Should Regular Periods Be Considered a Vital Sign?
This post was reviewed for medical accuracy by Rosalie Gunson, a Certified Registered Nurse Practitioner specializing in fertility care. Did you know that there’s an effort to get healthy menstrual cycles recognized as a fifth vital sign, especially for adolescent...
Symptom Spotting: How to Tell a BFP from PMS
This post was reviewed for medical accuracy by Rosalie Gunson, a Certified Registered Nurse Practitioner specializing in fertility care. When you’re anxiously sitting in the two-week wait, it’s easy to obsess. You find yourself Googling “early pregnancy symptoms” over...
Does Infertility Raise Your Odds of Divorce?
This post was reviewed for medical accuracy by Rosalie Gunson, a Certified Registered Nurse Practitioner specializing in fertility care. When I set out to write this post, I figured I would find evidence that couples dealing with infertility had a statistically higher...
TTC While Breastfeeding: What You Need to Know
This post was reviewed for medical accuracy by Rosalie Gunson, a Certified Registered Nurse Practitioner specializing in fertility care. Our bodies are designed to provide some natural spacing between children. That makes sense — pregnancy, childbirth, and...
Should You Drink Red Raspberry Leaf Tea When TTC?
If you’re a mama or an aspiring mama, you’ve no doubt heard the hype around red raspberry leaf tea. Supposedly it has all kinds of health benefits for women, including improving fertility and making labor easier. To hear some midwives describe it, this tea...
How to Take Provera When TTC
This post was reviewed for medical accuracy by Rosalie Gunson, a Certified Registered Nurse Practitioner specializing in fertility care. When you start any form of fertility treatment (or a new birth control prescription, for that matter), you need to begin with a...
When Do You Ovulate If You Have 45-Day Cycles?
This post was reviewed for medical accuracy by Rosalie Gunson, a Certified Registered Nurse Practitioner specializing in fertility care. Figuring out when — and if! — you ovulate is absolutely fundamental to the whole TTC effort. Without ovulation there is...
Do Transvaginal Ultrasounds Hurt?
This post was reviewed for medical accuracy by Rosalie Gunson, a Certified Registered Nurse Practitioner specializing in fertility care. Soon after I found out I was pregnant, a friend made a point of warning me about the first ultrasound. “It will be internal, just...Welcome to Fertility Harbor!
I’m Jenn! Here I am with my beautiful twin boys. My pregnancy was possible thanks to fertility treatment for PCOS.
I started this site to support other women navigating the complex and often discouraging world of infertility.
I’ve teamed up with the amazing Rosalie Gunson, CRNP, to ensure that all my posts are accurate and up to date from a medical perspective.
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