Most people can imagine that the autumn and winter family-centric holidays like Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hannukkah, and Diwali, just to mention a few, might be hard to endure if you are struggling with infertility, but Halloween, with literally hundreds of (some adorable, some not) children pounding on your door may be as bad or worse. There [...]

Patients ask me lots of questions via “contact me” from this blog or via an infertility forum that I participate in called GenderDreaming. Lately, I have been getting a lot of questions from patients about should they choose Treatment Option A or Treatment Option B. I find answering these questions troubling for several reasons. First, [...]

Exceptionalism, defined as, “The condition of being exceptional or unique”  is a wonderful thing. Right? We love and reward the exceptional athlete, scholar or leader. But exceptionalism is a double-edged sword because of the second part of the definition,”The theory or belief that something does not conform to a pattern or norm,” can be problematic. [...]

Infertility takes a toll on the individual, but it also takes a toll on couples. It’s the rare couple that gets through this journey without arguments about what to do next, when to start and when to stop infertility treatments. This area is totally outside of my league, but having been the uncomfortable witness to [...]

I bought a new vacuum cleaner today. It was a Consumer Report’s “Best Buy” and on-sale plus I had a 15% off coupon and I had some store “cash” , (the bonus faux money from the last purchase that gets you to come back the next time). So I was feeling pretty good about the [...]

People have been talking about DIna Roth Port’s article in the February 9, 2011 Huffington Post called Infertility: the disease we need to start talking about. According to her article,  infertility is not mentioned in high school health education classes and is barely mentioned in classes for  medical school students and yet afflicts one in [...]

The Chicago Tribune published this story about a 61 year old woman who gave birth to her own grandson. Unconventional certainly, but clearly an act of love by a mother that allowed her daughter and son-in-law to have a biological child- her first grandchild. Her daughter and son-in-law had tried IVF for many years and [...]

You may wonder what national healthcare reform will mean to you and your family. Although a few of the simpler reforms have come to pass, such as letting parents keep their adult children on their health insurance longer, most of the reforms have not gone into effect. It will take six years until all the [...]

Happy New Year! I hope this new year is a year of resolution of infertility for each and every one of you who are suffering from infertility. As difficult as it is, infertility is not a permanent condition, but a life passage. Everyone with infertility moves on to parenting by some means or adapts to [...]

On one December day each year in the Northern hemisphere, the earth is tilted at its furthest limit, leaning away from the sun. Today, Dec 21, at exactly 6:38PM EST, those of us in the Northern hemisphere will be tilted furthest from the sun and experience the fewest hours of daylight and the longest night [...]