LESSONS & LEMONS

How can you possibly miss something you never knew? Easy. Infertility does that. Bedtime routines, rules about sharing, meal time...

It's a lifetime of love, hope, and dreams. Especially when you're doing IVF and an embryo is all you have. Let's make this visual -...

Strange confession (I can't believe I'm coming out with this): there was a period of time when I became obsessed with other women's...

Sometimes, it takes a village to get you pregnant.

If we're wearing our positive pants, infertility can be seen as a series of tiny wins. *You've saved enough money for IVF *You get your...

One morning, out of no where, I find myself free-falling. I'm in a panic and I can't breathe. I am powerless against the force of...

After our massive IVF fail, I wrote about strategies for coping that helped me get through a pretty dark time. One of those strategies...

I'm doing the best I can. I don't know how to do this any differently. You assign strong or weak - healthy or unhealthy - sane or crazy...

Christmas is a complicated time for so many. Particularly for our community struggling with infertility, Christmas can be bitter sweet. ...

After 13 days of preparation, we are ready for egg retrieval. I was surprised by the sheer anxiety that coursed through me when we got...

Have you ever stopped to think about IVF? Like, really actually think about what it means? Outside of the cost/emotion/disbelief that...

I was wrong. Just when I thought I was in a good place, I was mistaken. I thought that I was going into this IVF process all Zen-like. I...

A week ago, I was lucky enough to go to the Taylor Swift concert with my girlfriends. I don’t say I’m lucky for the fan-girl reason you...

Babymoon - "A relaxing or romantic vacation taken by parents-to-be before their baby is born". It's a thing. If you haven't taken one...

Holding on is exhausting. All I’ve been trying to do during my season of being less-than-fertile is to hold on. Hold onto hope, time,...

I’ve felt weird being in churches lately. Something about the slowness, the room for contemplation, the reflection, the prayer, the...

I can’t tell you the last time I took a pregnancy test. That might sound crazy considering we’ve been trying for over 50 cycles. The...