Childless After Fertility and Family Building Challenges
When contemplating the decision to stop trying to conceive/fertility treatment and pursuing considering family building through adoption, donor and/or surrogacy, the path forward can seem daunting. Explore the supports and resources that exist and hear real family stories from those who are childless after fertility and family building challenges.
Childless After Fertility and Family Building Challenges Support Group
This group is open to anyone contemplating the decision to stop trying to conceive/fertility treatment and who are not necessarily considering family building through adoption, donor and/or surrogacy. This group will be led by a childless after fertility and family building challenges peer facilitator.
This group typically meets monthly on the 3rd Monday at 7p EST.
Jennifer’s Journey: “Still a Family, Just a Family of Two.”
Jennifer Redmond shares her story of infertility, loss, and embracing life as a family of two, how her own fertility journey has influenced her personal and professional life, and reflects on the evolution she’s seen in the fertility and family building...
10 Things I Want People to Know About Remaining Childless After Infertility
Featured in the AllPaths Magazine, 2024 Volume 1 By Charlie Dice Most little girls love to play with baby dolls. I played with plastic horses. Most little girls dream of how many kids they’ll have when they grow up; what their names will be. I dreamed of...
Twenty Years, and 1,100 Shots, Later
Featured in the RNE Magazine, 2021 Volume 1 By Anne MacDonald "How are you really doing?" asked the email. It could have been about anything, but this was about infertility and self-care during the holidays, from my friend Kristen Darcy. We had been...
Happier than you think: 5 Myths about couples choosing childfree living after infertility
This blog post was written by Merle Bombardieri, LICSW Private Practice, Lexington, former Clinical Director of National RESOLVE. Author of The Baby Decision. I have found that mistaken assumptions about childfree living after infertility add to the feeling...
The Light at the End of the Tunnel
by Anna Koon from RESOLVE Spring 2009 Newsletter On the wall by my desk is a painting my husband and I purchased two years ago. It is of a man and woman standing and staring expectantly out of the canvas. They stretch towards each other, but instead of...
Accepting the Unacceptable and The Road Not Taken
These articles are from the RESOLVE New England Archives Accepting the Unacceptable: An Outcome of No Children Written by Linda Wolfson in our Spring 1993 Newsletter My husband and I tried for six years to have a child. They were hellish years filled with...
The Road Less Traveled: A Conversation on Life Beyond Children
With Keiko Zoll and Pamela Mahoney Tsigdinos As an infertility blogger, I have come across hundreds of perspectives and voices throughout the infertility experience. As anyone with infertility can tell you, everyone’s journey may share the same common themes...
A Family of Two: Moving On Without Parenting
By Jennifer A. Redmond My husband and I struggled with infertility for several years. I was going to say “on and off” for several years, but even when we weren’t “trying” there was always the hope that I might get pregnant. I have unexplained infertility —...