Infertility can make a person feel profoundly weak and powerless in the face of repeated failures, the passing years and a loss of hope for the child you so long for. Some of the events that can feel like a shot to the gut include your period arriving again, or the announcement of a pregnancy as you … [Read more...]
Discipline without Distress
This book arrived direct from the author! What a gift! Thank you! The other, more possible explanation is that my mother ordered it for me and forgot about it. Thanks Mom! The title of this book is "Discipline Without Distress:135 tools for raising caring, responsible children without time-out, … [Read more...]
Guiliana, my brother-in-law, and cancer
Sometimes I feel like for every good thing in the world that happens on one side, something bad could be happening on the other. While this incredible blessing of new life has opened up for us, other people have been dealing with some very scary problems. The found cancer in my brother in … [Read more...]
Infertility Myths
Myths: Just relax, take a vacation and be patient. The problem with busting myths is that there is often some relevant story, somewhere, that supports them. I’ve just finished reading "Trying to Conceive" (edited by Michaela Ryan) and without exception, every one of the 15 couples had to "relax" … [Read more...]
Attention Seeking Seals and Lonely Penguins / My blog picture
Hello bleeps! How are things with you? It’s been an up and down week. Up: good news: Mommy in Waiting has a positive outcome for her 4th IVF! Go and congratulate her!! Down: my dear friend from varsity got a BFN for her first IVF. She has now moved on to FET. Please send her your most … [Read more...]
Happy New Year!
Hello bleeps I hope your Christmas and New Year was super duper. Mine certainly was. There is something wonderful about just going away and getting away from it all. So good just to vegetate and read books (the fiction kind, not the non-fiction where you have to concentrate) and spend time with … [Read more...]
Four Ways to Emotionally Survive Infertility
Here are four ways to heal: suggestions to help in the emotional minefield of infertility: Dr. Joe Dispenza, DC interviewed over 170 people from around the world who had baffled their physicians by going into spontaneous remission. His curiosity about healing and the brain led him to discover … [Read more...]