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Fertility Notes- a fertility blog with all the news your womb can use

December 20th, 2007

The Resurge of Nature

In a way winter is the real spring, the time when the inner thing happens, the resurge of nature.
-Edna O’Brien
I love that line. And it feels so true. D*mn if all my friends aren’t pregnant.
Ok, I am exaggerating. Not all my friends (as my friends reading this blog breathe a sigh of relief. […]

By Gabrielle -- 0 comments

December 8th, 2007

“Use Your Period For Good” - Part II

I am still fuming about this and its taken me a little while to figure out why. I think I’ve got it now.
At the very heart of this statement is an implication that a period somehow needs to be put to use or justified beyond its very existence. There is an assumption that “just” a […]

By Gabrielle -- 1 comment

November 15th, 2007

Early, Early Diagnosis and Prenatal Testing for Autism

[Note: I am honored to have Kristina Chew, Ph.D. from Autism Vox as a guest poster here today.]
Last month the American Academy of Pediatricians (AAP) called for universal screening of young children for autism. Many have applauded the new guidelines, while others have cautioned that we may be in danger of over-diagnosing autism in young […]

By Gabrielle -- 3 comments

November 11th, 2007

Clocks A Tickin’

One of the opening speakers at last week’s Pennsylvania Governor’s Conference for Women was Indra K. Nooyi, the chairman and chief executive officer of PepsiCo. As a mother of two and arguably one of the most successful female executives in the world, Indra spoke to the challenges of motherhood and trying to maintain the […]

By Gabrielle -- 1 comment

October 24th, 2007

I Need to Sleep - and So Do You. Sleep Can Affect Fertility

I noticed that both Kristina at Autism Vox and Mary Emma at Alzheimer’s Notes wrote about sleep issue today and it made me remember that the infamous sleep deprivation that comes in the first few months of motherhood is probably the thing that gives me the most pause when I think about our pursuit of […]

By Gabrielle -- 1 comment