A Mantra For Fertility? Merriam-Webster defines the word mantra as : a sound, word, or phrase that is repeated by someone who is praying or meditating : a word or phrase that is repeated often or that expresses someone’s basic beliefs When it comes to living with infertility, more often than not, the words or …
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Infertility Message Boards: Proceed With Caution I am sure that this missive here is going to set a few wigs off kilter, but my desire to keep things real, requires me to say my peace. In the early days of my journey, when I lived in fear and filled my head with anecdotes, not facts, …
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Go Ahead, Admit It Aaaah, pregnancy and birth announcements–the bane of anyone living with infertility’s existence. While we suffer silently and try to conceal our pain with a brave face, others are shouting from the rooftops about their baby joy. When your nursery is agonizingly vacant and you’ve suffered yet another kick to the shin …
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Who’s Scared Of A Little Old Finish Line? When we start out on the fertility journey, so many of us have take it for granted that come hell or high water, we are not stopping until we have a baby in our arms. We resolve to make our stubborn sperm, overworked ovaries, and underperforming uteri …
You Must Have a Game Plan For The First Meeting with Your Fertility Doctor I can hear it already, “Are you serious? What do I have to prepare for? Isn’t the doctor supposed to do all the talkin’?” What separates couples who are successful in defining their fertility journey from those who just float along …
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Motherhood…Nah, I’ll Take Paris Instead? No one who knows me would ever accuse me of being outwardly maternal. While other little girls liked to play house and swaddle baby dolls, I was swept away by day dreams of traveling to far away places and doing “big” things. This desire intensified when my Mom bought me …
For those of us fluent in the language of infertility, there are few words, so innocuously strung together, that are more likely to elicit a punch in the face as a response. It would be so much easier if the answer was a simple “yes,” or no. Our “maybes,” or “we hope sos,” are answers …
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At the beginning of my fertility journey, I was obsessed with peeing on predictor sticks. I agonized over the number of quality eggs I had left. I fiendishly scrutinized every flutter, ache, and pain as if it was some mythical sign of pregnancy. These of course seemed like the charming, Type A concerns of any …
