … Read More »
5 Infertility Books for Great Summer Reads
Welcome to the first of a 5-part* series of infertility book reviews to be published every other Friday this summer! While there are many books about infertility out there, I wanted to highlight a handful of some newer titles and some old classics. These books aren’t exactly … Read More »
Infertility News Highlights
You may have heard after last night's Khloe and Lamar season finale that Khloe Kardashian is "freaking out" about possible infertility after spending a year of trying to get pregnant with husband Lamar Odom. But did you also hear about Tiffany Alleman, Mrs. Utah 2011, whose … Read More »
WBZTV News: Infertility Doesn’t Just Affect Older Women
Check it out! Here's the news piece from WBZ-TV, Boston's CBS news station, on our story of infertility and how my younger age plays a factor. Reporter Christina Hager has put together a really compassionate piece and I'm so honored and grateful that she reached out to me for her … Read More »
The Power of 1000 Women
I recently discovered EmpowHer, a women's health website. I was intrigued by their 1000 Women campaign, a massive effort to reach 1,000,000 women online to create a huge social media women's health advocacy movement. From their website:Through our 1000Women campaign, EmpowHER is … Read More »
The Infertile Women of The Torah: Infertility in Biblical Judaism
Marc Chagall (1956):Hannah prays to the Lord for a son who will be SamuelMy page titled Who Are Hannah and Sarah? consistently gets the second highest number of views on this blog, besides the main page. It makes sense: neither are my name so the page outlines from … Read More »
I Beg to Differ, Max: Infertility is NOT a Social Condition
I saw a curious tweet on Thursday last week from @maxpemberton in my infertility feed on Hoot Suite: @randomtwitteruser It's about IVF and infertility funding in the NHS *gulp* So I clicked to see the conversation and this was the tweet that preceded it: So when I saw his … Read More »
A Snapshot of Our Infertility Journey Thus Far
Photo by Tim Regan, via Flickr.So often I'm writing about all the big picture things in the infertility world: advocacy efforts, ranting about the media, and the like - sometimes I forget to remember that ultimately, I started this blog to chronicle our personal journey … Read More »
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