Trying to Conceive After a High-Risk Pregnancy
For some, experiencing pregnancy complications can be a traumatic event - even if you deliver a healthy, full-term baby. For others, a...
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Parijat Deshpande
120: Preparing Your Marriage for Baby with Jennifer Lagrotte
The journey to becoming a parent may bring fertility challenges, stress, and fear of the unknown. One aspect of parenthood that we don’t...
119: Parenting with Chronic Illness and Chronic Pain with Jen Hardy
It’s another one of “those things” that no one tells you. After a high-risk pregnancy, difficult delivery, or lengthy NICU stay, the...
118: Stress and Digestion with Jess Cording
Stress and anxiety can cause digestive issues for many of us, including pregnant women and women going through infertility. Let’s look at...
A Baby Does Not Heal The Wounds of Infertility
Over the many years my husband and I went through the rings of fire of primary & secondary infertility, we had the honor of meeting so...
117: What Women Need to Know About Pelvic Floor Health
We all know that the postpartum period brings challenges in physical recovery, but one issue you may not be aware of is pelvic floor...
116: Personal Experience of PPROM
Many acronyms that come along with learning the new language of infertility and high-risk pregnancy. One experience that not many go...
115: How Mindset Affects Fertility
One of the most frustrating aspects of building a family is when it takes a struggle to get pregnant. It’s especially exasperating when...
114: Partner's Role in Decreasing Postpartum Depression
We all know how challenging and traumatic a stay in the NICU can be for new parents, but NICU isn’t the most common postpartum difficulty...
113: The Health Benefits of Control
The worst advice anyone can give a woman (or couple) going through infertility, fertility treatment or a high-risk pregnancy is, "You...
112: Why "Don't Lose Hope" is Terrible Advice During Infertility, a High-Risk Pregnanc
"Don't lose hope" sounds like really supportive advice for anyone going through a difficult time in their life, right? It's positive,...
111: For the Type-A Person
There's a negative connotation placed on being Type-A. While there are more health issues that are tied to being Type-A (especially...
What to Know When Facing Infertility Before the Age of 35
Infertility has a false impression that it only affects women over the age of 35. However, fertility challenges can happen at any time....
106: When Your Body Needs You to Slow Down But You Like to Go Fast
When you're a Type-A, go-getter person who loves to be busy, it hard to accept when your body needs you to go slow. You feel...
104: Ending Avoidance
We all know avoiding important tasks isn't helpful. And yet we all do it, because, let's face it, it's easier than making that doctor's...
103: Paternal Age and Fertility
When Janet Jackson announced that she was pregnant at the age of 50, the world gasped and threw judgment in every shade at her. She was...
101: When You Got What You Wished But You're Still Angry
Ever feel angry to the point when you get a baby shower invitation or hear about a birth announcement? Feel that anger bubbling up when...
099: Toxic Chemicals and Infertility
Environmental toxins are all around us in our day to day lives. From what we eat to what we breathe to what we put on our skin and hair,...
098: Why Labels Matter
The words and labels that you use during your family-building challenges matter. They inform what important anchor points define your...
094: How to Trust the Right People During Infertility, a High-Risk Pregnancy and in the NICU
It's hard to know who to trust when you're going through a life-altering experience like infertility, high-risk pregnancy or a baby in...
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