When Infertility Treatment Fails
by Kristin P.
National Infertility Awareness Week April 18 – 24, 2021 Anyone can be challenged to have a family. No matter your race, religion, sexuality or economic status, infertility does not discriminate. National...
Coping with Mother’s Day While Mourning Infertility
Can I be honest with you? I know we don’t know each other well, yet, but I have a confession. Working in the world of trauma has taught me many...
Redefining Motherhood
There are words I never thought I’d have to say in my lifetime. Words that still tend to choke me as they come out of my mouth. Words that created...
Making Tough Decisions About Remaining IVF Embryos
Having a baby did not come easy for me and my husband. We spent years in and out of procedures that all had the small promise of parenthood one day. ...
The Grain of Rice in a Cheerio
“Do you know what we’re looking for, here?” the doctor asked me kindly. “…a baby?” I ventured, so nervous that my usual smart mouth had no filter. He grinned gamely,...
When You’re Aware Something’s Not Right: PCOS Awareness Month
In high school, I once got a menstrual period so bad that I blacked out in class, got dragged to the nurse’s office by a classmate, and threw up in...
How I Met You, Baby
by Lauren Jerle
With Mother’s Day coming up, we’re taking this week to share stories from our own Twin Cities Familys Blog Contributors on how they became mothers. We all have unique stories, and some of...
The Empty Room: A Man’s Journey to IVF
After two frustrating, but transformational years trying to have a baby, my wife and I have just begun IVF. The best we’ve felt in those two years has come through...
Relax. Recover. Regroup.
by Lauren Jerle
Aside from a few weekend getaways, my husband and I have never taken an extended vacation together in the seven years we’ve been together. I am pretty content at home...
June Baby
by Lauren Jerle
Before I knew we’d struggle with infertility, I imagined a June baby. My husband and I both have June birthdays. A baby born in the same month as us sounded...
My Dog is Still My First Born
by Kristin P.
My husband and I have been blessed with one 3-year old son. And yet, in many ways, he is not quite our first-born. Not entirely. Because in some ways, that...
Dear Future Baby
by Lauren Jerle
There was recently a parody of Meghan Trainor’s Dear Future Husband. The viral video was sang by two hopeful Minnesota dads, as they anticipated the arrival of their adopted child....
9 Benefits of Infertility (Or, How a 100+ Year Old Song Turned Me Into An Optimist)
by Kristin P.
Before you fire up your fingertips to type an offended response, please know there are no real benefits of infertility. Not one. But after three miscarriages, nine rounds of treatment...
