Family Building Stories
Get real-life perspectives from our community, highlighting the many different paths a fertility and family building journey can take.
Walk Stories: Celebrating Hope, Community, and Growing Families
Featured in the RNE Magazine, 2022 Volume 2 featuring Heather Smidt and Brooke Hamilton With so many different ways to resolve fertility and family building struggles, we think it is important to have open conversations about all of them. That's why each...
Not a Muscle Strain After All: My Path to Diagnoses
Guest Post by a member of the Resolve New England community “Your tests look normal, so it must be a muscle strain,” said my orthopedist… as well as my physician, chiropractor, and physical therapist. I had heard this explanation for my chronic lower back...
Our Rollercoaster to Parenthood
Featured in the RNE Magazine, 2021 Volume 3 By: Shannon McNamee My husband, Shawn, and I had planned to start a family as soon as we got married. We had no idea the topsy-turvy ups and downs we would have to endure to do so! We spent our first year of...
Recurrent Pregnancy Loss, a Dance of Fear and Hope
Featured in the RNE Magazine, 2021 Volume 2 By Megan Hanson When I spoke to the team at Resolve New England about this piece, we agreed I should tell the personal side of my story rather than the story of my organization, Recurrent Pregnancy Loss Association...
Cancer and Fertility
Featured in the RNE Magazine, 2021 Volume 2 When Kristin and her husband were struggling to conceive, providers began talking about infertility and assisted reproduction. “All I could think,” she recalls, “was great, now there’s another fight, another way my...
Mommy Days
Featured in the RNE Magazine, 2021 Volume 2 By Rachel Vorkink There are so many ways to resolve fertility and family building challenges and we think it is important to have open conversations about all of them. That's why each issue of the RNE Magazine...
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...
Coming Full Circle
Featured in the RNE Magazine, 2021 Volume 1 By: Jon Frank Melanie Powers always knew she wanted to be a helper. Growing up, she dreamed of being a teacher, but fate -- and family -- stepped in. Melanie’s mother was a nurse, and being around her and seeing...
Transatlantic Family Building
Guest Post by Eloise Edington My husband and I had been married for three years before we started trying for a baby. We used to talk in depth about what they’d be called and what they’d be like. So around May 2015, when we thought ‘Right, now is the time to...
Voicing Our Truth
By Kathleen and Melanie “Everything looks good. Your scans all came back clean. You’re young and healthy so I am very optimistic.” Melanie and I started our journey to parenthood in September of 2018. Obviously, our journey included a lot more doctors and...
Coping Through the Unexpected
Coping Through the Unexpected: Cancelled Fertility Treatment During COVID-19 By Angela My husband and I have been trying to have a child since 2017. I got diagnosed with Diminished Ovarian Reserve (DOR) at the age of 30. I have a very low number and poor...
“To the early women”
by Katie C. We are the early women. The ones who sit silently at the lab for bloodwork before rush hour. The ones who wait next for ultrasounds. We follow each other in a quiet solidarity. I want to reach out — to ask, how is it for you? How are you...