Let’s face it. Life with endometriosis is no walk in the park. It’s very painful and can be incredibly debilitating. Just living everyday life through the pain is challenging, and if you’re trying to conceive, it’s even more so. Your menstrual pains are extremely heavy and painful. Having your period and having intercourse are both… Continue reading Top Foods to Eat (and Avoid!) If You Have Endometriosis
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Your fertility journey never leaves you behind
If it doesn’t kill you, it can only make you stronger. Good old Nietzsche coming up trumps again although this well known moto can be a very difficult pill to swallow (and we know all about swallowing difficult pills!) Struggling with fertility has been the single most traumatic life experience for me to date, which… Continue reading Your fertility journey never leaves you behind
Thoughts for Valentine’s Day through IVF
Howdy, Internets! Eric here this week, and thinking about relationships, kids and family on this grey and rainy St. Valentine’s Day. Now this is a totally fraught subject, because there are probably some of you out there (and possibly one in my own house) who love the chocolates and hearts and stuffed animals and… Continue reading Thoughts for Valentine’s Day through IVF
Supplementing your fertility
Cupboards filled with half opened bottles of vitamins and supplements and jars of exotic-sounding, expensively nutritious food that you don’t really know what to do with…sound familiar? The food and supplements industry are really honing in on creating products to best support fertility and pregnancy and shelves in health food stores as well… Continue reading Supplementing your fertility
Does infertility change how we think about the future?
On a day that’s all about the future, let me say first that today’s Election-Day post will not talk about politics. But it will talk about The Future, not as in “stuff that’s happening tomorrow”, but The Future as in cue-baritone-narrator, capital T, capital F “The Future”, the big shape-of-things-to-come Future. So while this is… Continue reading Does infertility change how we think about the future?
Pre-marital Counseling
Premarital Screening and Counseling for prevalent infectious diseases and common genetic disorders is becoming more and more common and widespread today. Family physicians, reproductive biologists and Gynaecologists together play an important role early in the diagnosis of genetic disorders and therefore prevention of abnormal pregnancies or recurrent early pregnancy losses Through pre marital counseling, couples… Continue reading Pre-marital Counseling
5 Steps to Get Relief from Endometriosis
Imagine living with debilitating, chronic pain. Intensely painful periods. Painful urination and bowel movements. Pain during sexual intercourse. Pain that feels like period pain even when you’re not having your period. Pain that keeps you from being able to go out and enjoy life on a regular basis. Basically, being in excruciating pain… Continue reading 5 Steps to Get Relief from Endometriosis
If at birth you don’t succeed …
Cheers, dear readers, This past weekend, I had the great opportunity and privilege to hear the incredible and inspiring Zack Anner speak at the World Domination Summit conference in Portland, Oregon – a conference that focuses on “living a remarkable life in a conventional world”. Zach is the author of the comedic memoir If… Continue reading If at birth you don’t succeed …
The Power of Community
Cheers, dear readers, Recently, I had the pleasure of having lunch with my fantastic new friend Sarah that I met through the Global Sisterhood. We originally met back in Vancouver when six brave childfree-not-by-choice women traveled literally from around the globe to be together. Why did we do such a thing? Why did a… Continue reading The Power of Community
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