by AllPaths Family Building | Sep 18, 2024 | Family Building Story, Footsteps for Family Building, Infertility, IVF, Loss
Guest Post by Molly D, Footsteps for Family Building Committee Member Last year, on the day before my first Footsteps for Family Building Walk, I drove to Boston at 6:30 on a Saturday morning for a pregnancy test. It was my fifth such test in a week. I’d had a frozen...
by AllPaths Family Building | Aug 14, 2024 | Family Building Story, Fertility Treatment, Footsteps for Family Building, IVF
Guest Post by Dana Solomon, AllPaths Board Member In the summer of 2019, at age 30, I was shocked to sit in the office of a Reproductive Endocrinologist and be told I should pursue IVF to start our family. I couldn’t believe this was “happening to me.” I felt so...
by AllPaths Family Building | May 26, 2024 | Advocacy, Fertility Treatment, IVF
Featured in the AllPaths Magazine, 2024 Volume 1 By Thea Burke In December of 2020, a patient at the Center for Reproductive Medicine in Alabama walked into the cryogenic freezer, opened a cryotank and dropped embryos on the floor after burning his hand on the...
by AllPaths Family Building | Sep 28, 2023 | Donor Conception, Family Building Story, Footsteps for Family Building, Infertility, IVF
Guest Post by a member of the 2023 Footsteps for Family Building Walk Committee The hardest battles are given to the strongest soldiers. A story I’ve never fully told publicly even to some of our closest family members, started with our wish for a baby. We thought...
by AllPaths Family Building | Jul 28, 2023 | Fertility Treatment, IVF
Featured in the Magazine, 2022 Volume 2 By: Stephanie Wissig In medical terms, in-vitro fertilization (IVF) is an elective procedure. I know. You’re probably thinking, “Excuse me? There is nothing elective about this experience.” True. But, in medicine, the term...
by AllPaths Family Building | Mar 28, 2023 | ART, Fertility Treatment, IVF
Featured in the RNE Magazine, 2022 Volume 1 By: Aaron K. Styer, MD, Board Certified Reproductive Endocrinologist and Medical Director, CCRM Boston If your fertility journey has led you to in vitro fertilization (IVF), you are probably feeling a variety of...
