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Talking, writing, educating, and change making in the field of fertility for more than twenty years

Pam Madsen
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Why You Should Keep a Fertility Journal

Infertility treatment can make you feel like you’re Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz and your house just fell on a witch in a foreign land. From the moment of your first visit…

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The Latest and Greatest Infertility Treatment Break Through

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…

LGBTQ parenting

LGBTQ and Wanting a Family

Studies have clearly demonstrated that children of same-sex parents are as well adjusted and happy as children of heterosexual parents. Same-sex parents have the ability and freedom to create parenting roles that are…

Couple Stressing About Infertility

What is Infertility?

What is Infertility? • Infertility is a disease that results in the abnormal function of the reproductive system. • Infertility prevents people from creating a family – one of the most fundamental and…

Male Infertility

Let’s Hear it For The Men!

We like to think of ourselves as enlightened, capable of intelligent discussion and rational thinking. Few things will put those admirable qualities to the test as male infertility. Mention male factor at a…

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Infertility: Separating The Fact From The Fiction

Few diseases have as strange and unhappy a legacy of myths as infertility. In every culture around the world those of us coping with reproductive difficulties have to stare down the barrel of…

National Fertility Awareness Week

National Infertility Awareness Week: State of The ART

It’s impossible, the doctor said. You’ve got Kleinfelter’s Syndrome and you don’t have sperm. You’re too old and so are your eggs. I’m sorry , we don’t know why but you’ll never get…

IVF and Cancer

IVF and Cancer?

On February 18th, Reuters reported a new study that is a relief to many patients struggling with infertility, and considering doing IVF.  It is the concern that doing IVF could someday increase their…

Is this your year to have a baby?

Fertility Lifestyle Tip Sheet

So it’s your year to have a baby! Congratulations! How do you get started on getting your body ready for making a baby? Start with eating healthy foods, getting plenty of rest, and…

Infertility in Women of Color

Infertility in Black Women

Minority Couples’ Infertility Issues As a fertility advocate, I get a lot of press releases. And sometimes, I really love them. Especially when they actually have more to tell me than why I…

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