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Infertility Apps: Techie Stuff to Consider Using On Your Journey
By William D Petok, PhD, The American Fertility Association Mental Health Advisory Council
Infertility presents a set of challenges that most of us aren’t anticipating. So it stands to reason, any help you can get with navigating the …
The Delicate Balance of Infertility Treatment and Work
by Iris Waichler, M.S.W., L.C.S.W.
One of the toughest challenges women experiencing infertility have to face is how to manage treatment and not let it impact upon their work lives. Infertility treatment is …
Infertility Summers……a Time to Think, Feel, Refuel and Plan
By Elaine R. Gordon, Ph.D.
Summer is kickback time for many…it is a time to slow down, reflect, and relax. However, if you are a fertility patient struggling to build a family, taking time off from treatment may be unthinkable. …
Shifting Fertility in Shift Work
by S. Fenella Das Gupta, Ph.D., Neuroscience
Shift workers, what would we do without them? All the doctors, nurses, firefighters, ambulance staff, restaurant employees- the list is endless and their work needed. But shift workers have to deal …
Yours or Mine?
By Melissa B. Brisman, Esq. and Nancy M. Hartzband, Esq.
Couples may want to think about their cyropreserved (frozen) embryos, to be sure that they are on “the same page” and that their intentions for future use and …
An Infertile Blonde
By Becky Fawcett
I’m infertile. Seriously infertile. Infertile to the tune of 5 rounds of IVF in my early 30s, 3 pregnancies, and 3 miscarriages. One at 16 weeks, one at 12 weeks and one at 10 weeks. Infertile to …
Listening by Choice
By Kathy Balmer
I am well past the age of hoping to get pregnant. In fact, if that actually happened at this point I would probably go off the deep end into insanity. However, I’m still somewhat scarred by my experiences of infertility …
Egg Freezing-Would I have Done It in My College Years? – Part I
Freezing your eggs. No such thing when I was in my college years and I wonder how my life would’ve been different if this procedure was around back then. I know for some, the pressure of finding “Mr.Right” would have diminished …
A Second-Class Citizen Muses About His Null and Void Marriage and a History-Making Day
The texts started flowing about a minute after the first Supreme Court decision regarding the so-called Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) was announced, and they picked back up when Proposition 8 fell as well.
Interestingly, my straight friends …