Fertility & Women's Health, TTC in Special Circumstances
This post was reviewed for medical accuracy by Rosalie Gunson, a Certified Registered Nurse Practitioner specializing in fertility care. If you’re in your 20’s and struggling to conceive, you may have trouble getting friends and even doctors to take your...
Advocacy, Fertility & Women's Health, TTC in Special Circumstances
This post was reviewed for medical accuracy by Rosalie Gunson, a Certified Registered Nurse Practitioner specializing in fertility care. Secondary infertility affects people who were able to have at least one child without difficulty, but are now struggling to...
Fertility & Women's Health, TTC in Special Circumstances
This post was reviewed for medical accuracy by Rosalie Gunson, a Certified Registered Nurse Practitioner specializing in fertility care. If your last pregnancy ended with a D&C, you may be wondering how long you should wait before trying again, and whether the...
Fertility & Women's Health, Fertility Treatment, Two-Week Wait & Beyond
This post was reviewed for medical accuracy by Rosalie Gunson, a Certified Registered Nurse Practitioner specializing in fertility care. Implantation bleeding is one of the early pregnancy symptoms that I didn’t know existed until I started hanging out in...
Fertility & Women's Health, TTC in Special Circumstances
This post was reviewed for medical accuracy by Rosalie Gunson, a Certified Registered Nurse Practitioner specializing in fertility care. So far my posts have focused on getting pregnant, but there’s another group of people in the infertility world who need...
Fertility & Women's Health, Fertility Treatment, Relationships
This post was reviewed for medical accuracy by Rosalie Gunson, a Certified Registered Nurse Practitioner specializing in fertility care. The stress and anxiety of infertility can swallow the rest of your life. It’s really hard to focus on your job or your...
Fertility & Women's Health, Two-Week Wait & Beyond
This post was reviewed for medical accuracy by Rosalie Gunson, a Certified Registered Nurse Practitioner specializing in fertility care. This picture is a bit of an exaggeration — you won’t literally graduate when you move on from a fertility clinic to a regular...
Fertility & Women's Health, Relationships, TTC in Special Circumstances
This post was reviewed for medical accuracy by Rosalie Gunson, a Certified Registered Nurse Practitioner specializing in fertility care. ***COVID-19 UPDATE: This post was written before the Covid-19 pandemic hit the United States. While much of this content still...
Fertility & Women's Health, Fertility Treatment
This post was reviewed for medical accuracy by Rosalie Gunson, a Certified Registered Nurse Practitioner specializing in fertility care. The endometrial lining is one of those things that most women who’ve had normal, spontaneous pregnancies probably never think...
Fertility & Women's Health, Fertility Treatment, Relationships, TTC in Special Circumstances
This post was reviewed for medical accuracy by Rosalie Gunson, a Certified Registered Nurse Practitioner specializing in fertility care. Tell someone that your IVF cycle didn’t work, and they’ll inevitably have a story about someone they know who got...
Fertility & Women's Health, TTC in Special Circumstances
This post was reviewed for medical accuracy by Rosalie Gunson, a Certified Registered Nurse Practitioner specializing in fertility care. For lots of women, the first step in the TTC journey is stopping whatever birth control method they had been using — no more...
Fertility & Women's Health, Fertility Treatment, TTC in Special Circumstances
This post was reviewed for medical accuracy by Rosalie Gunson, a Certified Registered Nurse Practitioner specializing in fertility care. When Emily Feeney went to her IVF consult, the RE looked at her weight (255 lbs) and said, “You don’t look like you weigh that...