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Hold on to your Heart

While on the infertility journey, you have two main objectives. Obviously getting pregnant is the primary goal, but the other is the vital task of holding on to your heart. Nothing pulls at your heart like the stress of chasing that elusive dream of having a family. Further, nothing challenges a marriage like enduring the continued disappointment and struggle inherent in fertility treatment. Safeguarding your emotional well being, your sense of self and your ultimately your heart is the most important goal while on this journey. This is not an easy task, however it is an extremely vital aspect of the journey

Couples tend to not embrace the importance of this task until it's urgency is directly in front of them. Active communication and emotional support are components to the goal of holding on to your emotional well being. You must recognize the potential danger of this loss in order to take preventative steps to combat the process. Making your heart a priority is a key to ultimately safeguarding it from the potential damage that fertility treatment can inflict. This can best be achieved by proactive techniques.

• Make time for your partner to do something special
• Make time for you every day to focus on mind / body skilss (meditation, relaxation techniques, etc.)
• Keep a journal of your thoughts and beliefs and share with your partner
• Join a support group
• Practice active listening with your partner
• Explore alternate ways of becoming a parent. (This just opens the door to options)
• Take care of your physical self, this always strengthens the emotional and spiritual self.
• Explore healthy diet, avoid caffeine and begin a gentle excersise regime

For more information and specific reccomendations, vist my website:http://www.MyInfertilityResources.com

Updated Website

I am very excited to announce that my website has been updated and gone live. Now you can review physician recommended nutritional supplements, watch a portion of my ASRM award winning video and read the relationship action book. Dealing with fertility issues is challenging to say the least, however, we have tools to help you. Visit the new site and offer your suggestions.

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The Journey to you... Adoption gift

Fourteen years ago I was so worried that I would never become a mother. We endured many fertility treatments and had consulted with numerous physicians. I had feelings of inadequacy and felt as if I had failed as a wife. Having a child had become the most important thing in my world. We faced disappointment month after month and cycle after cycle. The details had been so vivid and alive for years, the journey was long and painful. I held on to the belief that someday, I would be a mother. My journey brought me to you...

The decision to adopt was a real miracle in my life. In the end it didn't matter if you had my DNA, it only mattered that you originated from deep within my heart and within my dreams. Being your mom has been the greatest gift I have ever received. I thank your birth mom for having the love for you to choose life and place you in our care. I know you are the child I was always meant to have. I love you.

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Self Nurture while on the journey... it's vital.

Suggestions for self nurturing when you are undergoing treatment for infertility.


• Find an activity that relaxes you: knitting, downloading music, reading, etc. Make time for this everyday.

• Plan an excersise routine. Even if it’s just walking around your neighborhood. Consider joining a gym with a friend. Planning to do excersise with a friend make the likelihood that you will continue to go more after the first week probable.

• Cut down on caffine.

• Watch a comedy.

• Write a letter to an old friend.

• Write your thoughts down in a journal.

• Join a support group. There are often free support groups available to individuals and couples going through fertility treatment.

• Plan a long weekend away, even if you only travel 30min. away, this can be a “real get away”

Women often don’t take the time to self nurture, rather we are often focused on the needs of those around us. Remember that one key to survivng the infertility journey is taking control of the things that you can. This list of suggestions is something you can control.

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Control Freak?

I never thought of myself as a control freak, rather I just have always had expectations about the way my life was suppose to be. You know.... graduatate high school, go to college, fall in love, get a career, marry prince charming and have a baby. I didn't think of this plan a fairytale; rather I believed it was my destiney. Well, 90% went as planned, but the baby thing was my unexpected hurdle. Dealing with infertility was something unexpected and extremely damaging to my self esteem and sense of stability. I guess you learn that nothing is a guarntee in life and plans are often changed or difficult to achieve. So much about coping with infertility was about being out of control of me. I found comfort in the serenity prayer:

Grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change,

The courage to change the things that I can,

And the wisdom to know the difference.

Find a way to control what you can in your situation (nutrition, physician, treatment cycles, reading material and support system)