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Cervical Health Awareness Month 2012
The hope is that every January women from around the world will pause and remember that they have a cervix! The fact is that many women have never seen their own cervix, and…
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“Honey, It’s Time!” The Male Side of Baby-Making Sex
Sex is not a dirty word, and it is one of the words that is the least spoken in the world of infertility. Ironic isn’t it? I mean, everyone knows that babies are…
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“The Short End of The Stick”: Infertility, Gifts, and Inheritance
It happened again the other day. A woman struggling with infertility posted on Facebook that she always gets “The short end of the stick” because she does not have children. I believe her,…
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Thinking of Getting Pregnant in 2012? Or Are You Still On The Conception Fence?
One of my coaching clients is a single woman who started to see me because she wanted to have a better relationship with her sexuality and her body. Fertility was an issue for…
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Child Free Vs. Child Less
The other day I wrote a blog called The Choice NOT to have a Baby, Even When You Really Want One, inspired by a blog post by Savvy Auntie, Melanie Notkin. This inspired…
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The Choice NOT To Have a Baby (Even When You Really Want One)
This week in one of my fertility coaching sessions with one of my clients, we explored the possibility of not moving ahead with IVF, and what it would be like to stop infertility…
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Don’t Wait Too Long For a Second Opinion When TTC
People tend to find The Fertility Advocate blog or call me for fertility coaching when they are feeling stuck, or frightened on their infertility journey. I become their beacon of light during what…
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Are You Waiting For a Holiday Conception Miracle?
Dear Readers: It it is time of year that I am bring out all of my most favorite blogs! This is one of my all time favorites. What do you think? With Love,…
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Do You Imagine Your Child To Be?
Dear Readers: Every year around November I post my most favorite personal writing about my own experience with infertility. I have to be honest. I love this entry as much today as I…
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Sexual Pleasure Can Increase Conception
The other night I spoke to a group of women who were trying to conceive in Connecticut. It was a wonderful evening filled with laughter and information. I got the feeling that no…
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Auntie Up!
I love Melanie Notkin, and her creation Savvy Auntie which is a website and now a book. What touches me so deeply about Melanie is how she took what could feel like an…
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The Infertility Mid-Life Surprise
I was walking with a new friend at a retreat center. I was there researching my new book on Re Charging your life. When the conversation turned to what I did – and…
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Infertility and Thanksgiving
I am just back from a retreat at The Chopra Center in San Diego. David Simon, MD the co-founder of The Chopra Center and Deepak Chopra’s partner is dying from a brain tumor…
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Does Infertility Make You Feel Sexually Discarded?
Once upon a time, I felt sexually discarded. I didn’t feel like anyone noticed me anymore as a sexual being. Maybe it was the years of infertility treatment – the bloating from hormones,…
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Can You Fix The Human Egg?
Louise Brown the first IVF child conceived is now an adult and a mother. So much has changed since her conception and birth – and yet so much has stayed the same. When…
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Egg Freezing for Many Is a Gamble Worth Taking
Elizabeth Cohen, the Senior Health Correspondent for CNN just published a wonderful article on egg freezing called “Freezing Your Eggs – The Costs and Other Realities” on CNN’s Empowered Patient” Blog. It is…
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Get Your Free Donor Sperm!
Did you see the cover of Newsweek? The headline is “You Got Your Sperm Where?” I have been up and down the world of fertility for over two decades – and they got…
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The Vulnerbility of Being a Patient: The Importance of Having an Advocate
It was one of those days that one does not think about very much. My husband and I got up early. I had to go have root canal – and I have been…
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Is Menopause an Evolutionary Relic?
The big buzz in the world of fertility this week is not a new story – but the provocative cover art of a naked pregnant 60 plus year old woman on the cover…
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Putting Yourself First While Going Through Infertility
Sometimes we get lost in a quest. I don’t care whether it is the desire to conquer infertility and have a baby or something else. We can get so wrapped up and single…
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One Simple Tip To Survive Infertility
I know infertility. I survived it – and not because I reached my dreams of having children. There is so much to survive when you come up against infertility – and I survived…
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Gays, Lesbians and Unmarried People Accessing Reproductive Medicine More and More!
I had a rip roaring fight with a woman in a Starbucks the other day. A gay couple came in with their baby, a gorgeous little girl around six months old and they…
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Infertility Does Not Have To Wreck Your Sex Life and Self Image
One of the hardest part of trying to conceive is what it can do to your sex life. I remember being told that I had “Hostile Cervical Mucus”…..now isn’t that hot? “Come on…
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Legal Questions Answered on The Baby Selling Scheme
Thomas Pinkerton, Esq of The Reproductive Law Center read my blog, called The Theresa Erickson Baby Selling Ring: The After Shocks Are Just Beginning and offered to answer the questions that I raised…
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The Voice of The Surrogates in The Theresa Erickson Baby Selling Scandal
Andrew Vorzimer Esq just posted an incredible blog on his site The Spin Doctor where he gives insight into what has been going on for the surrogates in the Theresa Erickson baby selling…
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The Theresa Erickson Baby Selling Ring: The After-Shocks Are Just Beginning..
My day yesterday, and now today has been filled with being a media resource for print and television around all things Theresa Erickson: “baby selling”, Surrogacy and egg donation. This is not…
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Made To Order Babies: When Reproductive Medicine Breaks the Law
I have known Theresa Erickson as a distant colleague for years. She joined the board of directors of The American Fertility Association after I left the organization that I founded as the first…
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Can Your Sex Toys Cause Infertility?
Do you have a vibrator, dildo or any other rubber sex toy in the house? Are you trying to conceive? Then you need to read this post – actually even if you are…
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What Gay Men and Lesbians Need to Know About Egg Donation and Surrogacy
I have been doing more and more fertility coaching for Gay Men and Lesbians who are looking for support in building their families. LGBT Family Building is not new – but I am…
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Donor Children: Nature or Nurture for “The Perfect Child”
I feel like it is Third Party Reproduction Week here at The Fertility Advocate. Donor eggs, Donor Sperm, Embryo Donation, and Surrogacy are big issues for the infertility community. And an issue that…
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What You Need to Know if You Are Thinking About Becoming a Gestational Surrogate?
My blog yesterday about recipient couples giving thanks to their sperm, egg, embryo and surrogates brought in a lot of private quires to my fertility coaching practice. Most of the interest was from…
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The Importance of Being a Donor or Surrogate
There is a Facebook Page up dedicated to gathering thank you letters to egg donors in the United Kingdom. It’s called “Letter to Our Donor” . The purpose of the initiative is to…
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Resources for Living with Uncertain Outcomes
Life is just filled with uncertainty. You have heard the expression “Life can change in a heart beat!” – and we all know that to be true. One moment – we are sailing…
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Why Understanding Sex is Important to Conception!
When I worked in the non profit fertility world – it took a lot of pushing to bring sexuality to the agenda. I love telling the story of being at some professional sexuality…
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Are You Considering Egg Donation? What Your Doctor May Not Be Telling You!
This week I got a crash course on donor agreements – and what I learned shocked me. If you are considering doing egg or embryo donation to build your family – or donating…
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Want Some Baby Making Mojo? Read This!
One of the most important lessons I have learned in over two decades as a Fertility Advocate is as much as we understand the science of conception – and baby making – we…
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What is a Fertility Coach?
I am sitting in a living room in Chicago – having brunch with a group of 30 something year old women. I was there to talk about sexuality (one stop on my fabulous…
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Zestra: A Big Bang In A Bottle!
Perhaps this blog should live on my “Being Shameless” site – because it is a pretty shameless post! But I decided to put it here – because it is about one of those…
Egg Donation Can Help You Reclaim Your Dreams
Pamela Madsen, The Fertility Advocate, and Founder of The American Fertility Association talking about how egg donation can help you heal the wounds of infertility, by helping you reclaim lost dreams.
Pamela’s Vlog! There Are So Many Ways to Give Birth!
There are so many ways to give birth! Hear my little introduction to one of my favorite Blogs You can read that right here!
Back To The Basics!
Today’s Vlog was inspired by fellow blogger, Lisa Rosenthal who did her own Back to The Basics Blog today! She reminded me that I haven’t talked about how long to wait before seeking…
Vagina Anxiety, Climate Change, and ProBiotics Oh My!
Welcome to my very fist “Vlog”! I don’t look very glamorous, but it’s early in the morning and I am trying to figure out the web-cam! I am talking about my newest blog…
