Family Building Stories
Get real-life perspectives from our community, highlighting the many different paths a fertility and family building journey can take.
Infertility: A Journey of Love, Joy, Hardship, and Heartbreak
By Camille Preston Camille is promoting infertility awareness through a TEDx talk she did on infertility. Her goal is to support women on the journey by raising awareness and visibility. The talk is a fertility 101 and it is about pursing your dreams beyond...
The Fertility Rollercoaster: Bringing Our Dreams to Fruition
By anonymous My partner and I decided we wanted to have a family a long time ago. By the time we made the decision to get started, we had already been together for over ten years. I think after you have been together with someone for at least ten years,...
Do We Deserve Another IVF Attempt?
By Susan Manning Tink, tink, tink... My nail taps the vial of the trigger shot before I inject it into my wife’s abdomen. The bubbles of air atop the medicine seem to mock the bubbles of anxiety in my stomach. Or maybe they’re bubbles of guilt? Of wonder? Of...
My New “Normal” – Parenting after Infertility
By Lisa Reichmann When my husband and I were in the midst of our struggles with infertility, I longed for the day that things would go back to “normal”: the day I could spend time with my friends who had babies, the day I could be genuinely happy when...
A Parent Panelist Shares Her Egg Donation Story
By Anonymous It was powerful to be back in the same room. A few months ago I spoke for the first time as a parent at a RESOLVE New England (RNE) event on using an Egg Donor. It was the same space where I had sat four years earlier, but I was in a very...
Coping as a Couple During the Holidays
By Beth and Carl Smith Here’s something you should never, ever, ever do. On Christmas morning. In a house full of relatives. Don’t present your mother-in-law with a “Save the Date” card inscribed with a date eight months in the future. “The day,” you...
Balancing Your Emotions Throughout the Day: Schedule Lamenting Time
By Kristen Magnacca, noted author, coach, motivational speaker, and expert on the emotional aspects of infertility. Her book Love and Infertility: Survival Strategies for Balancing, Infertility, Marriage, and Life (from which this article is excerpted) was...
Which Path to Choose? One Woman’s Story
Are you facing a crossroads about what family building path to take? One woman shares her story of decision-making. "You are not a candidate for IVF..." I had not prepared myself to hear those words or be faced with the decision: egg donation, adoption, or...
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...
I Believe in RNE: Carrie’s Story
By Carrie Redi, RESOLVE New England Peer Leader and 2012 Volunteer of the Year About 7 years ago, I learned about RESOLVE New England (RNE) through a friend after I shared that I was going to begin infertility treatments. I was newly married, had just...
I Believe in RNE: Erin’s Story
By Erin Lasker, Executive Director As 2012 draws to a close, I look back at this year and am so proud of our many accomplishments as an organization. Sometimes it amazes me when I stop and consider everything RESOLVE New England has accomplished this...
Coping with Infertility, Loss and Winter Holidays
by Beth Panella The holidays are difficult for anyone going through infertility. You may see family and friends you don’t see throughout the year and all they want to know is when you are going to have a baby. They might not know that you have been...