It happens every 23-30 days. The dreaded period. You worked so hard this month. You ate the right stuff, you reduced your intake of everything fun, you even ...

When Platitudes Fall Flat You've all heard a platitude. They are words that are intended to be helpful, but do not usually help. (The work platitude comes fr...

Learning to take care of yourself while trying to conceive will lay the groundwork for taking care of yourself when you're finally a par

A Diet Hack for Fertility I'm not usually one for diet hacks of any kind, but when I read this blogpost from Creating a Family I knew I had to share it. So o...

Do What Works You're here again. At that milestone that was once way out into the future when you thought for sure you'd be pregnant. Maybe it's a significan...

Coping with Infertility as a Stepparent Creating a family certainly doesn't always go the way people expect it will. Some people are lucky to find each other...

Envisioning Fertility Success Like a good Ashevillian I was mountain biking this weekend. I’m newish to the sport and was becoming aware of the process of my...

Facebook is Ruining Your Life It’s happening on a daily basis now. You open up Facebook and see your friend from high school with her precious family of 4. T...

Tired of Driving to the Fertility Clinic There are roughly 1,028 fertility clinics in the United States. That’s great news if you live in a city with one. Bu...

When To Switch From Your Gynecologist to a Fertility Clinic When women begin thinking about starting a family, it is exciting and scary at first. They might ...

Infertility is Officially a Disease I was excited to read this article last week that reports the American Medical Association supporting the World Health Or...

Insurance Coverage for Infertility Expanded in New Jersey On May 1, 2017, the New Jersey Governor Chris Christie signed a law that improves and expands infer...

Infertility Awareness Week - Zoom Out, There's More to Life Than Trying To Conceive It's Infertility Awareness week again, and this post is for all of you wh...

Your Sleep is Affecting Your Fertility Recently, an article in Current Sleep Medicine Reports was published citing research that sleep and fertility are clos...

Just Relax! Your Best Friend’s Famous Last Words You’ve heard it everywhere. Sometimes the unsolicited advice is also accompanied by a story of someone’s fri...

Surviving The Two Week Wait You’ve done everything you can do for this cycle. The day of ovulation or the embryo transfer has passed, and there’s nothing to ...

Secondary Infertility Every Saturday I take my three year old to her soccer game and see dozens of happy parents. I don’t know what kind of struggle it took ...

How to Tell a Friend with Infertility that You're Pregnant During my struggle with infertility I had three good friends that became even greater friends beca...

A failed IVF is devastating. When I see women in my Asheville counseling practice after a failed IVF they feel aimless and hopeless. The sadness and disappoi...

When Your Medical Professional Is Pregnant Your medical professional is pregnant. You’re doing everything you can to get the help you need to conceive, and w...