RESOLVE: The National Infertility Association is in the midst of launching a new public awareness campaign: “People with Infertility Are Being Ignored.”

This campaign focuses on an age old problem that has haunted people with infertility since the beginning of time – it is a disease of shame and shaming.  And what I know about shame is that it creates silence. When you are in a place of shame – what you are saying “Please do not notice me”.

And if people suffering with infertility are not noticed – then we will not get the health care that we need. That is what ACT UP was all about. It was getting people who have hid in the shadows to come out and be seen – and a cure.  It is way past raising awareness – it is about taking away the problem.

So how do we create a Shameless community that is willing to not only educate and raise awareness but demand health care coverage and a cure? That is  truly the question.  We all know that shame breeds silence – and silence allows for inaction.

Barbara Collura, Executive Director of RESOLVE wants everyone to take a pledge to raise infertility awareness. Okay – that sounds good. I have been doing that for 20 years – and yet when I recently allowed one of my blogs to be reprinted on a website that has varied content called Carnalnation – my blog was FLAMED.  Now this website has EVERYTHING on it  – and the readers decide to shame infertility? That should tell you something about how so many people view infertility! Do you want to see shaming and ignorance at it’s best? Go check out the comments.  Are these the kind of comments that keeps  many in the closet? I didn’t respond to even one of them to try to raise awareness. I thought about it several times – but I just didn’t have the strength to wrestle with ignorance.

Let’s face it – it is risky for anyone to go out there – and talk about infertility. There are people who still feel that people who  are struggling with infertility are selfish, narcissistic wanna be breeders and that the government should not do anything to help them – as there are more important issues at hand. You know – like world peace.

And world peace is important. But I can’t help but remember what a Rabbi said once to me – what he said was that when you help one family – you are saving a world. Because for that family – it is their world.

So – how brave are you? Are you ready to take the pledge? Are you ready to save the world? One world? Start a blog.  Make noise on Facebook – Twitter with a #Infertility in your message.  Respond to the comments on CarnalNation.com!!!

And by the way  – if you just don’t have the strength – I get it.

Posted under Advocacy, Fertility, Fertility Blogs, Fertility Support, Infertility, RESOLVE, change

I haven’t done a round up in a long time – but there is a lot of amazing blogs, cool services, conferences and products that have happened recently – and I want to make sure that you don’t miss them! And I have to be honest – I get so much information in my Facebook News Stream – that I would miss half of what is going on if I wasn’t a member of that community! If you want to jack into my community – I welcome you to add me as a friend or follow me on Twitter @PamelaMadsen.

So here is a taste of what I think is worth noting this week! There are  two great new products in the world of menstruation.  One for young girls who are beginning their menses called “The Dot Girl – First Period Kit”. I have to say that I love this product – and their tag line “Informed Girls – Empowered Women”.  Right on. It’s not that girls need any special kind of kit really for their first period – but the product opens the door for mothers or other significant adults in the young girls world to initiate a conversation with them about getting their first period. I totally support that! Let’s work on making girls comfortable with their bodies right from the start!

For us older women – it’s important to keep track of your cycles. There are so many reasons why women should do that – and it’s not just to be able to tell your gynecologist when the date of your last period is! Don’t you hate that question when you have no clue? Here are some of the reasons that you might want to keep track of your cycles:

1. Its a great way to make friends with your body. Get to know the normal ebb and flow of your hormones – what is normal and what is not.

2. Identify issues early on. If your cycles are irregular that could be a symptom of a larger problem. Keeping track lets you know that.

3.  If you are trying to conceive (TTC) – knowing your cycles will help you in planning your pregnancies – and if you don’t conceive when you expect to conceive – having a record is great information for your doctor!

There are many more reasons why you should know your cycle history – and there is a great new product called  My Cycle Diary that looks really easy and convenient to use. So check it out! And while we are on the subject of menstrual health – Please check out a wonderful organization devoted to this very subject called Rachel’s Well. You will be glad that you did.

In the world women’s reproductive rights – a new “morning after drug” has been approved by the FDA called “Ella”. You can read all about it here.

And on an entirely different note – there are some fabulous blogs out there right now – I love today’s post at The Fertility Daily by Dr. Eli Rybak on Rabbinically Supervised A.R.T. The Orthodox Jewish community has special concerns when they enter the world of assisted reproduction. That is why A. T.I.M.E. was formed – a support group for orthodox couples doing through infertility.  If you are not familiar with A. TIME – check them out – and if you want to learn about “Kosher Fertility Treatment” jack into Dr. Rybak’s blog. I loved it.

Have you ever attended a reproductive health conference? My favorite conference for reproductive health professionals is coming up soon in Atlanta – and it is run by The Association of Reproductive Health Professionals (ARHP).  These folks do it all – fertility, sexuality and birth control.  You can check out the conference details here. I know that I am trying to make it this year!

I could keep going! There is so much going on in the world wide web of reproductive health – but I am going to stop here for now – except to invite you to visit my new website and blog – that focuses on healthy sexuality.  Being Shameless is the place to read my newest blog – learn about my upcoming memoir SHAMELESS. On my new site you can not only jack into the blog  – but you can read an exclusive excerpt from my book, learn about why I wrote it  – and become a part of my community there too! There is lots of Pamela to spread around.  So keep visiting here – every day – and book mark Being Shameless! I hope to see you over there too!

Posted under Advocacy, Body Image, Female Sexual Desire, Fertility, Fertility Advocate's Hot List, Fertility Blogs, Fertility Support, IVF, In Vitro Fertilization, Infertility, Jewish Infertility Support, Rachel's Well, Sex Education, Shameless, conception tips, menstruation, sexual health, sexuality

Time does march on. Elizabeth Carr , America’s first “Test Tube Baby” is all grown up and as reported in papers all over the place – has become a mother of a beautiful little boy.  Yes – she reports – she had her baby “the old fashioned way”. And she talks a lot about what life was like growing up under the micro scope of being a high profile high tech kid.

I first met Elizabeth Carr at a World Fertility Awareness Month  (WFAM) event that I ran as Executive Director and Founder of The American Fertility Association – back in the day. I had created WFAM to have a pink ribbon kind of event for everyone around the world to come together during the month of June to recognize infertility. We gave the logo out to anyone that wanted to use it to raise awareness  on a global scale of infertility, as well as a tool kit for running WFAM events.  It was very successful – and the United Nations offered to host one our celebrations in NYC.

We decided to focus the event around the kids of IVF – something that I was deeply committed to. We had a panel of kids who were “Test Tube” conceived,  talk about how they felt about being an IVF kid. We had Elizabeth Carr, two young ladies from Ireland and my two sons speak. It was a wonderful event.

Here were these kids – talking about how grateful they were for the science that gave them life. But it was also more than that – they spoke with compassion for their parents and the pain that they went through with infertility. These kids wanted other potential parents to know – that it could be alright. That they could be born – that it was possible – and as the saying goes “The Kids Are All Right!”

It was a wonderful day to remember. And when I came across the coverage that sweet, bright, vocal Elizabeth was now a mom – and still speaking out. I was really moved.  My sons, Tyler and Spencer also spoke all over the world about being an IVF kid. And now too – they are IVF men. Tyler has graduated college and has a big boy job. And Spencer will be going off to college in a month.

One day before I know it – I will be a grandmother. And that’s what it’s all about. IVF simply let us join in on this fabulous human experience of having a family.

Congratulations Elizabeth!

Posted under Advocacy, Biological Clock, Elizabeth Carr, Fertility, Fertility Education, Fertility Support, IVF, IVF Kids, In Vitro Fertilization, Infertility, The American Fertility Association, World Fertility Awareness Month, inspirational thoughts

I was reminded just the other day of the concept of “The Wounded Healer” by a fertility blogger named Keiko Zoll. Keiko writes a truly fabulous blog call “Hannah Wept, Sarah Laughed” – and she has been doing this wonderful blog series on being an advocate.  I was truly touched and reminded about my own wounded healer in reading her words in A Belly Full of Fire: The Wounded Healer. Keiko like so many advocates – started her blog out of a desire to express her experience – to fill some unnameable void – to shout into the universe all that was in her heart and in her belly – and in doing so – by speaking with a courageous honesty – she found a community and became a healer. Her words touched hearts and erased the pain of feeling alone  for others. Keiko writes from her gut and  it is that kind of writing – that kind of honesty that touches people.

You don’t need a medical degree to be a healer. You can be a healer by raising money to support a cause  – my colleague and friend Andrea Bryman Lmft is walking to raise money for breast cancer (make a donation here) and recently another colleague and friend Amy Demma was so touched by friend’s struggle with cancer that she has decided to make her facebook status and all manner of communication on Monday’s dedicated to fertility and cancer.  She asked her friends to support her just by talking about the issues (Pam waving at Amy in support). And my husband loves telling this story about a nun who came to our summer house looking for clams to help cure cancer and I just found this piece about her in an old People’s Magazine.  Oh yes – Sister Arline also had fire in her belly.

You see – once you get a fire in your belly – anything is possible.  It is often that place of disbelief, that place at the edge of pain where the most incredible creation and healing can happen.  It was so good to be reminded of that this week. Even this old dog advocate sometimes needs encouragement to keep on keeping on.  You see – its not always fun and games – this place of “Fire in The Belly”.  Sometimes – writing, doing, and change making from the place of the wounded healer can be very vulnerable work.  I remember going on the Joan Lunden Show – my first media appearance with my baby in my arms – to talk about IVF.  I wanted to show that IVF babies were normal and beautiful. I remember how my knees shook – and how scared I was. I was coming out on national television as a woman who had infertility – and had an IVF baby.   My husband and I were so worried that other parents would in some way classify our kid as an IVF  experiment. We were really scared – IVF was so new 20 years ago. But we had a fire in our belly. We needed to talk to get the word out about infertility and the possible solutions.  We needed to show the world that IVF kids were normal. And so I went.  That day was perhaps my first day  as a wounded healer.

Once  you start your first blog,  write your first article, walk your first walk, or do whatever it is that you need to do for your own healing -  you may  find  that you too have taken your first steps on the road of the wounded healer.  It is through that delicious fire in the belly place – that all changes happens. And don’t worry if you sometimes you feel scared and alone.  When you hit that place – just take a breath and know that you are building a bridge for others to walk across.

Thanks Keiko for the reminder.

Posted under Advocacy, Facebook, Fertility, Fertility Blogs, Fertility Support, IVF, In Vitro Fertilization, Infertility, Keiko Zoll, inspirational thoughts

Many of you know a lot about me. You know already that I became a patient advocate in the field of infertility because of my own experience with infertility. I have a history of making my life experiences into my life’s work.  And I have noticed when I am quiet enough to have moments of inner reflection – how so much of what I get into forces me to experience the same challenges over and over again. The challenges just occur in a different venue, with different props and costumes.

Giving up control has never been easy for me – and therefore – once again – it is an aspect of my life that I play with a lot .What is it about surrendering that is so hard that sometimes I feel like I need my fingers pried off a project? “Really, Pam, – No REALLY Pam – we have got it!!!”.  Now it really doesn’t matter where that little piece of dialog came from – you get the message. The very idea of giving up control make me feel like the girl in this picture! Very, very anxious! It was as though if I had control over every aspect of my life – I could keep anxiety at bay.  Eventually – I did learn that surrendering to people that I truly trusted – was truly the way to keep anxiety from taking over my life.
Maybe the Universe offered up infertility to me – because I needed to really learn on some base level – that we can only do so much – and then we have to let go.  Infertility is a great one for teaching surrender.  We can show up – read all the books on infertility that are out there – interview and find the best doctors – hang out on message boards and infertility community websites trying to get the facts. We can show up at the doctor’s office with pad and pencil in hand – follow all of the protocol perfectly – and in the end – we are not in control of the outcome.  No matter what we do – there is always the two week wait! We have to give it up – and simply not know and not be in control. God I hated that.

And no matter what I did – the outcome was the outcome.  There is a special lesson in that – don’t you think? It is really about how we learn to cope with the unknown – and those things that we cannot control where we will find sanity.

I have found that the lessons that I learned during my own personal infertility struggle has helped me even so many years later. All of those feeling that I never wanted to feel – come back as I said – just on another stage.

Whether it was moving on from my organization, The American Fertility Association,  to deciding to write my book: SHAMELESS - there was only so much preparation for the experience that was possible. In the end – I had to simply give it up! After all the hard work, set intention, long hours, prayer and burning the mid night oil – I was really not in control of anything.

In medical treatment – it was my doctors and then good fortune who took my best efforts and then told me to trust them – and let them do their part of the heavy lifting! And I did. I let go – and simply had to let them carry my weight.  I had to truly learn trust.  And now so many years later – it is my publisher at Rodale – my editor and my publicity team that are taking all of my best efforts and making the final calls over “my baby”.   They are the ones in charge of editing my work, deciding what stays and what goes – and making such personal decisions about what picture of me is even going to be on the book.  I find my fingers wanting to curl around the manuscript – and my voice wanting to sneak out of my throat as I want to shout “Mine! Mine! Do it MY way!!!” But I learned a lot during those years of trusting my medical team – and I am trying to once again surrender control.  And boy oh boy – it isn’t easy to trust when you feel like your whole world is at stake.

But that is the challenge – and it doesn’t change.  So do your home work. Choose your doctors carefully. Make sure that you are in a place that you on a core level can trust. Once you feel that trust you know that you are home. Then my recommendation? Pry your fingers off o fthe  journey…..I am not saying that you don’t get to show up – and do your best. I am not saying that. But I am saying that once you pick your place – whether it is a fertility doctor – an editor, or a dentist -we all have to get to the place of being able to open our mouths, say “AHHH” and just trust. Without it- we will simply get in the way of our own success. The key is finding where you can truly trust and feel safe.

And I guess – I will be in the black jacket on the cover of my book – I really thought red was best.

Posted under A Purpose Driven Life, Fertility, Fertility Journey, Fertility Message Boards, Fertility Support, Opening to your Life's Purpose, Shameless, infertiity

I am writing from an airplane. My husband and I have left our two sons behind sleeping in their beds. They are young men now 17 and 21 years respectively. And yet – I don’t think that we have ever left them for longer than an over night to go on a trip – just my husband and myself. We have traveled a great deal through out marriage – both alone and together as a family.

But this is new for us – taking a real vacation for longer than two days without the kids.  This time the focus is on us – not Disney – or a professional conference – or whether or not the kids would see the Grand Canyon or not. The focus on this trip is us – our marriage – our friendship – and who we have become to each other.

The kids have money, a loaded up refrigerator, and take out menus. If they remember to feed the cat – things should go smoothly. And my mother and sister live just blocks away. I am really not worried about them. In fact having my thoughts turn back to the kids is really a distraction. A distraction from what is comfortable to what is less comfortable – taking a look at who we have become – and where we are going together.

We are about to be going into the empty nest part of our lives. Okay – we might not exactly be there yet – even after a college graduation – it looks like these kids will be around a little while. But they are not dependent on us anymore. Kai and I have a lot more freedom. Even now. They go here or there – stopping home just to gather clean clothes – and money. Even their computers are portable – and seem to go with them on their backs.

And so – Kai and I are finding ourselves alone together again – after what feels like a life time of creating children and raising children. There seems like a newness to our two-ness. After almost 28 years of marriage – we are entering this whole new period of our lives together. I hope that we do better than Al Gore and Tipper – and we don’t know their back story – but being married for 20, 30 or 40 years is quite the accomplishment.  Even if it doesn’t end in “until death do us part”.

I saw this book cover – I know nothing about this book – but I dug the cover. Right now I am willing to say prayers for us figuring out this thing called marriage. How the world says it is suppose to work – and how most of us are trying to figure it out – to actually make it work. Most of us are making up our own rules – or a the very least trying to figure out how the rules work for us in our lives right now.  I am nervous about this trip. Kai and I are going to a couples retreat. We are going to be nose to nose and toes to toes with other marrieds from around the country. We will all be in different stages of relationship – and I am sure of all different ages.  Some will have kids and others may not. But we will all be there to take a look at this social covenant called marriage. I am looking forward to not being Mom. Sister, Daughter or advocate, employee or author. I am looking forward to seeing what happens when Kai and I peel away of these layers of roles that we have surrounded ourselves with over these past quarter of a century – and take a peek of the jewels that might just be there waiting for us in this next part of our adventure together.

Posted under Fertility, Fertility Support, Uncategorized, marriage

I have been speaking to women who are struggling with infertility for what feels like a life time. From my time as the President and then Executive Director of RESOLVE NYC to my time as the founder and first Executive Director of The American Fertility Association.

Now, I am hearing again from woman through this blog. The stories are all different and they are all the same. It is the regret that always gets me – that rips my heart. The level of self punishment that many of the women are putting themselves through because they blame themselves, even while they tell me that nobody ever offered them education about their fertility. And the pain that vibrates through the phone or an email is palpable. Often the woman makes apologies for the life that she had lived. There might have been an abortion. There was waiting too long to start trying once she was married….If only she had been better…if only she had been “a good girl”.

What I want to say here – is that the system has failed so many women. They have not failed themselves. Where were they supposed to get this information? From the air? When I was in school – I was taught about sex, STDs’ and birth control. That was it. Sex Education was about pregnancy prevention. That was it. Woman need to be given all the facts about reproduction starting from a young age. We need the complete story and that does include safer safe, information about STD’s, birth control and information about our reproductive potential as women.

These days – I spend about as much time directly with gynecologists as I do patients.  I drop in – and chat with them about fertility – and also the importance of talking to women about the getting a fertility evaluation.

Recently, I met with a young female GYN – and in the beginning the gynecologists agreed with us that the woman that they see have no idea of their biological clock – and they understood why giving them this information is important. And then, as it sometimes happens – this lovely female gynecologist got nervous about getting her patients nervous about their biological clocks. I told her that I really get nervous going for my mammograms and my pap smears – but that I go – because the information obtained from those tests can change my life.

I talked to her about the importance of women getting this information so that they could plan their own reproductive lives and perhaps stay out of reproductive endocrinologist’s offices. It is all about the possibilities that women now have – that if they learn that they are in a borderline place when it comes to their fertility – and they are not ready to start their families that they can freeze their eggs.

By the time that I left that office – I knew that I had created change. I had brought this office more than bagels and coffee – I had brought them information and a point of view that this office had not heard before – and it was a big office. By making these house calls of GYN’s, perhaps I  had changed the course of the reproductive lives of some women. I know that this sounds dramatic – but it is dramatic. This one practice with several gynecologists literally sees hundreds of women. By enrolling these doctors into our quest for better education for women around their fertility. I feel like we are building an army of educators one office at a time. We even talked about ways to introduce this information. And before the coffee and bagels were finished – they got it.

When I got home there was a letter from a woman waiting for me. She was full of regret. She was sure that how she had lived her life was the reason for her struggles to conceive. I wrote to her and I told her about all of the possibilities that still awaited her…for there were still many possibilities…the world still had much to offer up. That this was not about some notion that she had not lived a good life. That the infertility that she was now struggling with was not some kind of punishment. Why do we always go there? Why do we as women always blame ourselves? I wish that she had gotten information earlier – but that was my only regret for her – but that was it. And then I sent her this poem by Mary Oliver – perhaps this poem will touch you too…perhaps it is for all of us…no matter where you are in your life….

Wild Geese
by Mary Oliver

You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting –
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things

Posted under Egg Banking, Egg Freezing, Fertility, Fertility Education, Fertility Preservation, Fertility Support, eggs

It seems that the economic crunch is starting to hit patients from around the world.  Just the other day – I received this notice from ESHRE:

“The Danish government until now provided reimbursement for assisted reproduction treatments (ART) with up to three treatment trials for married and unmarried couples, singles and homosexuals.

In light of the need to prioritise public expenditure, the Parties agreed this month to implement a legislative amendment, so that Assisted Reproduction Treatment (ART) will no longer be part of the free public health services.

‘This is sad news considering Denmark has always been praised as the benchmark in Europe in terms of access and availability of treatment for patients seeking ART’ said Dr. Søren Ziebe from the University Hospital in Copenhagen, Executive Committee Member of ESHRE and the SIG coordinator of all SIGs at ESHRE.

The Danish government has allocated a pool of a mere 50 million Danish Krone (approximately 6.7 million Euros) for groups with special needs only. The cuts in this area will decrease government spending by 200 million Danish Krone (EUR 26.9 million) annually in 2011, 2012, 2013 and thereafter.

In 2007, 4.9% of all children born in Denmark were babies conceived with the help of ART, according to the ESHRE European IVF Monitoring Group (EIM). With 2,558 cycles per million inhabitants annually, Denmark has the highest availability of ART in Europe. ‘Every school class in Denmark has two IVF children on average’ said Dr. Ziebe. ‘These changes will have major implications and detrimental effect for childless couples, for fertility clinics and the research environment in Denmark.’

I have always looked outside of our borders – to other countries who seemed so progressive in supplying fertility care to their citizens. If they could do it – why couldn’t we? The fall of Denmark -in supplying fertility care to their citizens is especially troublesome.”

In this moment, I am remembering the GYN that I recently wrote about who said to me that it was wrong for reproductive endocrinologists to talk about money. In this world – in this time in our troubled economic environment – how could a doctor not talk about money and financing treatment? To me – ignoring how a patient is going to access care is as wrong as ignoring a fever.

Posted under "Cross Border Fertility Treatment", Fertility, Fertility Support, IVF, In Vitro Fertilization, Infertility

I love doing these round ups! Letting you in  on what is exciting, new and thought provoking in the world of fertility.   Yesterday I was contacted by Kaite McGrew – a Spiritual Coach, Author, Speaker and creator of “Six Sacred Shifts to Embrace Your Fertility” which is a free audio coaching program that is available to women seeking to become pregnant – this program works with the mind-body connection and goes beautifully with any other fertility treatment/program – the goal of the six-week coaching program is to support women in re-framing their experience of trying to become pregnant, and to relieve them from stress, and to allow them to contextualize the goal of becoming pregnant within the larger framework of their lives. It is a non-denominational spiritual program that works with women of any faith, or women who are not particularly spiritual, but would like to bring a spiritual context into their quest for pregnancy.

The program is delivered via weekly emails that contain links to audio segments, written exercises, etc. and it is completely without charge of any kind. The program available on a donation only basis, but there is no donation required, and anyone who wants to enjoy the program is welcome to do so.

I am also learning about Circle+Bloom – which is a mind/body program to help support people who are going through infertility. The Circle+Bloom program is getting a lot of buzz  – and has already been put into place in various centers around the United States.  The basics of the program is listening for 15 minutes a day – to audio tapes that will relax and support you during any stage of your fertility journey.  It’s all about stress reduction and putting your health back into your hands. So jack into the Circle+Bloom Website and learn more on your own. It is rich, and full of information as well as giving you the opportunity sample the program.

While I am at it – I am going to circle around – and give two more shout out to products that I have already mentioned on The Fertility Advocate - The IVF Companion – which is also a way of taking your health back into your own hands – and being an empowered patient.  So if you haven’t heard about the The IVF Companion (you can read my review here)- take a minute and check out the website.  I also want to give another shout out to YES Baby - (which I reviewed here). Since that review – just like the IVF Companion -  I am hearing lovely things about this conception friendly product  from my readers.  Yes Baby – says Yes to great sex -organically -  while helping you to conceive.  And you know how much I love great sex and conception!

I just have to give a shout out to Elizabeth Cohen at CNN – who just did a great piece on getting pregnant later in life called “Pregnant at 47: Can I Do That?” in her fabulous column “The Empowered Patient” on CNN/Health. Several prominent members of our community gave fabulous quotes including Dr. David Kreiner at East Coast Fertility and Dr. Jamie Grifo at NYU.   And Kudos to  RESOLVE:The National Infertility Association for their great new website – if you don’t know RESOLVE yet – and you are TTC – jack in!

There is so much going on in the world of fertility and sexuality – if you want to know more – please “Friend” me on Facebook – or follow me on Twitter @PamelaMadsen. I would love keeping in touch with you there too.

Have a great hot Memorial Day Weekend everyone! And I will see you all back here on Tuesday!

All best -

Pamela

Posted under "IVF Companion", "YES BABY", Advocacy, Circle, Circle + Bloom, Dave Kreiner, Donor Egg, Dr. Dave Kreiner, East Coast Fertility, Egg Donation, Elizabeth Cohen, Fertility, Fertility Advocate's Hot List, Fertility Coach, Fertility Consultants, Fertility Support, IVF, Infertility, Infertility Consultants, MD, PCOS, conception tips, holistic fertility program

So – what are you doing today? Wanna come chat with me?  I am going to be a speaker at the upcoming Fertility Focus Telesummit 2010 which, I am told – is a ground-breaking ‘virtual event’, bringing together 12 fertility experts from around the world to speak on many different aspects of infertility. And today is my day!

I will be speaking on one of my most favorite subjects:

The Fertility Evaluation: Why Every Women Needs To Have One

• What is a fertility evaluation?
• When does fertility decline?
• What can we do to protect our fertility?
• What can we do to extend our fertility?

Attendees will be able to listen to every presentation live and for 24 hours after without charge, and have the option to upgrade and purchase the MP3 audio files of the 15 interviews, along with a huge range of fertility ebooks, articles, audios and more provided by the fertility experts.

To register for The Fertility Focus Telesummit all you need to do is visit www.fertilityfocustelesummit.com and sign up with just a name and email address.  Attendees will then be able to listen in either online or on the phone to the presentations as they happen.  The majority of the telesummit will be live, and attendees will have the unique opportunity to ask the experts questions about their own fertility issues via web form, before and during the presentations.

The full schedule of speakers, along with the subject of their presentations and biographies, can be found at www.fertilityfocustelesummit.com.

This event is believed to be the first of its kind – never before has such a range of fertility experts come together to provide information-rich presentations accessible to people all over the world via the power of the internet.  The attendees of this event will not incur travels costs or time, and can listen live to all the presentations free of charge.  If they choose to listen online they will save on phone costs too!

The Fertility Focus Telesummit 2010 is hosted by Sarah Holland, an EFT practitioner with a special interest in fertility issues.  Any queries about the telesummit or the affiliate program should be sent directly to Sarah at mail@fertilityfocustelesummit.com

I am looking forward to “seeing” you all there!

Posted under Fertility, Fertility Education, Fertility Support, fertility evaluations