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Here’s Where the Story Ends
…or Begins. Depending on how you look at it. After almost a year of blogging all the news your womb can use, this will be my final week here at Fertility Notes and at b5media. Sniff. But donR...
Health & Wellness Theme Day - I Missed It, But You Don’t Have To
Earlier this week while I was propped up in bed (doctor’s orders I swear), most of the b5media health and wellness channel celebrated our monthly theme day. This month’s theme was Independ...
Self-Screening Tool Introduced to Diagnose Endometriosis Early, Help Preserve Fertility
School girls in Australia will help the Canberra Endometriosis Clinic test out a new self-screening tool that is meant to help diagnose the disease early in women and minimize its impact on their live...
What Defines You? Is It Your (In)Fertility?
Chapter six of Fully Fertile: A 12-Week Plan for Optimal Fertility is entitled, Identifying and Eliminating Your Stressors, and in it, a section is dedicated to your job and the stresses it brings to...
Start a Fully Fertile Book Club
I know that I keep tempting you with a full book review of Fully Fertile: A 12-Week Plan for Optimal Fertility, but the more I read, the more I think it makes sense to share some of the “a ha!&#...
The Wall Street Journal Chimes in on Fertility
In a good way. I was so pleased to see this appear in the online version of today’s Wall Street Journal. The post was in response to this Sunday’s New York Times Magazine which discusses t...
Being Pregnant = Being Incapable of Packing a Bag???
As much as I long to be a mother, there are some moments that give me pause. I wrote about one of those moments here. Another thing that gives me just a moment of hesitation on my path towards parenth...
b5media Theme Day - School’s Out! What are You Doing to Continue Your Sex/Fertility Education?
All of the commenters on this post agreed that yes, definitely, more information on fertility issues and infertility should be shared as part of one’s education. Perhaps in sex ed; perhaps in ps...
Taking Ownership of a Childfree Life
Confession: I’m having a harder time with “Celebrity Week” here at Fertility Notes than I thought I would. Of course, I can rehash the who used IVF and who didn’t and point to ...
Summer Reading - Some Fertile Words
I confess. I have a stack of summer reading to do and I have been avoiding all of the titles that are fertility-related. Because I just haven’t been ready to focus on my own fertility until we g...
Show Your Support for HR 2892 The Family Building Act
There she goes again, talking about the need for insurance coverage for fertility treatments. What a broken record. Yes, you’re right. It is a topic I cover often here - this crazy notion that...
“Oops, I forgot to have a baby!”
Somebody buy me this. Please. I stumbled across this site, utterly by accident and now I want everything they have in stock. What’s even better than the bumper sticker? It’s description: B...
Stop by the Women’s Health Expo in Time for National Women’s Health Week
You have one more day to celebrate National Women’s Health Week. Don’t feel like leaving the house today? Just stop by the Women’s Health Expo at Revolution Health. It’s kind o...
Fertility Notes Joins Bloggers Unite for Human Rights
May 15 is Bloggers Unite for Human Rights Day. I hate feeling left out, so Fertility Notes has joined the charge! In my mind, reproductive rights and women’s right to affordable and accessible h...
The Best Cool Mom Blogs (According to Me)
Just because I’m not a fan of Mother’s Day doesn’t mean I don’t love the moms. I loves the moms. I love the mom bloggers - especially those that remind me that I can still hav...
Living Childfree in the Midst of Mother’s Day
Tomorrow is Mother’s Day. Yes, thank you, Captain Obvious. Unless you’ve been living under a rock, this fact is painfully clear to you. Did you buy your mom a card? Does she really know ho...
Celebrating Female Candidates and the Issues They Champion
I love that I am finally mature enough to appreciate, nay embrace, the opportunity to hang out with a ton of cool women congregated together in one room. The occasion? A local fundraiser for the Penns...
“Blogging Infertility” and What It All Means
I have to admit, I have been sweating about this article in the most recent New Atlantis ever since I was interviewed for it several months ago. It felt like I rambled. Did I ramble? Some questions f...
Where I Wish I Were Today
Today is the RESOLVE Advocacy Day in Washington DC. At least from my window, the sun is shining and it looks to be a gorgeous day. I bet there are even some cherry blossoms hanging on, waiting to be s...
Images and Shapes of Fertility
Art Critic Laura Cummings just wrote a gorgeous essay on the portrayal of fertility and infertility in art in Sunday’s Observer. She says this about a postcard depicting the Madonna del Parto by...
15 More Days ‘Til RESOLVE’s Advocacy Day
From the National Infertility Association: Who better to tell Congress about the need for change than you? Register Now to Make Your Voice Heard! Join RESOLVE for Advocacy Day Details: Washington, DC...
An Alternative to the Tampax Plan
Remember a few months ago when this Tampax ad and plea for us to “use our periods for good” had me kind of nutty? Well, if you are really concerned about young African women having the im...
It’s the Barren B*tches Book Brigade! Embryo Culture by Beth Kohl
Welcome to the most recent installment of the Barren B*tches Book Brigade - a virtual book club where a bunch of bloggers read a book, ask each other questions and then post responses on their various...
Is Your Health Insurance Supposed to Cover Fertility?
If you live in Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Montana, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Rhode Island or Texas – that answer is yes, at least some of it, as...
Local Event: Birth without Borders Events
Sorry for the late notice, but if anyone happens to be passing by the Pennsylvania Capitol today, there is a Birth without Borders Event that may be of interest for anyone a little further down the fe...
Choice, Infertility and Reproductive Rights
Let’s get this straight – a fertility blogger is participating in a movement celebrating the anniversary of the passage of Roe v. Wade 35 years ago? Damn straight. And here is why Choice should ma...
AFA Response to the Tyra Banks Show
So, I was pretty upset by the Tyra Banks Show last week. But I wasn’t the only one. Melissa includes a link to Fertility Notes (thanks!) and several other blogs in her Thursday article for BlogH...
What Curious Relationships Us Women Have with Our Wombs.
What curious relationships us women have with our wombs. I bet our adolescent and teen years really weren’t all that different. Those were the years when the fear of pregnancy hung over your head...
The Best Infertility Blog Posts of 2007
You already know that there is a legion of blogs that discuss fertility, infertility, and various (sometimes unconventional) paths towards creating a family. While we share a common theme, each blogge...
Who Doesn’t Need a Reality Check?
How is it that I am just now finding this great web resource? RH Reality Check is an online community and publication serving individuals and organizations committed to advancing sexual and reproducti...