For many of us, the start of a new year feels like the perfect time to take bold steps toward our dreams. If growing your family is one of your goals, now may be the right time to focus on changes that can significantly boost your chances of success.
Instead of adding new habits, let’s explore what might be worth leaving behind. Here are five things to avoid in the new year if you’re trying to conceive.
Going through IVF or egg freezing can be daunting.
Here are 5 simple tips I share with patients to help them navigate their IVF or egg freezing cycle.
October if Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month. When I had my first miscarriage my first thoughts were, there must be a mistake, what did I do wrong? Why me?... In this article I share some tools that worked for me in the past and continue to work for me today. I say continue to work because grieving pregnancy loss is not a one and done process, it a lifelong journey, a deep ache that is like a causeway; hidden in high tides when your cup is full, but exposed and bare when your cup is low.
September is PCOS Awareness Month. Although there’s some confusion about the condition, much is known about PCOS. Unfortunately, misinformation, often spread by those with ulterior motives, has clouded the truth. Here is what you need to know about PCOS and fertility.
Uterine Fibroids are very common benign (i.e not cancer) growths of the uterine muscle. By age 50, up to 80% of women will have at least one uterine fibroid. Unfortunately, the diagnosis is often delayed because concerning symptoms are often dismissed or normalized.
In this blog post, I review 5 signs you may have uterine fibroid and your best next step if you suspect you do.
June is PTSD Awareness Month, a time traditionally focused on recognizing the profound impacts of post-traumatic stress often associated with experiences like war. Yet, there exists a less visible but equally distressing catalyst for PTSD—infertility, pregnancy loss and the related issues of high-risk pregnancies and complicated births. In this post, I aim to shed light on how the challenges of achieving and maintaining a pregnancy can trigger PTSD and tools to help you navigate the journey. By discussing these issues openly, I hope to dismantle the stigma surrounding infertility and mental health and encourage anyone affected to seek the professional help they need and deserve. I hope that if this resonates with you, you end this post knowing that you are not alone, and help is available.
May is Mental Health Awareness Month and as a result, I have been thinking a lot about the immense impact that infertility and pregnancy loss have on mental health. Studies show that navigating fertility can be as emotionally taxing as severe medical conditions like heart disease or cancer.
This Mental Health Awareness Month, I want you to know that your feelings are valid. In this post, I share 5 effective coping strategies to help you manage the stress and emotional impact of your fertility and/or pregnancy loss journey.
If you’re like me, meaning the algorithm knows you're a Cameron Diaz fan, then you’ve seen the story about Cameron Diaz welcoming a baby at age 51.
If you’re looking for an honest and straightforward roadmap of the most viable options to having kids in your late 40s and 50s, you have come to the right place.
The Alabama Supreme Court recently ruled that embryos created from IVF as persons and that anyone who destroys or discards an embryo can be sued and held liable for wrongful death. The essentially equates a fertilized egg to a person in the eyes of the law. This has widespread implications for the ability to provide IVF care in Alabama and potentially the rest of the country. It also has significant implications for the cost, safety and emotional toll of IVF treatments.
If you’re like me then you sometimes push off going to a new doctor’s visit due to the fear of the unknown. Will they have me do a ton of tests? I’m a hard stick and so blood draws are not my favorite. Will I be made to feel ashamed for my choices? How much will it cost? Will they tell me something I don’t want to hear?
It is my hope that this post will demystify your first fertility doctor visit and make the experience less daunting.