Supporting Loved Ones Through Infertility

Supporting others with Infertility is hard. Learn what to say, what to avoid, and how to truly help.

Supporting others with Infertility is hard. Learn what to say, what to avoid, and how to truly help.

Invisible Among Parents

Personal Perspective: Feeling invisible in a parenting-focused world is isolating. This story explores finding identity in a child-free life.

Personal Perspective: Feeling invisible in a parenting-focused world is isolating. This story explores finding identity in a child-free life.

The Struggle of Infertility: Private and Public Lives

The weight of infertility at work can feel isolating. Learn how to authentically share a little while protecting your privacy—and how colleagues can offer subtle support.

The weight of infertility at work can feel isolating. Learn how to authentically share a little while protecting your privacy—and how colleagues can offer subtle support.

The Unseen Paths of Grief: Embracing Loss Beyond the Visible

Honoring our hidden losses, like the quiet sorrows of missed dreams and untaken paths, is essential for true healing.

Honoring our hidden losses, like the quiet sorrows of missed dreams and untaken paths, is essential for true healing.

Living in Cycles: The Time-Warped Reality of Infertility

Infertility shifts your entire sense of time. Life becomes cycles of appointments and waiting. Here's how to reconnect with the present, even in the unknown.

Infertility shifts your entire sense of time. Life becomes cycles of appointments and waiting. Here's how to reconnect with the present, even in the unknown.

Navigating Mother-Daughter Relationships Through Infertility

Mother-daughter relationships face unique challenges surrounding fertility issues, as both confront new vulnerabilities. Mutual understanding and empathy are needed.

Mother-daughter relationships face unique challenges surrounding fertility issues, as both confront new vulnerabilities. Mutual understanding and empathy are needed.

Finding Resilience in the Quiet

Resilience is already within you. You are more than a challenging moment, and you are moving forward, even now.

Resilience is already within you. You are more than a challenging moment, and you are moving forward, even now.

Embracing Growth After Trauma

When life doesn’t go as planned, growth is still possible. Facing adversity can help us discover strength, purpose, and resilience.

When life doesn’t go as planned, growth is still possible. Facing adversity can help us discover strength, purpose, and resilience.

Navigating Shame and Guilt in Secondary Infertility

Secondary infertility is a complex, often hidden struggle. With support, the loss can be navigated. There is no need for guilt or shame.

Secondary infertility is a complex, often hidden struggle. With support, the loss can be navigated. There is no need for guilt or shame.

The Effect of Parenthood on the Adult Personality

We all have a reproductive story, but what happens when your reproductive journey doesn’t go as planned?

We all have a reproductive story, but what happens when your reproductive journey doesn’t go as planned?

The Support Person's Guide to IVF

IVF is a would-be mother's worst nightmare and greatest blessing. From my bedside to your heart, here is a guide for the army of loyal soldiers supporting every "IVF patient."

IVF is a would-be mother's worst nightmare and greatest blessing. From my bedside to your heart, here is a guide for the army of loyal soldiers supporting every "IVF patient."

The Label Expectant Mothers Over 35 Don’t Want to Hear

Over age 35 and expecting? Look beyond the unflattering "geriatric" label to the science supporting healthy “later” pregnancies.

Over age 35 and expecting? Look beyond the unflattering "geriatric" label to the science supporting healthy “later” pregnancies.

Why Third-Party Reproduction Can Feel Uncomfortable

Why does third-party reproduction push some of us outside our comfort zones? Does this discomfort represent fear, or a path to growth?

Why does third-party reproduction push some of us outside our comfort zones? Does this discomfort represent fear, or a path to growth?

How Ancestry Testing Is Transforming Family Conversations

DNA testing platforms are transforming fertility treatments by uncovering hidden connections, fostering openness, and reshaping family narratives with love, trust, and inclusion.

DNA testing platforms are transforming fertility treatments by uncovering hidden connections, fostering openness, and reshaping family narratives with love, trust, and inclusion.

Keeping Up Romance and Sex Life While Dealing With Infertility

Fertility journeys can strain romance, but couples can maintain intimacy by actively creating space for connection, taking stress breaks, and focusing on the present together.

Fertility journeys can strain romance, but couples can maintain intimacy by actively creating space for connection, taking stress breaks, and focusing on the present together.

Supporting Someone After Miscarriage: Your Presence Counts

Supporting someone after a miscarriage can feel overwhelming, but showing up matters. Reminding them they are not alone in their grief.

Supporting someone after a miscarriage can feel overwhelming, but showing up matters. Reminding them they are not alone in their grief.

Disclosing Your Child's Donor Conception Story

Talking to your child about donor conception can be stressful. However, fostering conversations over time can support your child's self-esteem and your relationship.

Talking to your child about donor conception can be stressful. However, fostering conversations over time can support your child's self-esteem and your relationship.

After Roe v. Wade: Impacts on Fertility and Mental Health

How has Roe v. Wade’s reversal reshaped fertility treatments? The decision has led to legal dilemmas, emotional strain, and unforeseen impacts on families and their mental health.

How has Roe v. Wade’s reversal reshaped fertility treatments? The decision has led to legal dilemmas, emotional strain, and unforeseen impacts on families and their mental health.

The Path Less Traveled: Redefining Success Beyond Parenthood

What happens when life doesn’t follow society’s script for success?

What happens when life doesn’t follow society’s script for success?

Why Fertility Treatment Funding Should Matter to Everyone

Fertility treatment funding is a central issue in the 2024 election. Why should it matter to you? Dive in to learn why it goes beyond politics and impacts us all.

Fertility treatment funding is a central issue in the 2024 election. Why should it matter to you? Dive in to learn why it goes beyond politics and impacts us all.

Holding Hope and Uncertainty With Pregnancy

Learn to move forward, while remembering, during Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month.

Learn to move forward, while remembering, during Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month.

The Emotional Trauma of Perinatal Loss

The grief after perinatal loss is one of the most traumatic life events one can experience. Healing involves honoring this loss and finding support to grieve without judgment.

The grief after perinatal loss is one of the most traumatic life events one can experience. Healing involves honoring this loss and finding support to grieve without judgment.

An Overvalued Desire for Motherhood Leads to Homicide

In 2004, Lisa Montgomery packed a knife, umbilical cord clamps, and a clothesline into her car and drove 175 miles to forcibly cut a baby out of the womb of Bobbie Jo Stinnett.

In 2004, Lisa Montgomery packed a knife, umbilical cord clamps, and a clothesline into her car and drove 175 miles to forcibly cut a baby out of the womb of Bobbie Jo Stinnett.

The Blame Game in Infertility

Infertility can challenge relationships and lead to blame and disconnection. Couples can press the reset button with these tips.

Infertility can challenge relationships and lead to blame and disconnection. Couples can press the reset button with these tips.

Shame Disrupts the Family Building Process

Identifying shame as a monster is not only helpful for managing stress and setting boundaries, but can improve your fertility journey,

Identifying shame as a monster is not only helpful for managing stress and setting boundaries, but can improve your fertility journey,

Think Before You Click: Navigating the Digital Health Maze

The internet offers instant access to health info, but beware of misleading data. Prioritize reputable sources and remember that social media advice isn't always reliable.

The internet offers instant access to health info, but beware of misleading data. Prioritize reputable sources and remember that social media advice isn't always reliable.

An Emotional Toolbox for Fertility Treatment

Creating an emotional toolbox can help you achieve your family-building goals by enhancing your health, relationships, decision-making, and reducing the risk of treatment dropout.

Creating an emotional toolbox can help you achieve your family-building goals by enhancing your health, relationships, decision-making, and reducing the risk of treatment dropout.

Enhancing Family Connections in Donor Conception

Simplifying and clarifying donor conception processes enhances family connections, prioritizes children's well-being, and fosters meaningful relationships with donor relatives.

Simplifying and clarifying donor conception processes enhances family connections, prioritizes children's well-being, and fosters meaningful relationships with donor relatives.

The Reason Why Some Women Are Childless

Pundits and politicians ought to remember that fertility outcomes are the byproduct of individuals' fertility intentions and their ability to actualize them.

Pundits and politicians ought to remember that fertility outcomes are the byproduct of individuals' fertility intentions and their ability to actualize them.

The Decision to Connect with Donor-Related Siblings

As donor conception enters the zeitgeist, more parents and donor-conceived children connect with donor-related siblings, but no approach works for everyone

As donor conception enters the zeitgeist, more parents and donor-conceived children connect with donor-related siblings, but no approach works for everyone