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On the one hand, it makes sense to have kids while you’re still relatively young — in your 20s or 30s — so that you have the energy to keep up with them and take care of their needs better. On the other hand, it’s good to wait so that you’re financially and emotionally stable and so that you can enjoy life without kids for a bit first; it’s difficult to go to grown-up concerts and parties when you have little ones to take care of. Or you could just wait until you retire before having kids.
Unlike a lot of people who deal with infertility, I had a diagnosis and an expectation that things would go not so well long before I was remotely interested in having kids. I was diagnosed with PCOS at age 23 and my wonderful primary care doctor was fairly nonchalant about the fact that when I did want to get pregnant, a little Clomid would do the trick.
It didn’t. But at least I was able to tell my now-husband that getting pregnant might not be so easy once things started getting serious, so neither of us were especially surprised when things didn’t go so well. Many of my friends who also faced down infertility said they envied me that, that I was able to tell my partner long before we were formally committed and let him decide if he was up for the challenges we might face.
A new genetic test might give a new group of women that chance. Continue reading »
It’s a trying time for would-be parents, so wouldn’t it be nice to have a road map for the infertility process?
One that will hopefully lead you TO fertility?
Melissa Ford doesn’t promise she’ll get you pregnant, but her book Navigating the Land of If: Understanding Fertility and Exploring Your Options is one worth taking on the journey. Continue reading »
An Australian woman who just gave birth to her eleventh and twelfth children – most with the help of fertility treatments – may be on track to become the next OctoMom.
Nadya Suleman made headlines first for having eight babies at once, but the outrage was over the six kids she ALREADY had at home. And much of that swirled around the doctors who allowed it happen.
So what’s the story with Dale Chalk? Continue reading »
Because you knew it had to happen.
It sounded like a ripped-from-a-TV-movie nightmare. Bonnie Sweeten called 911 after her she and her daughter were carjacked and held hostage by a duo of black men. A manhunt ensued, searchers raced against time to rescue the 38-year-old Pennsylvania mom and her 9-year-old daughter.
The searchers would never find the two black men. They never existed. Neither did the carjacking. Meanwhile Sweeten and her daughter were riding It’s a Small World at Disney World. Continue reading »
Dr. Sami David, one of the first doctors to ever perform a successful IVF procedure in New York, spoke out this week about what he sees as the overuse of the procedure.
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