Family Building Stories
Get real-life perspectives from our community, highlighting the many different paths a fertility and family building journey can take.
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...
Why I Walk
Guest Post by a member of the 2023 Footsteps for Family Building Walk Committee The hardest battles are given to the strongest soldiers. A story I’ve never fully told publicly even to some of our closest family members, started with our wish for a baby. We...
One
1 in 4 1 in 6 1 in 50 1 in 880 1 in 5 One is the loneliest number. Even more so when you encounter it over and over again during your family building journey. I know stats like these are supposed to make you feel less alone, but when the only number one you...
A Beautiful Life Together
Featured in the RNE Magazine, 2023 Volume 2 By Bill and Stephanie McNulty We met and began dating in March 1997, and have been happily married since May 2004. We each consider the other our best friend and have always had a beautiful life together. We wanted...
Parenthood After Cancer was Worth the Wait
Guest Post By Megan Scherer, Mom to Elliott and Co-Founder of Worth the Wait Charity When my husband was diagnosed with testicular cancer three years into our marriage, I knew life was going to change but never expected these twists and turns and the happy...
June 26th
Every year on June 26th, my enormous extended family would come together to celebrate my grandfather’s birthday. More planning and preparation went into this event than every other holiday combined. There were always a million photos taken, especially of the...