Family Building Stories
Get real-life perspectives from our community, highlighting the many different paths a fertility and family building journey can take.
Polly’s Journey: Someone shouldn’t have to experience tragedy for things to be equal.
Director of Family Advocacy at GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD Law) and recipient of the 2024 AllPaths Advocacy Award, Polly Crozier shares her own challenging family building story, as well as her advocacy for parentage equality inclusive...
Haya’s Journey: Unexplained Infertility – So Many Variables and Unknowns
A Boston-based healthcare product strategist with a passion for social impact and community building, Haya shares her story, from unexplained infertility and loss, to pursuing fertility treatment (IUI & IVF) as a path to parenthood, culminating in a...
Walking Paths We Hadn’t Imagined
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...
Don’t Forget to Look Up
Guest post by Danielle Day, originally published on her blog Warrior by Day Therapists need a therapist. Personal trainers need a personal trainer. Coaches need a coach. Teachers need a teacher. If you ever get to a point in your life or career where you...
The Power of Narrative: Family Storytelling, Diverse Families, and Donor Conception
Featured in the AllPaths Magazine, 2024 Volume 2 By Sonja Klug In mainstream books, films, and ads there is a very dominant narrative of how families happen: Usually, a man and a woman fall in love, have children and live happily after. From a young age,...
From Patient to Patient Advocate
Featured in the AllPaths Magazine, 2024 Volume 2 By Lisa Rosenthal I feel distinctly honored and humbled at having been trusted with the serious effort of taking on the President of the Board of Directors for AllPaths Family Building. Working with Kate...
“There is no shame in walking along this path.”
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...
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...
Forever Grateful
Featured in the RNE Magazine, 2023 Volume 3 By C.C. It was just a day after my emergency hysterectomy. My husband came into my hospital room, leaned over to give me a kiss and asked how I was feeling since the surgery. After hearing about how I was doing...
A Reflection on a Year with Some of the Toughest Days
Guest Post by Kristen L. O’Neill 2023 was a year of deep pain. The kind of pain you experience when the third baby you are expecting dies in your womb. With the third loss in a row, I had to face the harsh reality that siblings for my living daughter may...
Building Military Families
Featured in the RNE Magazine, 2023 Volume 3 By Jennifer White After 24 years of active duty service in the Air Force, my husband retired recently. Of course, as any chapter in your book closes, you spend a lot of time in active introspection – and I’m no...
Friendship is Essential for Your Mental Health
Guest post by Kelly Pramberger “Some people arrive and make such a beautiful impact on your life you can barely remember what life was like without them.” -Anna Taylor My husband and I made three trips to Guatemala during our journey to become a family. In...