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Reproduction of the Dead and Obese Top Themes at the ASRM Conference & Voting on the Top Sperm Chotskies

Dawn — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 19:17:07 +0000

My boys were involved in scouting growing up. Younger scouts are expected to help older scouts with their Eagle projects, so over the years I’ve dropped many a kid plus friends off at various Eagle project sites. There seems to be a distinct theme to these projects, and the theme when my sons were younger was building hiking trials. I was bemoaning this lack of variety to a friend in Florida, who told me the Florida Eagle Scout theme was cleaning graveyards. I pointed out that … [visit site to read more]

Infertility Myths (#itsadiseasedamnit)

Jamie — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 13:41:10 +0000

For whatever reason, infertility is a much misunderstood disease. I’ve often pondered why. Is it because it deals with procreation and therefore is hush hush? Is it because it is invisible—no one knows whether your lack of children is by choice or illness? I’m not sure, but misunderstood it is. I frequently hear that infertility isn’t tragic or really even a disease since it can be “so easily cured by just adopting”. visit site to read more]

A Real Story of a Real Mom Through Donor Egg and Surrogacy

Dawn — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 16:23:33 +0000

I saw the article on the front page of the New York Times and sighed. The title, Meet the Twiblings, promised, in my mind ,another one of those articles focusing on the new fangledness of third party reproduction: “Gosh darn, look what they’ve done now. ” I was sure it would start tongues wagging of designer babies. Well, I was wrong. This one is worth the read. A real story of a real mom through egg … [visit site to read more]

Karma Bites: Dispatches from Rome

Dawn — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 10:40:57 +0000

Hi all. I arrived in Rome yesterday. After checking into the hotel I decided to go exploring the city. First step–find the Metro and just as important find my way back to the hotel. I’m proud to say that I did both. Unfortunately, the line to get into the Vatican museums and the Sistine Chapel started to form at 6:00 AM, so were not options for me. I decided to take in the England vs. Germany game with a rowdy group of Brits. Although I didn’t have a dog in that fight (my dog (to further the … [visit site to read more]

Airlift of Haitian Orphans & Need for Foster Families?

Dawn — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:55:20 +0000

We have been inundated with calls and emails by folks wanting to help Haitian children in some way-any way- and preferably in some concrete way. Rumors are rampant about children orphaned by the earthquake being airlifted from Haiti to the US and about the possible need for foster families for these children. I’ve seen reports in the last two days from Indiana, Florida and Pennsylvania about the possibility of mass airlifts of Haitian children. For better or worse, these airlifts and … [visit site to read more]

Technical Difficulties

Dawn — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 11:34:27 +0000

Ahh, the perils of technology. It’s like the nursery rhyme about the little girl with the curl in the middle of her forhead. When it is good, it is really really good, and when it is bad, it is horrid. Well right now–not so good. For now the hackers have won, but we are fixing the problem and will soon be back. In the meantime, enjoy some of our blogs. Also, we send out a short email update on the week’s radio show and blog topic and current happenings in adoption and infertility once a … [visit site to read more]

I Love My Family, But…

Dawn — Tue, 12 May 2009 13:01:05 +0000

I love my family. Really, I do. Most days I love being a wife and a mom, complete with all the chauffeuring, spectating, cajoling, and listening that goes along with the job description. But every once in awhile, I crave the single life. The joy of only having to worry about what I want to do, what I want to eat, where I want to go. So once a year, I escape.

Now the truth is, I’m a luxury type gal. I don’t necessarily have the money for it, but when I think of escapes, I think of … [visit site to read more]

The Art of Potty Training

Dawn — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:10:19 +0000

Sometime blog ideas just land in my lap. Such was the case this week. A couple of week’s ago I was consulting with a couple that was cautiously thinking about a second adoption. In the course of talking with them, they also asked about their son, adopted at three, who was struggling with bed wetting. He was now six and they were still up with him more nights than not. Then last week I received a FAQ about a child adopted … [visit site to read more]

The Dreaded 50 Things Post

Dawn — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 17:53:57 +0000

Right after Christmas someone emailed to ask me when I was going to do “the traditional 50 Things Blog”. I’m always on the lookout for blog topics, so I immediately emailed back to ask what is a “50 Things Blog”. Turns out, there is a “blogging tradition” (that’s an oxymoronic phrase if ever there was one considering that blogging is only a few years old) that on your 50th blog you are suppose to post 50 things about yourself. Who knew? I responded that 1) my blog was not … [visit site to read more]