16th May 2013
Many women and men experiencing difficulties achieving a pregnancy have heard these words: “just relax and you will get pregnant”. The reality is that relaxing may feel like an impossible task for couples experiencing fertility problems. Being told to “just relax” when you have been trying to get pregnant, much less when you are dealing [...]
10th May 2013
My name is Grace. I’ve been reading the personal stories on this site since last year, and when my partner Cara and I started IUI treatments with donor sperm 10 months ago, I thought I’d be writing in to share the news of my pregnancy. Sadly, the story that I am sharing is a different [...]
7th May 2013
CRACKED OPEN: Liberty, Fertility and the Pursuit of High Tech Babies (Interlink – May 2013) is Miriam Zoll’s candid memoir of growing up with the unprecedented opportunities afforded by the women’s movement and new discoveries in reproductive medicine. According to Zoll, the pervasive cultural messages then and today clearly stated that, thanks to science, women [...]
26th April 2013
My name is Miriam. I am one of those women who delayed motherhood until the age of 40. I was fit and healthy, ate well and practiced yoga. I had no idea that trying to become pregnant would be so difficult. Since I was a teenager I had been bombarded by cultural and media messages [...]