I recently spoke to Tim Edwards about Mavericks Miracle Babies and how this organization was founded. I am always so impressed with the professionals that support infertility because so many of them have had their own personal experience with infertility and they have used this experience to help others in their journey. Tim and Kelsey are an amazing couple [...]
Today our guest blog post features Embryo donation and adoption, a new way to adopt! Rather than adopting a child who has already emerged from her mother’s womb, embryo adoption allows the adopting family to begin the adoption journey nine months earlier with pregnancy and childbirth. The following story is a guest blog post from Nightlight Christian [...]
In December 2010, three other women and I who all attended a support group decided to organize an infertility awareness conference during National Infertility Awareness Week to support couples in the Kansas City area who were struggling to build their family. We hoped for at least 50 attendees and were blown away when 200+ showed [...]
Today’s blog post comes from Azalene Williams. She is the author of INFERTILITY: Road to Hell and Back, one of the most viewed Infertility Survival Kit book listings in March. She published her memoir in 2011 after years of infertility treatment and now donates half of its profits to Doctor’s for Life, an international company [...]
I’m often asked why wheat and dairy is prohibited on a fertility diet when trying to conceive. The arguments I have for taking either out of the diet are similar for both. Let’s start with wheat. There are a few reasons it’s off the list. It’s hard to digest. When trying to conceive, we want [...]
My friend Fran Meadows from www.secretinfertility.com recently sent me the link to this kickstarter campaign for an amazing new product to help with male factor infertility. I immediately LOVED it and felt compelled to reach out and introduce My Hopeful Journey and our mission to simplify infertility. They responded right away and are adding a level for My Hopeful Journey [...]
So, what should you drink when you’re on a fertility diet? Because 70% of our bodies are made up of water and it’s so good for our health, it’s really important, especially when trying to conceive, that you drink plenty of clean, purified water—I would say, almost exclusively. I emphasize “purified,” because (very sadly) even [...]
At 40, after trying to get pregnant for over a year, I visited a popular reproductive endocrinologist (a fertility doctor) in San Francisco who told me I had a 2% chance of conceiving on my own. This was primarily due to my age, but also because my FSH had started to rise. (It was 8, [...]
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