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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...
Freebie Friday - Who Won a Fertility Scope?
Why BRANDI! It’s you! You are this week’s Freebie Friday Winner! Brandi is now the proud owner of a Fertility Scope - an adorable little contraption designed to test your saliva to determi...
Cramping During the Two Week Wait
Cramps suck. They suck when they signal the arrival of an Aunt that you didn’t really want to see this month. They suck when they turn your pre-menstrual blues into actual pain. But I think they...
The 08-09 Cancer & Fertility Resource Guide is here!
All right! It’s here! I was going to save this for Freebie Friday, but I can’t wait. The 2008-2009 version of Fertile Hope’s Cancer and Fertility Resource Guide is now available. C...
Newsweek Shines a Light on Oncofertility
You may have heard the term Oncofertility mentioned here at Fertility Notes before. A Newsweek article that will be published in the August 4th issue of the magazine gives a great explanation of what ...
More Updates - The Conquer Childhood Cancer Act
Back in April, I mentioned the Conquer Childhood Cancer Act, a piece of legislation which would provide critical resources for the treatment, prevention and cure of childhood cancer. Why? Because infe...
Has “Technofertility” Taken Over?
When you have a few minutes (because it’s pretty darn long), go check out this article at Psychology Today entitled, “Who Stole Fertility?” Originally written for the 1996 March/Apri...
Freebie Friday Bonus! Free “In the Know” Booklet from FertilityLifeLines
To make up for those Fridays when you checked only to find Freebie Friday was on a little vacation, I have not 1 but 2 Freebie Fridays today! FertilityLifeLines.com is offering a FREE 48-page booklet...
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...
A Fertile Week for Fertility News
The annual meeting of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology began this Sunday in Spain and will last until Wednesday. That’s nearly a full week of professionals getting toge...
Which Comes First, Chicken or the Egg? Stress or Infertility?
You know that I am trying to embrace a mind-body connection during this cycle. I’ve been talking about prana and Qi. I am guessing some of my real life friends are scratching their heads thinkin...
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...
One Egg or Two? Oh Sorry, You Only Get One
BBC News reports that IVF clinics in the United Kingdom have been given a mandate to reduce the number of multiple births resulting from IVF treatments from 25% to 10% over the next three years. This...
Clinical Trials Offer Lower Cost Fertility Options
One way to make fertility treatments more affordable is participating in clinical trials or research studies. Different studies have different eligibility requirements, and I’m thinking a clinic...
Fertility Treatments = Strains of Fascism?
Very, very curious about how you feel about this article in today’s Guardian in which Nicholas Blincoe wonders why people try to conceive spend so much time whining (his words, not mine): Is thi...
Celebrity Week Continues…
Just a few days in, and I am ready for Celebrity Week to be over. I click on the latest celebrity stories as much as the next person; I thought this would be easy. But lists of who did what to get a y...
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 ...
“Celebrity Week” at the Health & Wellness Channel Begins Tomorrow
Who doesn’t peruse the People Magazine while waiting in line at the grocery checkout? Who doesn’t pick up an Us Magazine or its ilk when waiting to be called at the dentist? Even if you do...
Probably More Than You Wanted To Know
After more than a month of dreading, teeth gnashing, cursing the needles, pins and pills of this “mock cycle,” yesterday’s tests finally happened. My sweaty palms dried after a visi...
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...
Should Sex Education Include Lessons on Infertility?
Most of the time education in middle school, if you are lucky enough to have sex education, focuses on NOT getting pregnant. Rarely does it broach the subject of infertility. Unless, of course, a cert...
“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...
It’s the Barren B*tches Book Brigade! Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
I’m late! I’m late! For my Barren B*tches Book Tour Date! But better late than never, right? For those of you who aren’t familiar, each month, bloggers can sign up to read and review a book, us...
Fertility News Around the Health & Wellness Channel
I am taking this gorgeous long weekend to replant some herbs and plants and enjoy fertility of a different kind. But before I head into the sun, I want to share some news around the b5media Health ...
Navigating the Cold of Cryopreservation and What to Do with “Extra” Embryos
I don’t know if you remember, but a few months ago I wrote about donating embryos and what a tricky, tricky topic this can be: for those in search of embryos looking to “adopt” as we...
Homework from My Acupuncturist – Stimulating Points for Fertility
Check out my new gear. No, no, not the earrings. The earbuds. Those lovely little patches that contain magnets, perfectly placed to stimulate points in my ears that are related to fertility. That’s ...
The Fabbest Five Posts from Fertility Notes (so far)
I’d like to think that every post at Fertility Notes is fascinating, scintillating, thought-provoking…but this week, the Health and Wellness channel has asked us to pick our top five. So h...
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...
Get Connected for Mental Health Month
May is Mental Health Month, but don’t worry. I’m not going to tell you to “just relax.” This year’s theme is “Get Connected.” Let’s talk about that. In ...
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...