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Your Voices + Stories

The PCOS Journey Never Ends: It Goes On and On…
Welcome to the 2014 Voices of PCOS blog series at The Infertility Voice, in honor of PCOS Awareness Month! The PCOS … Read More »

Lessons in Healing
I am a stepmother and mother of a daughter who died of SIDS in 2003, and had an ectopic pregnancy in 2004. I have also … Read More »

This Year
December can feel like such a colossal failure when you're trying to start a family. You begin the year hoping that by … Read More »

Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
Guest Post by Candyce Pelfrey Kannengieser I had not always wanted children. I wasn’t born maternal. I did not like … Read More »

19 Summer Fertility Super Foods
By Heidi Brockmyre, M.S. L.Ac. Whatever efforts you’re making to get pregnant - whether it’s lifestyle changes, … Read More »

You Just Can’t Help But Laugh
By Melanie E.
Throughout our process of trying to conceive, I often watched people around me and wondered when I was next. When was it my … Read More »
From the Blog
Choose Your Own Adventure
If you want to try to have your own genetic child, turn to page 6.If you want to recruit a donor for donor eggs, turn to page 12.If you want to adopt a child, turn to page 30.---I've been mulling over how to write this entry since Friday's doctor's … Read More »
Results are in.
Our Dr called us from his home yesterday. Everything has come in as normal. Low end of normal (21 million), but normal enough. Motility was a bit low, but isn't a big deal if/when we go IVF since a lab will inject sperm directly into the egg. Our … Read More »
A Thing With Feathers
I sat in a chair at a table in the fertility clinic exam room thinking about how this would be a defining moment in my life. The resident doctor entered the room and began going over my test results. She very quickly told me my chances of conceiving … Read More »
Dr. Fertilitylove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Learned to Love My Family
I had an outing scheduled with my niece. she’s my niece by marriage and my goddaughter. My relationship with her isn’t as close as I would like; I’ve always imagined that this was because she didn’t come out of a sibling of mine, like my beloved, … Read More »

