ART and Postpartum Depression
Posted on February 29, 2008 - Filed Under Infertility | 4 Comments
One day you find out that you or your husband is infertile. You process the information and search for information about why or how to treat your infertile medical condition. Test, after test, leads you to pursue Assisted Reproductive Technologies, such as IUI or IVF. Whether successful the first or third time you are excited [...]
Read More..>>Are You Competitive or Compassionate?
Posted on February 28, 2008 - Filed Under Personal Growth | Leave a Comment
Recently, I met a women who focuses her business on educating people, mainly women, how to stop using competition in their daily lives. For example, she mentioned her parent’s would compare her grades to her sister and vice versa — mainly for the sake of pushing the “lower performing” sister to try harder the next [...]
Read More..>>Attachment Disorder
Posted on February 25, 2008 - Filed Under Children | Leave a Comment
Often times I tell people my daughters have ‘Mommy Attachment Disorder.’ The other day my husband and I were asked how often we get away for “couple time.” Dave looked at me with ‘the look’ he often gives me when people ask questions like this. Okay, so mommy has ‘Kaley and Ashley Attachment Disorder.’ When [...]
Read More..>>RESOLVE Advocacy, Feb 28th
Posted on February 25, 2008 - Filed Under Infertility | 1 Comment
Reprinted from a RESOLVE email – Midwest Region needs help getting legislation passed in Minnesota. This benefits all women and couples dealing with infertility no matter which state you live in. Dear Friends of Resolve, We are in the process of bringing a bill to the Legislature that would provide infertility insurance (including IVF) for [...]
Read More..>>Infertility In the News
Posted on February 20, 2008 - Filed Under Infertility | 1 Comment
Most of my friends could not relate when my husband and I were diagnosed “infertile.” They had children and thought it was sad my husband and I could not create a child naturally. They had NO idea how infertility ruled my life and changed me and my relationships. There are many articles I’ve read that [...]
Read More..>>Would You Donate Money For Someone Else to Have a Baby????
Posted on February 19, 2008 - Filed Under Infertility | 3 Comments
Yesterday a friend of mine sent me an email about a couple trying to raise funds for their upcoming infertility treatments. The couple already have children of their own, all conceived naturally. They want to add one more child to their family; however, the woman cannot conceive or carry a baby. They are seeking an [...]
Read More..>>The Infertility & IVF Crisis
Posted on February 18, 2008 - Filed Under Infertility | Leave a Comment
It seems the news in Europe discusses the topic of infertility, and IVF, more frequently than our news sources in the USA. Two articles talk about the long-term consequences of IVF specifically. Article one talks about the infertility Time Bomb. According to this article, the rate of infertility is going to increase from 1 in [...]
Read More..>>Marriage and Infertility
Posted on February 14, 2008 - Filed Under Infertility | Leave a Comment
In a discussion with other women about their marriage during their infertility journey, 4 out of 5 of us said that infertility cause a strain on the marriage. Two of us said that we would have left our spouses if they had not agreed to either adoption or infertility treatments. I was one of those [...]
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