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There is no dearth of options when it comes to home fertility tests. Tests for you, for your partner. Little kits to help you determine the time and date when your odds of making babies are the most fertile. How strong are his sperm? How viscous your pathway? How many eggs do you have left? […]
Last week as M and I were enjoying an evening at a friends’ house (something we don’t do often enough), I caught a glimpse of a set of 10 little statements, mantras almost, clipped from a new agey magazine and hanging in her kitchen. My first impulse was to tease, but then I started reading […]
It’s April 15 and accountants and taxpayers across America are either breathing a sigh of relief or scrambling to help their clients or themselves get to the post office with their completed income tax forms by midnight tonight.
I am guessing that if you are like me, and Mother Nature is not the only person you […]
Fertile Dream’s 4th Annual Paths to Parenthood Conference will be taking place at the Orlando Marriott on Sunday, May 4th.
Why am I telling you this? Besides the fact that there seems to be a great lineup of speakers, it is FREE!
Yes, completely free. The conference runs from 8 am to 4:30 pm and your free […]
Sometimes there are events or scenarios that give me pause, make me rethink this whole “having a baby” thing.
This weekend was host to one of those scenarios.
Not the main event - that was a baptism of one of our family members. That portion of the weekend was very nice and family-affirming, even with a mandatory […]
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 felt loaded. Am I being baited? Did I take the bait? What’s the bait? What’s the desired […]
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 seen.
I had been secretly harboring a hope to sneak down to DC today (it is less […]
Kawasaki, Japan was the place to be on Sunday - over 30,000 people (and perhaps just as many phallic objects) were on hand to celebrate the annual fertility festival. According to a Reuters report the Kanamara festival dates back over three hundred years when ladies of the night asked for protection from an epidemic of […]
A recent study done by Jennifer Bailey and Karl Hill from the University of Washington’s Social Development Research Group found that,
Despite public health campaigns, a surprising number of women continue to use substances such as tobacco, marijuana and alcohol during pregnancy and their usage rebounds to pre-pregnancy levels within two years of having a […]
The next time you are baring your soul with your RE or precariously perched at the edge of a table at your gynecologist and s/he pulls out his/her blackberry, don’t be offended. She may be helping you.
Last month, according to Medical News Today, USBMIS, a leading provider of mobile medical software, announced the release of […]
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