Fertility Blog

Infertility is a completely unique experience.  It’s complicated and complex, and half the time, we can’t even make sense of it ourselves.  We’re dealing with big emotions, enormous fears, so much uncertainty, and it really does throw everything we had previously thought about life out the window.

One of the most common sources of stress when it comes to trying to have a baby……is your age.

When my husband and I started trying to conceive, I was 33 years old.  It seems so young now that I’m closer to 50 than 40. But back then it was still a source of contention.  I didn’t think anything of i...

It’s not something we pictured we’d do when we decided it was time to start our family. The decision to go down the path of IVF is not an easy one to make. For some of us, we resist it. We may have even been adamant when we first started trying to conceive that there was no way we would ever do it. ...

On this journey, we experience so much loss.  Whether it’s a miscarriage or pregnancy loss, an unsuccessful egg retrieval or frozen embryo transfer, the loss of that picture you had in your head of how your family was going to look, and when this was going to happen.

It’s that loss of innocence.

T...

When you’re going through infertility, whether you’re trying to conceive naturally, or doing IVF or IUI, there are so many questions to navigate your way through.

Sure, we get the insensitive ones from complete strangers or acquaintances – When are you going to have children? Do you have any childr...

Unexplained infertility.  It’s one of the most frustrating diagnoses, because it is basically saying – we don’t know what the f*ck is wrong with you.

Wikipedia defines it as – infertility that is idiopathic in the sense that its cause remains unknown even after an infertility work-up, usually incl...

I was just a woman, standing in front of a pregnancy test, praying for it to be positive.

For any woman who has dreamed of becoming a mother, there is a brief moment that we all share. A common point in time that unites us. A moment that we will always remember. 

Those three minutes when you stand...

Unsolicited advice is a tricky one.  Our friends and family provide it from a place of love.  They see us in pain, we have a problem, and they’re just trying to fix it.  They want to provide us with a solution.  And as a self-diagnosed “fixer”, I completely understand.  I’ve been on the receiving en...

At various times throughout my fertility journey, I found myself sitting across from a psychic medium – basically, a complete stranger who knew nothing about me, and who I knew nothing about in return, begging them to tell me what the future held.  How would this end up?  Would I get my baby in my a...

There are so many mixed emotions that come up on your fertility journey.  And they’re not little emotions either.  They’re the big chunky ones that don’t go away by “just thinking positively”.  On this journey, you experience the highest of highs, and the lowest of lows.  And after a while, it can b...

When you’re faced with the reality of going down the path of donor conception, it’s a complicated range of emotions you face. The most prevalent one, being grief.  While I didn’t go down the donor path, I guess in a roundabout way, I did.  We used a surrogate to have our little boy, Luca, which stil...

I guess the question is - at what point should you worry that you’re still not pregnant?

When you’re trying to conceive, time can feel like it’s standing still.  The timed sex, the two-week wait, and the final let down.  Just one month seems like an eternity.  And if you’re impatient like me, you e...