Infertility

Meet Dori Gelfman: Our Community Manager

In September 2020, Dori Gelfman joined Fruitful as our Community Manager. With 15 years of experience working as a registered nurse, the last 8 in fertility, Dori loves helping people through family building challenges. Here’s what makes Dori passionate about the fertility community and why she says patients need both access to great healthcare and emotional support.

Trying to Conceive with PCOS

In the U.S. it is estimated that about 10 million women are affected by PCOS. These are big numbers for a condition that has such a profound impact on a woman’s fertility, yet the support for it is so lacking. In this piece, Lyndsey Clabby of MyMindBodyBaby shares what you need to know if you’ve been diagnosed with PCOS.

Confronting Grief While Trying to Conceive

It’s hard to understand the vastness or depth of grief if we haven’t experienced it ourselves. Before loss, grief feels abstract. Academic, even. Carrie Hauskens of Blooming with Care shares how her mindset about grief shifted after losing her daughter.

Body Image and Infertility

How has your body image changed while going through infertility? Have you been more compassionate or more critical? Elyse Ash shares a bit about her complicated relationship with her body and a few ideas for taking back control if your thoughts around your body are getting heavy.

Choosing Courage Over Comparison When TTC

Thanks to social media we have insight into so many other infertility stories. This can sometimes feel good and other times lead us to compare in unhealthy ways. In this piece, Justine Froelker shares some thoughts that can help you choose courage over comparison.

Saying No To Fertility Treatments

Everyone has their limit when it comes to dealing with infertility. And everyone’s limit looks totally differently. In this piece, Katie shares why she and her husband Nic decided to stop when it came time to pursue invasive fertility treatments like IUI and IVF, and how she feels about that decision today.

Male Factor Infertility: When Dreams Meet Reality

What do you do when your dreams of starting a family and your reality of a male factor diagnosis are diametrically opposed? How do you move forward? TJ Peyten shares how years of infertility and a male factor diagnosis forced her to grieve her old dreams, and eventually, create new ones.