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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.

Tips for Type A Folks Going Through Infertility

If you’re a Type A planner who loves control and updating your Google calendar, welp….infertility is probably your greatest nightmare. Infertility can bring even the most buttoned up, organized, over-functioners to their knees. Danielle Hall of MyVitro shares her favorite tips for getting through infertility when you’re Type A.

How My Ectopic Pregnancies Tested My Faith

Ectopic pregnancies can be incredibly dangerous and can shake even the strongest people. In this deeply personal piece, Abi Adesina shares how she relied heavily on faith and prayer during her multiple ectopic pregnancies.

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.

The Story of You: A Book for IVF-Conceived Kiddos

If you’re an IVF parent, you might be wondering how or when to approach the topic of your little one’s “origin story.” How and when should you talk about it? When? Fellow fertility warrior Tess Kossow aims to make this conversation easier for parents and kiddos alike in her new board books written specifically for IVF-conceived kids.

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.