Deck your private hell with boughs of holly! The holiday season is upon us, and it can be excruciating for anyone going through infertility. With its glitter and gatherings and chatter, with its emphasis on children and family and cheer, the Thanksgiving-to-Christmas-to-New Year trifecta can feel like a series of events designed to highlight what you lack.
Read more »“I love the way she describes the IVF process and think it could be a real help to patients as they navigate the choices. Reading the story serves to make me a better doctor by understanding how what I say is perceived.”
—Dr. Mary Ramie Hinckley, of Reproductive Science Center
No amount of Spanx or tailoring would alter the fact that at age 43, all dressed-up in a hotel room for my 25th high school reunion, I looked slightly pregnant. It struck me as a strange irony. After years of struggling to conceive, after a round of IVF and a grueling twin pregnancy, I now […]
Read more »The four of us were close in college: Tina, Lisa, Jill and me. If we could have looked into a crystal ball, how shocked we would have been to see ourselves at 40: three of us with twins, and one of us diagnosed with a rare uterine cancer. Tina and Lisa had twins in their […]
Read more »I have a new story on The Huffington Post, just up today. Though people say technologies like online dating or IVF or C-sections unnaturally control things, the opposite is true. They open you to whole new levels of randomness, hazard, surprise and wonder. With IVF especially it felt like I spent a year at Reproductive Burning Man: with masses of people, piles of drugs, and anticipation of a final, cathartic event.
Read more »C-sections are often hailed as unnecessary, agonizing and overused. On this topic, I can speak only for myself. That said, strange as it sounds, there were things I actually loved about my surgical birth. On The Huffington Post today.
Read more »Also on The Huffington Post Parents, this one got many responses from fertility practitioners, including my own IVF doctor. I teared up reading her response—in a good way.
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It still startles me that people make babies with sex. Privately. Easily. Fast. Then there’s a birth, and no one looks back. For me, like many women, conception was an agonized, un-caffeinated blur of escalating medical procedures, followed by a pregnancy that seemed to last not the actual 36 weeks, but rather the whole 36 […]
Read more »From Jdate.com to IVF to C-section, this is my ode to the “unnatural” means of making a family, in an era where everything is natural, paleo, and organic. Originally published on Babycenter.com
Read more »This is about my odyssey of eating for three while carrying IVF twins. I’d been vegan for years, and it turns out it’s not easy to pack on this much heft. Originally on Babycenter.com.
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