Family Building Stories
Get real-life perspectives from our community, highlighting the many different paths a fertility and family building journey can take.
You Are Here
By Nicole “You are here”. My yoga instructor spoke these three simple words in my first class back after my third (out of four) miscarriage. As we worked to quiet our minds and control our breath, she continued to repeat these words. “You are here”. I didn’t...
It’s a Marathon, Not a Sprint
By Natascia Armitage Here in Boston, Marathon Monday is one of the most exciting days of the year. The energy that can be felt all day long is electrifying. This Monday, 2 years after a successful frozen embryo transfer (FET), which resulted in my...
From Adversity to Advocacy
By Kate Weldon LeBlanc Soon after Lori Berube and Ryan Gagne got engaged, they started planning to build their family. “We knew we wanted to be parents,” Lori explains. “And we didn’t want to wait.” So Lori went for a check-up with an obstetrician, rather...
IVF: Not Your Typical Egg Hunt
By Lori Shandle-Fox To me, everything we need to know about getting pregnant can be summed up during this particular holiday season. Getting pregnant without assisted reproductive technology is like the Easter egg hunts I remember as a child: Sperm are like...
Connecting in Real Life
By Heidi Gordon Four years ago, my journey to parenthood was at a crossroads. I had married at 36 and began trying to conceive straight away. After 6 months and no success, it was off to our first Reproductive Endocrinologist (RE) and the start of many...
Wait for Me
By Amanda Grazioli “Mommy, mommy! Wait for me.” A tiny little girl, all pigtails and dimples, blows by me and breaks me from my concentration. She runs up to her mom and grabs her hand. I’m sitting at a tiny garden table at a botanic garden, typing at my...
Lucky Charms – Superstition and Infertility
By Vivian Samson As we near Saint Patrick’s Day, it seems that everywhere you turn, you see leprechauns, pots of gold and four-leaf clovers. People swear by the “Luck of the Irish” and it is also considered lucky to kiss someone Irish. We don’t stop to think...
Why I Walk
By Kirsten Reitter DeSorbo A few days following our second miscarriage, my family and I walked down to our local coffee shop to enjoy a Sunday morning treat. I had just spent the past few days doing my best to parent our 2 ½ year-old daughter when all I...
Find your people
By Kristen Sabelis Last November, I attended the RESOLVE New England (RNE) annual conference as a parent panel member. At the conference, Kate Weldon LeBlanc, RNE Executive Director, talked about the importance of finding your people. Whoever those people...
Honoring My Grief
By: Laura LaCascia-Ehlert I have been silently grieving for ten months. It started when IVF did not work out in our favor. That was the day my grief started, but it wasn’t until months later that I became aware I was grieving. I wondered during those months...
Our Story: The Reward is Worth the Wait
By Matt Krawczyk It was around 2pm when I listened to the message on my cell phone. After taking a few minutes to gather my thoughts, I messaged my wife Vanessa to tell her that I was leaving the office early, and then I quietly packed up my things...
One and Never(?) Done
By Lindsay Euller Linsley I would first like to start by saying that I’m so fortunate to have a beautiful 3-year-old son, conceived through IVF (ICSI). My husband John and I tried for 4 years before we were lucky enough to have Grey. And I’m very sensitive...