Deep breaths. Tomorrow is Mother's Day, one of the many holiday landmines scattered across our calendars, as we gingerly step between days and weeks hoping to avoid an emotional explosion. I've had many different reflections of Mother's Day over the years. In 2009, right after … Read More »
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 fibroid, turns out I had a uterine … Read More »
A Little Pre-Op PTSD
With this writing, this now makes the fifth time I have tried to write this post. Each time I have just been wrecked, emotionally, trying to write this. But I'm sticking to my guns and finishing it now, because I really need to, to work through some stuff emotionally. I may … Read More »
A Confluence of Motherhood This Mother’s Day
Mother's Day is this weekend. Bet that totally fell off your radars, right? Ha ha, just kidding. This date looms large on the calendar for practically every woman who's ever experienced infertility. Last year, Mother's Day hit me in the gut, this suckerpunch reminder of … Read More »
We have an egg donor.
After 3 years, our infertility journey is finally moving forward! I've had this post sitting in my drafts folder for almost two months now, trying to figure out the best way to post this news. If I should post about this news at all. I know, it sounds funny that I wouldn't … 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 »
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 »
Three Years of Blogging and Meeting Bloggers IRL: It’s Amazeballs.
Today is my 3-year blogoversary. On March 30, 2009, I started blogging at Hannah Wept, Sarah Laughed. I wrote under my Hebrew name then. My, how things have changed. For a long time, the most I ever connected with folks online has been through my various internet … Read More »
When the Wound Has Healed, a Scar Remains
Three years ago, on March 18, I was diagnosed with infertility. I have written about that moment: opening the email from my doctor and reading those words that changed my life - many times here at this blog. March 18th is known as D-Day in our house, for Diagnosis Day. In … Read More »
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