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infertility

Why pregnant women feel the need to keep secrets

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We tell the world about the lives that live, but we hold inside the lives that are lost. By Adrian Rose

March 7, 2022 Culture, Family

What happens to people with infertility during a pandemic?

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According to specialists, a 12-week delay won’t make the difference between someone having a baby or not. By Mimi Sager Yoskowitz

May 13, 2020 Culture, Family

What the women in the waiting room are thinking

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Every fertility journey is different. You never really know what somebody else is going through. By Amy Klein

April 9, 2020 Books, Family

The irrational hope of an infertile woman

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No matter how many times I failed, there wasn’t a month that went by that Hope didn’t convince me I was pregnant. By Amy Gallo Ryan

March 5, 2020 Parenting Challenges

The watershed moment I realized I wanted to be a mother

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I wonder now why it came as such a shock to me that friends would get married, that wild nights out would become sleepless ones at home with a baby. By Claire Lynch

July 18, 2019 Family

21 hard things about motherhood my son might never know

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When he was two, I spent mornings stuffing tubes of penne with scrambled eggs to trick him into eating something other than pasta. By Marianna Marlowe

November 29, 2018 Family

Learning how to talk to my ovaries

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So why is it you want a baby, my therapist asks. Love, I answer.
By Bethany Marcel

May 16, 2017 Parenting Challenges

How to handle it when IVF takes over your life

drawing of IVF
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More than my body and my schedule, IVF took over my mind.
By Belle Boggs

April 17, 2017 Books, Parenting Challenges

How to RSVP when you are going through IVF

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Sorry, can’t make it to the sorority reunion. My thermometer says I’m ovulating!
By Amy Klein

April 13, 2017 Family, Obstacles, Parenting Challenges

In the moment of miscarriage

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I can’t imagine spreading my legs and letting doctors make quick work of this loss.
By Nicole Piasecki

January 12, 2017 Parenting Challenges

Winter is here, but my baby is not

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I’m postpartum. Without a newborn. At 20 weeks of pregnancy, my baby didn’t make it.
By Jenn Press Arata

December 6, 2016 Parenting Challenges

Almost 40, dating, and I want another baby

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What shocked me most about online dating was the absolute scorn for women who wanted, or already had, children.
By Dena Landon

November 30, 2016 Parenting Challenges

An ultrasound of a beating heart, at last

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By the time we left China, it felt like he was ours, wholly and completely. And he is. But he is not.
By Kelly Westhoff

September 27, 2016 Family, Parenting Challenges

Fertility is not a competitive sport

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I was ashamed of my pregnancy losses. I felt I had been kicked out of some elite club of women with impeccably functioning wombs.
By Stephanie Sprenger

July 21, 2016 Parenting Challenges
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