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  Pondering About What We, As Women, Don’t Know

  07.26.10 | Permalink | Comment?

   
  As professionals involved in the field of fertility, we often hear our clients say, “I just didn’t know”. They didn’t know about the age at which fertility begins to decline, they didn’t know how expensive advanced fertility treatments can cost, they didn’t know how difficult it can be to adopt, they just didn’t know how […]

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  RESOLVE announces both a Short-Film Competition and a local book event: Love and Infertility. You are invited to participate in both!

  06.27.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  Sometimes, with all of the focus and commitment and determination that is required of family building efforts, we lose the perspective that our journey is worth sharing and that the experiences of others struggling with infertility just may have something to offer the next Intended Parent…..and sometimes, we just need to have a little fun with this […]

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  $35,000. Donors Do Not Buy Family Building Success

  01.24.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  In the January 25th edition of The Boston Herald, a side-bar to two articles for which I was interviewed discusses a West Coast couple advertising at MIT for a donor and offering her a compensation of $35,000.00. I am not sure where to begin my commentary on this couple’s determination to recruit a “genius Asian egg […]

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  Let’s get connected!

  10.26.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  For the many of you that are on Facebook, you may be happy to know that Prospective Families now has its own Facebook page. Our page has feeds directly from our blog, videos, news, and events. If you are on Facebook you can become a fan and stay connected. If you are not on Facebook, […]

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  As licensed professionals, are we meeting our obligation to educate?

  10.22.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Are we meeting the needs of patients/clients to comprehensively educate or is their a void w/in which uncredentialed service providers (i.e. Independent Infertility Consultants) are now marketing (and charging for) services we, as licensed professionals should be providing?
  As a long-term patient advocate (beginning my career in infertility working on complex legislative matters regarding insurance coverage for […]

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  But who would share their fertility?

  03.11.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Today, like many days, my voice-mailbox is full, my calendar booked, my e-mail refreshes frequently with requests from women, men and couples faced with significant infertility. They contact me hoping for my assistance to identify, for them, a healthy fertile woman willing to share her fertility to assist them in successful family building. They are […]