National Infertility Awareness Week
Posted on April 18, 2011
National Infertility Awareness Week is April 24th – 30th. RESOLVE: The National Infertility Association has a lot of live and online activities scheduled. To find an event in your area visit NIAW Calendar of Events. There are events scheduled from CA to NY.
Looking for ideas on how to participate in NIAW if there are no live events in your area? Visit the NIAW Challenge page for easy ideas on how to help spread the message about infertility awareness.
For general information about NIAW visit RESOLVE’s NIAW webpage.
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Tuckaroo – Revolutionary NEW Baby Bib
Posted on April 8, 2011
This revolutionary new invention, created by a mother, is going to sweep the baby industry. It is
a homegrown idea that solves the problem every mother in America faces…..stained collars.
The Tuckaroo is a bib that provides advanced collar protection from stain and wetness leaving clothes clean and dry. Today’s bibs, which feature a classic but flawed design, have failed to provide collar protection. This simple, but clever patented design will now save all mothers across America time and money.
Here is how Baby Delicious reinvented the baby bib.
Founder, Kerry Mazzacano, often gives her Italian Man scenario to explain this product. She starts by saying, “Imagine an Italian man in a restaurant who takes his napkin and tucks it into his collar; take that concept and apply it to a bib. It’s a bib with an extra piece of material that gets tucked inside baby’s shirt completely encasing the collar and protecting it from stains and wetness. I wanted to call it Bada Bibz, but felt Tuckaroo had a bit more mass-market appeal.”
The Tuckaroo is now available at these select buybuyBaby stores. If you live outside of the below areas simply contact any one of these stores and they will arrange to have your Tuckaroo delivered to a buybuyBaby store near you. (www.tuckaroobibs.com coming soon!)
Follow the Tuckaroobibs on Facebook click Boo the Kangaroo to Like the page.
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NPR Story on IVF and Twins
Posted on April 3, 2011
Resolve was interviewed for a story that aired on NPR regarding IVF and twins. There have been significant improvements in the medical technologies for IVF. Many doctors recommend that their patients use a single embryo transfer, but since most couples have to pay for fertility treatments with their own funds they are willing to take risks in order to get pregnant.
The NPR stories discuss the real stories of the risk of twins.
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New Infertility Book – Blowing Out the Candle
Posted on March 23, 2011
There are two new books written with the male perspective in mind. It is great to see men taking their journey through infertility as seriously as their female counterparts. Sometimes the general public makes the assumption that it is only the woman who is struggling emotionally, but her husband often times is as disappointed and distraught as their wives.
The book Blowing Out the Candle is about one couples struggle to have a child not knowing the husband had a genetic disorder that was the root cause of their problems. They spent 8 years trying to conceive and sought out medical assistance in their journey.
To learn more about Blowing Out the Candle or to buy the book visit Amazon.
Another book from a male perspective is: What He Can Expect When She’s Not Expecting: How to Support Your Wife, Save Your Marriage, and Conquer Infertility! by Marc Sedaka. This book was featured on the Today Show. This book seems to be full of humor, but also provides great tips for the husband to help his wife through their infertility struggle.
To learn more about this book or to buy it visit Amazon.
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New Infertility Book – When You’re Not Expecting
Posted on March 18, 2011
It seems infertility books are making a resurgence. Just in the past 2 weeks I have received notice of 3 new books that might be of interest to couples in their infertility journey.
When You’re Not Expecting: An Infertility Survival Guide by Connie Shapiro, MSW, Ph.D.
According to Dr. Shapiro, the features of this book that make it unique and compelling are:
- The focus of the book is on the emotional impact of infertility. This book speaks to the universal issues of loss and coping that stretch across decades.
- In addition to having a focus on the emotional needs of married women and their partners, her book is the first to address the unique issues of lesbians and single women who are trying to conceive.
- The chapters of the book follow the sequence of the infertility experience (which may include pregnancy losses) from diagnosis to parenthood choices, enabling the reader to concentrate on coping with current challenges as well as anticipating future issues.
- The book provides personal testimonies of over 200 women who have survived infertility with creativity, stamina, determination and humor. Readers will resonate with the issues in each chapter and will discover a wealth of coping strategies from which to choose.
- At the end of every chapter, there are therapeutic tips for readers to consider. This is the first book to combine the voices of infertile women with that of their therapist to create a sisterhood of credibility and compassion.
- Ultimately women with infertility who read this book will feel empowered because they will feel less alone, more aware of the complexity of emotions during their infertility journey, more able to ask for emotional support, more prepared to be assertive with health care providers, and more aware of options to explore in their quest for parenthood.
Dr. Shapiro has written When You re Not Expecting to reach not only women coping with infertility and pregnancy loss, but also the people in their lives who love them and want to provide support, but who don’t understand the emotional impact of infertility: partners, parents, in-laws, siblings, friends, counselors, clergy and health care professionals.
Dr. Shapiro also writes a blog for people with infertility and their loved ones at Connie Shapiro. This blog is also posted on the Psychology Today website: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/when-youre-not-expecting where it is frequently selected as an Essential Read.
To buy a copy of this book visit Amazon, Wiley & Sons, Barnes and Noble or Borders.
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Love Beats Hate
Posted on February 10, 2011
A few years ago I had a challenging relationship with my in-laws. It was tense and uncomfortable being around them. My husband and I would fight about his family when a visit was approaching. I was miserable and my marriage was suffering.
At the time I was in counseling, mainly to help recover from our infertility and the premature birth of our twins. My counselor had a saying, “Fake it until you make it.” I used to laugh whenever she gave me this advice, which was often. It seemed impossible to fake it and highly unlikely that I was ever going to “make it.” But I did.
The decision (and choice) to make an effort get along with my in-laws made a huge difference in my marriage. When I quit arguing with him about his parents we didn’t have much else to fight about. We started getting along better and having fun once again. It helped him in his relationship with his parents too.
An important point to remember about loving someone or hating them is that it is a choice. We choose every day whether or not we will make an effort to love. It is a lot less work to love someone than it is to hate them. Consider that when we hate someone we actually hurt ourselves too with the negativity that consumes us. When we love others – or at least respect and have tolerance – our heart is full of positive emotion, which is much easier and healthier.
Today, we are all taking a moment to focus on how love is much more powerful and effective than hate. Choose your words wisely and respectfully. Our beliefs and ideology may differ, but we can always agree to disagree politely.
To participate in the next Love Beats Hate event, learn more at the Love Beats Hate Facebook page
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Love beats Hate
Posted on February 2, 2011
On February 10th the online community will be participating in Love Beats Hate, second scheduled event. It is a great idea to encourage everyone to use nice words when communicating with each other or about each other. A few online gals started the Love Beats Hate blog event to encourage everyone to be polite online. To learn more about the history and the upcoming Feb. 10th blogging event visit: Chronic Healing.
You can Like the Love Beats Hate Facebook page at: http://www.facebook.com/lovebeatshate. You can post a link to your blog on the Facebook page. Enjoy a day dedicated to politeness.
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Advocacy for Fertility
Posted on January 31, 2011
A replay of the Surrogacy Lawyer show on the Arizona advocacy efforts can be heard here: The Surrogacy Lawyer Radio Show: Your Guide to IVF and Third Party Family Building.
On the show we discussed the unfriendly legislation that was proposed in 2010 and what awaits the fertility community in 2011. There are a lot of groups who do not believe fertility treatments are a good thing AND they are going to work hard in 2011 to draft legislation that will prevent or make it hard for you to build your family.
In Arizona we have heard a bill is being drafted that will make surrogacy a thing of the past as a family building option. Couples who want to use surrogacy will have to do so in another state. We have heard rumors about a few other anti-fertility bills but we are waiting for final bill language. What is happening in your state?
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