Anyone going through fertility treatments to conceive, knows the stress it brings along. The physical, emotional, and financial toll it takes on your body and mental heath can greatly impact your sleep. One can go through fertility treatments for years with no success. Failed IUI or IVF cycles can be heartbreaking and devastating. Sleepless nights …
Waiting. Constantly waiting for medications, injections, blood tests, ultrasound scans, medical procedures…waiting to conceive. The list is endless for those undergoing IVF (in vitro fertilization). The emotional roller coaster you endure to find out if all that waiting will bless you with a miracle baby culminates with the IVF two week wait. It’s excitement, anticipation, …
With COVID-19 (coronavirus) wrecking havoc with our daily life – closing businesses and schools, canceling vacation plans, and postponing celebrations…one thing that it has also greatly affected is fertility treatments. COVID-19 and fertility treatments have been severely impacted in one way or another. With stay at home orders and only essential services operating, a lot …
Your journey to parenthood may have been easy. But for others specifically 1 in 8 people, struggle to conceive for various reasons. One thing I’ve learned over the years as my husband and I were trying to conceive is that this TTC (trying to conceive) community is continually growing and supporting each other. It is …
Women dealing with the struggles of infertility issues, will try ALL things to get pregnant. Whether or not there is any truth or science to it. From fertility teas to smoothies, countless products are advertised to desperate couples wanting to find the answer to their problems. I know I was one of them searching for …
Dealing with infertility and having to undergo IVF (in vitro fertilization) is very stressful. Nothing can truly prepare you physically, emotionally, and financially the struggles you are about to endure. IVF and meditation is how I survived the stress, anxiety, sadness, and anger of this heartbreaking journey. Research has shown that stress impacts fertility which …
1 in 8 couples suffer from infertility in the United States. Infertility affects both women and men. It does not discriminate; affects people from all walks of life. 1 in 4 experience pregnancy loss. 1 in 100 experience recurrent pregnancy loss. As a woman who experienced IVF and miscarriage – let’s shed some light on …
Infertility sees no race, ethnicity, social, or economic status. It affects 1 in 8 people trying to conceive. Women and infertility is now gaining national attention more than ever. When I was first diagnosed with infertility, I never even heard that word before. I had no idea what that would mean for my husband and …
Mental Health Matters – that has been the growing mantra the last few years to bring compassion of people’s lives to the forefront of national attention. Mental health awareness is essential. May is Mental Health Awareness Month. It highlights the issue of how important our mental health is. On the last week of April, National …