by RNE | Sep 28, 2023 | Donor Conception, Family Building Story, Footsteps for Family Building, Infertility, IVF
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 thought...
by RNE | May 16, 2023 | Adoption, ART, Donor Conception, Education, Infertility, IVF, Loss, Resources, Support, Surrogacy
Featured in the RNE Magazine, 2023 Volume 3 By: Katie Aguayo Zweifel, LICSW, PMH-C Many people facing challenges in growing their family also experience mental health difficulties as a result. Numerous studies have shown that people who are struggling with fertility...
by RNE | Mar 28, 2023 | ART, IVF
Featured in the RNE Magazine, 2022 Volume 1 By: Aaron K. Styer, MD, Board Certified Reproductive Endocrinologist and Medical Director, CCRM Boston If your fertility journey has led you to in vitro fertilization (IVF), you are probably feeling a variety of...
by RNE | Sep 2, 2018 | Donor Egg, Infertility, IVF, Medical, Options
By Dory Ziperstein, LCSW, MPH The search for an egg donor can be based on a variety of criteria: cultural or ethnic background, education, athletic, or artistic talent. Now there is a new tool for parents to search for their “perfect” match in an egg donor: facial...
by RNE | Mar 28, 2018 | Donor Egg, Education, IVF
By Lori Shandle-Fox To me, everything we need to know about getting pregnant can be summed up during this particular holiday season. Getting pregnant without assisted reproductive technology is like the Easter egg hunts I remember as a child: Sperm are like the unruly...
by RNE | Jun 5, 2017 | Adoption, ART, Education, Infertility, IVF, LGBT
By Kate Weldon LeBlanc At bedtime on my daughter’s ninth birthday, she asked me to explain how babies are made. I think it was just a coincidence that it was on her birthday, but the timing did make the conversation even more meaningful. This was the most pointed time...
