I’m a former Girl Scout, so I like to come prepared. Here’s what I brought in my bag for yesterday’s egg retrieval (ER). This was ER #4, so I’m becoming somewhat experienced with all this, and there wasn’t anything I lacked on my trip to the surgical center. Of course, there were a couple of […]
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A Story of Faith, Survival, Loss and of Hope for the Future
Every married couple once they hear the news that they are expecting their first child is overcome with joy: “Wow we are going to become parents!”. For my wife and I, it took four long years to achieve this goal. In 2009 our first pregnancy was miscarried at 13 weeks and we were told the […]
Grieving the Loss of a Pregnancy
Miscarriage. I’ve heard this word many times in my life. Always feeling that it was far from me, removed from my life, something I would never experience. Sort of how I felt about infertility years before I knew the pain myself. My friends have had miscarriages, I’ve read many stories about miscarriages, even listened […]
Curses into Blessings
An interview with author & fertility educator Julia Indichova MP: The subtitle of your second book, The Fertile Female is “How the power of longing for a child can save your life and change the world.” What do you mean by this? JI: Eighteen years ago, when I was first told that my soaring […]
My Mother’s Day Egg Retrieval
Once upon a time, I thought I would surely be a mother by now. Years ago when we started trying to build a family, I anticipated that it would happen sooner rather than later. Just one year ago, when I was preparing to embark on my first IVF treatment, I hoped that I would either […]
Celebrating Mother’s Day on the Infertility Journey
Celebrating Mother’s Day When You Are Not a Mother (Yet) Mother’s Day and Father’s Day are very difficult days on the calendar when going through infertility. How do you celebrate mothers when you yourself are grieving because you have not yet become a mother? How do you celebrate others, when you have had miscarriages […]
