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

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Are You Stressing About Infertility?

I find the entire conversation about the links between stress and conceiving a baby – frankly very stressful. And the advice changes like the weather in San Francisco: if you don’t like it…

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Keiko Zoll is Pregnant: Happiness, Jealousy and Survivor’s Guilt In The Infertility Community

When I first heard that Keiko Zoll known as The Infertility Voice was pregnant I shouted a great big “YES”!!!  from my chair! You can learn about all of the best and worst…

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Another Infertility Scandal: The Story of The Lost Frozen Embryos

I have to say that the it is really getting emotionally exhausting wading through the amount of scandals that have affected patient care and trust in the world of reproductive medicine these days….

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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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