Donor Children: Nature or Nurture for “The Perfect Child”
I feel like it is Third Party Reproduction Week here at The Fertility Advocate. Donor eggs, Donor Sperm, Embryo Donation, and Surrogacy are big issues for the infertility community. And an issue...
View ArticleThe Theresa Erickson Baby Selling Ring: The After-Shocks Are Just Beginning..
My day yesterday, and now today has been filled with being a media resource for print and television around all things Theresa Erickson: “baby selling”, Surrogacy and egg donation. This is not a new...
View ArticleInfertility Does Not Have To Wreck Your Sex Life and Self Image
One of the hardest part of trying to conceive is what it can do to your sex life. I remember being told that I had “Hostile Cervical Mucus”…..now isn’t that hot? “Come on Honey – Don’t you want me and...
View ArticleGays, Lesbians and Unmarried People Accessing Reproductive Medicine More and...
I had a rip roaring fight with a woman in a Starbucks the other day. A gay couple came in with their baby, a gorgeous little girl around six months old and they got in line for their latte right...
View ArticlePutting Yourself First While Going Through Infertility
Sometimes we get lost in a quest. I don’t care whether it is the desire to conquer infertility and have a baby or something else. We can get so wrapped up and single minded that everything else around...
View ArticleCan You Fix The Human Egg?
Louise Brown the first IVF child conceived is now an adult and a mother. So much has changed since her conception and birth – and yet so much has stayed the same. When it comes to human reproduction...
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The Choice NOT To Have a Baby (Even When You Really Want One)
This week in one of my fertility coaching sessions with one of my clients, we explored the possibility of not moving ahead with IVF, and what it would be like to stop infertility treatment. “Sara” has...
View ArticleThinking of Getting Pregnant in 2012? Or Are You Still On The Conception Fence?
One of my coaching clients is a single woman who started to see me because she wanted to have a better relationship with her sexuality and her body. Fertility was an issue for her – but it was pretty...
View ArticleComing Clean About Eating Disorders, Infertility and Sexualty
I am a woman that talks about everything, and when talking about it is not enough – I write books and blogs! One of the hardest things for me to talk about is not infertility, or sexuality – it is my...
View ArticleInterpreting The Red Flags, Flashing Lights and Other Warning Signs of...
Conventional wisdom has it that if after a year of unprotected sex , if a couple hasn’t produced a pregnancy, they’re officially “infertile”. It’s an okay rule of thumb, if you’ve got a year to...
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