“It was the anticipation of the questions at the event and the not knowing when or if it would happen caused me great anxiety.” Kristen Dealing with a diagnosis of infertility and then trying to survive in a fertile world is daunting. When I was dealing with my diagnosis I had extreme social anxiety. The […]
Navigating the Costs to Conception: 3 Tips for Lesbians on the Fertility Journey
Guest post by Kelly Fenton. You can contact Kelly at CoachingwithKelly@yahoo.com The fertility journey can be one wild ride. It can feel like you are on a never-ending adventure and you have no idea when you’ll reach your destination (pregnancy). The more you can anticipate the better. When my wife Nicole and I started our fertility journey […]
SPERM!!! 3 Things Every Guy Need should to know about his Sperm & Male Fertility
April 24-30, 2016 is National Infertility Awareness Week, #NIAW and it’s the perfect time to talk about SPERM. Sara Naab of Trak Fertility and my co-host for the Making Dads Summit for the past three years, has a mission and it’s all about sperm! On her site http://trakfertility.com the first impression of Trak is their […]
Guest Blog Posting: Niki & her IVF World
Hi my name is Niki. I have been in the IVF world since May 2012 and wandering through this journey of IVF with my husband and the friends I told along the way. Once you enter this journey you start to feel alone, even if you tell other people. No one understands it unless you […]
Think Fertility. Believe.
Guest Post by Heather Zeni. My husband and I tried to conceive for six and a half years. That’s six and a half years of living in, what I call, “The Tornado”. The anticipation, the calm — then the storm. On repeat..over and over. We were told multiple times that it was literally impossible to […]
The Negative Thought Train
Day Six of National Infertility Awareness Week: Seven Days to an Easier Way In my April newsletter I mentioned April Fool’s Day and asked if you had been fooling around. I wanted to know if you had experienced a feeling of light spiritedness, joy or just plain goofiness. I also shared this link to the Mayo […]
Do You Know Your Courageous Soul?
“Courage must have its everyday face. We can’t preserve it just for special occasions. We must have courage when we are disappointed, because disappointment is a robber of reason and faith and even dignity. We must remember that whatever we have to meet there is something within us to help us meet it. But it is like a vein of […]
Special Father’s Day Post
Happy Father-To-Be Day! by Marc Sedaka (Author of “What He Can Expect When She’s Not Expecting”) As June 17 approaches, infertile couples the world over are coming to grips with a very sad but true realization. Father’s Day sucks. Does it suck as much as Mother’s Day? Not even close. But that doesn’t change the […]
