Conceiving

Adoption: What To Do After The Home Study Approval

Posted 3 weeks 1 day ago by Lori Kerrigan

Planning, Conceiving, Pregnancy, Birth, New Parents, Adoption

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Are you adopting? Have you finally completed the home study approval? Are you unsure of what to do in this time of waiting? It's time to celebrate and prepare!

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Relaxing Won’t Get You Pregnant…or Will It?

Posted 11 weeks 6 days ago by Lori Kerrigan

Planning, Conceiving

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Relax and you will get pregnant. Is it a myth or truth?

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Failed or Cancelled IUI/ IVF, Pregnancy/Child Loss? What do you do?

Posted 15 weeks 18 hours ago by Lori Kerrigan

Planning, Family Planning, Conceiving, Pregnancy, Birth, Adoption

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What do you do when the IUI/ IVF does not work or is cancelled? How do you get through a child or pregnancy loss? It had me defeated, but other women endured. Here are their stories.

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Infertility Resources

Posted 16 weeks 1 day ago by Lori Kerrigan

Planning, Conceiving, Finances, Healthcare, Diseases & Disorders

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Has your infertility diagnosis left you feeling overwhelmed and helpless? Are you unclear on where to begin? Here are four areas that will start your journey off on a successful path.

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Can Sex Be Sexy When Going Through Infertility? Yes!

Posted 16 weeks 3 days ago by Lori Kerrigan

Planning, Conceiving, Sex & Relationships

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Infertility can leave your sex life anything but sexy. If baby making has led to a lack of sexiness in your love life, don't get discouraged, sexy can come back!

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My Name is Lori and I Am Infertile: Surviving Depression Caused by Infertility

Posted 17 weeks 1 day ago by Lori Kerrigan

Conceiving, Wellness, Diseases & Disorders

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Depression caused by infertility can leave an individual feeling helpless, overwhelmed and cheated. Here is how one person not only survived depression triggered by infertility, but lives a greater life because of it.

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Gender Selection

Posted 18 weeks 8 hours ago by Fred Lee

Planning, Conceiving, Pregnancy, Birth

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That banana on top of your bowl of cereal just might hold the key to whether you have a baby boy or girl.

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Medically Induced Twins….For A Healthy Fertile Couple….What?

Posted 18 weeks 2 days ago by Lori Kerrigan

Planning, Conceiving

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Twins, they are double the love, double the joy, double the curls. But are medical treatments for a fertile, healthy couple justified if they are able to have children without medical assistance……but just really want twins…..hmm, I say no.

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Asking for the Moon

Posted 19 weeks 1 day ago by Katherine Turner

Planning, Family Planning, Conceiving

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At Microsort, they call gender selection “family balancing.” I preferred to call it “getting to shop in the pink section of Carters.” But is this dabbling with the natural balance of the sexes just the beginning of a science-fiction future fraught with designer babies?

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Sibling Rivalry or an Only Lonely? Tick Tock…

Posted 20 weeks 1 day ago by Sonja Stewart

Planning, Conceiving

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Having one is so much easier. But what do you do when you know you aren't done? On your mark...Get set...

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Infertility…The Low Cost Way

Posted 21 weeks 1 day ago by Lori Kerrigan

Conceiving, Finances, Diseases & Disorders

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Counting every penny to keep up with infertility bills? Here are tricks and tips they don't want you to know about that can drastically cut your expenses.

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Beautiful People Have More Daughters?

Posted 38 weeks 1 day ago by Carrie Kirby

Conceiving

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Don't hate me because I have more daughters than you. It's because I'm beautiful, according to a controversial new book. My magic mirror is not convinced, and neither am I.

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A Different Kind of Mother

Posted 1 year 27 weeks ago by Amy B. Scher

Conceiving

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I could have a child who is eight years old now and I wouldn't even know. Many men probably think this kind of thing all the time. Since I am a woman, I recognize it seems ironic. But I once was almost a mother, in a different sort of way.

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