Fertility Blog

Unsolicited advice is a tricky one.  Our friends and family provide it from a place of love.  They see us in pain, we have a problem, and they’re just trying to fix it.  They want to provide us with a solution.  And as a self-diagnosed “fixer”, I completely understand.  I’ve been on the receiving en...

At various times throughout my fertility journey, I found myself sitting across from a psychic medium – basically, a complete stranger who knew nothing about me, and who I knew nothing about in return, begging them to tell me what the future held.  How would this end up?  Would I get my baby in my a...

There are so many mixed emotions that come up on your fertility journey.  And they’re not little emotions either.  They’re the big chunky ones that don’t go away by “just thinking positively”.  On this journey, you experience the highest of highs, and the lowest of lows.  And after a while, it can b...

When you’re faced with the reality of going down the path of donor conception, it’s a complicated range of emotions you face. The most prevalent one, being grief.  While I didn’t go down the donor path, I guess in a roundabout way, I did.  We used a surrogate to have our little boy, Luca, which stil...

I guess the question is - at what point should you worry that you’re still not pregnant?

When you’re trying to conceive, time can feel like it’s standing still.  The timed sex, the two-week wait, and the final let down.  Just one month seems like an eternity.  And if you’re impatient like me, you e...

It really annoys me that the level of education we’re provided about our body, our cycle and our fertility when we’re young is so lacking.  All I remember learning from our sex education classes in school was how to put a condom on a banana, and that just having sex with someone would get me pregnan...

When I start working with my clients, one of the questions I ask them is…..how do you want to feel right now?  Their responses vary slightly, but there is one underlying theme. They want to feel calm, be content, and find some peace on this journey.

We try all the tricks in the book to find some p...

I read somewhere (I can’t recall, nor confirm it’s accuracy) that in most infertility cases, 30% is due to male factor infertility, 30% relates to female issues, and 30% is due to both, and for the remaining 10%?  Well, who the f*k knows? This is where the dreaded “unexplained infertility” comes int...

It’s like the main event.  A finish line of sorts.  You’ve done the training and all the work that has led you to this moment.  And now you get to cross the line and claim your medal. Beyond your transfer, there is nothing more you can do. You’re basically powerless after this. You’ve been able to “...

I’m not here to sugarcoat it.  Mother’s Day is coming up, and for those experiencing infertility or pregnancy loss, it can bring up a LOT of really hard emotions.  There’s that fear of wondering whether it will ever be your turn to celebrate, the utter sadness and grief of not being where you though...

When you’re struggling to conceive, it can feel like your whole life has been consumed by infertility.  It becomes our sole goal and purpose, and it squeezes the enjoyment out of most things in our life.  Our job becomes merely a source of income to fund our fertility treatments, our relationship an...

I remember when I went to my first fertility specialist after trying to conceive naturally for 6 months.  We did all the tests, and after assessing our results, they suggested that we move straight to IVF.  And while I definitely didn’t want to go down this path, I felt an amount of relief.  This wa...