In the spirit of the Olympics, I’ve decided to combine my two passions: Sports and Infertility. I admit, something is clearly wrong with a person who would count “infertility” as a passion. For a few years of my […]

Every time the statistics on teen pregnancy come out, don’t you just want to hurt somebody?

Apparently the latest data show that while teen pregnancy is down, it’s still higher in the U.S. than in any other […]

I think one of the hardest things to explain to the “outside world” when you’re dealing with infertility is how ANYTHING can trigger our sadness or negative thoughts and feelings. 

It really doesn’t take much […]

So, what were we talking about? Oh right. The other day we chatted about things we know we shouldn’t think— let alone say.

You may as well make ”infertility” number 3 on the top 100 list of unacceptable […]

We’re impossible. We are. When you’re going through infertility, there’s no way to talk to us. The first thing to go may be our ability to conceive easily. But then, three of our senses tailgate very closely […]

So this week at Laughing IS Conceivable, we’ve been toying with the intriguing notion that we all just got great news:

That this whole infertility debacle that we’ve been referring to as “my life”  for the past […]

I’ll tell you…it’s easy to be po’d at celebrities.  All of them with twins conceived with their own 50 year old eggs.  Imagine that. And then they don’t want to share their fertility secrets with us! I just want to poke them: “Hey, you’re in the public eye! You picked this line of work! You can’t just keep your infertility issues to [...]

Anyone who has ever dealt with infertility has also, at one time or another, dealt with well-meaning friends and relatives peddling their useless infertility advice…Free of charge… The only catch is: We have to listen to it. My husband and I went to a Health Fair a few weekends ago. It had everything we ever dreamed of in [...]

So, I’ve been made aware that there are many infertile women out there who are still not fully recovered from Mother’s Day.  And, by the way… That’s okay.  I’ve been blogging all about that for the past two weeks, giving Mother’s Day the tribute it deserves with plenty of good old fashioned anger and violence. That depressing, Hallmark-induced,…[Read more]

This is “Sweep Week”.  Not to be confused with “Sweeps Week” on TV when shows all put on their best episodes so they won’t get canceled. No, this is “Sweep Week”: The days following National Infertility Awareness Week when we have to clean up the mess we all left behind with our big National Infertility Awareness Week celebration [...]

So, “National Infertility Awareness Week” is almost upon us and I’m not at all sure I’m comfortable with that. I’ll be honest: From the time I even suspected I might not be able to conceive naturally to a year later when I began treatments, to about an hour ago, I was in the infertility closet. I know that [...]

Traveling abroad for fertility treatments and procedures. What fun. We’re like the US Army:  “Join the Infertiles. See the World.” Look, there are a lot of people, from what I’ve read, who go to foreign countries for fertility treatments. Especially if you live some place where it’s illegal to do what you need done or it’s just not [...]

As March comes to a close, I couldn’t help thinking back to what we associate with the month:  College..As in basketball… and Spring Break. We infertiles could use a break. And I can’t help wonder what a group of us on Spring Break would look like. Oh the mischief and mayhem……………  So here we are on Spring [...]

So I’m a big baseball fan and Spring training is in full swing. I thought maybe it would be a good time for all of us infertility vets to give a little Spring training to those just embarking on infertilityand treatments. What we infertility vets want you newcomers to know:   You know yourself. Your husband/wife/partner knows you. [...]

I don’t know if things have changed in the few years since I was in the fertility injectibles game, but I had a hard time finding a place fo fill  my cockamamie prescriptions. I thought I’d just walk into any CVS: “Yeah, I’ll take this bottle of Tylenol, a People magazine and a vial of [...]