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Your Voices + Stories
You Just Can’t Help But Laugh
By Melanie E.
Throughout our process of trying to conceive, I often watched people around me and wondered when I was next. When was it my … Read More »
Owning My Journey
Guest Post by Laura A. I am a 28-year-old woman who struggled with unexplained infertility. After two years of trying to … Read More »
Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
Guest Post by Candyce Pelfrey Kannengieser I had not always wanted children. I wasn’t born maternal. I did not like … Read More »
A Thing With Feathers
By Liz Miles
I sat in a chair at a table in the fertility clinic exam room thinking about how this would be a defining moment in my life. … Read More »
Lessons in Healing
I am a stepmother and mother of a daughter who died of SIDS in 2003, and had an ectopic pregnancy in 2004. I have also … Read More »
Feigning In/Fertility
In 2005, after miscarrying a very spontaneous pregnancy, I was told my ovaries suck. The medical term is Poly-cystic Ovarian … Read More »
From the Blog
Super Quick Post-Op Update
My hysteroscopy went well yesterday. Dr. Warmenfriendly did a fantastic job and the nursing staff at the facility were just incredible. I've never met such genuinely kind and attentive medical personel in my life. He went in to check on that … Read More »
Choose Your Own Adventure
If you want to try to have your own genetic child, turn to page 6.If you want to recruit a donor for donor eggs, turn to page 12.If you want to adopt a child, turn to page 30.---I've been mulling over how to write this entry since Friday's doctor's … Read More »
Looks Like It’s CD1
The credits rolled. The audience cheered and clapped. I shuffled out of the theatre like dozens of others, chatting away about the spectacularly crafted ending to the Dark Knight trilogy. My words trailed off as I walked mechanically into the … 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 … Read More »