Finding Joy Amidst the Sorrowful
It was a typical Monday night bedtime routine. I was attempting to lead the kids through their bedtime prayers while my husband was...
It was a typical Monday night bedtime routine. I was attempting to lead the kids through their bedtime prayers while my husband was...
This is an excerpt I wrote back in December 2022: “This comes to you after a lot of tears. And I mean a lot. Phone calls, frustration,...
Let’s take a trip down memory lane, to the time of my first follow-up after attending the Creighton Model Introductory Session. This is...
On Mother’s Day and Father’s Day, the priest will often ask the mothers or fathers in the congregation to stand for a special blessing....
Before starting this blog, I want to wish you a very happy Independence Day to you and your family. As I was reflecting on what a July...
Difficult conversations are that: they are difficult. A conversation about infertility, in its reality, can be very difficult. The road...
Modern fertility treatment often uses medications designed to assist with ovulation. While these medications are helpful for many women,...
So you're finally ready to learn a method to learn more about your fertility. You're excited and also nervous. You finally receive all of...
We all know estrogen is a very important hormone when it comes to the female reproductive system. But, did you know you can have too much...
There are so many biomarkers that a FertilityCare practitioner can see on a client's chart. and sometimes it can seem impossible to...
By the grace of God, we have made it through another Lenten season. We have journeyed forty days through the desert of fasting and...
When it comes to waiting, there are very few things that compare to what can be the agony and anxiety induced by waiting. Having some end...
I sat in the gathering room at the Ronald McDonald Apartment in Ann Arbor, Michigan looking out the window. It was cold outside, the air...
We're well into Lent now, and I don't know if anyone else feels this way, but it seems to me that life always feels a little extra "hard"...
In this new age of technology and DNA testing which allows us to find out where our ancestors came from and even medical history...
Have you ever had family members who simply could not keep their noses out of your sex life? Or worse, strangers? I've heard stupid...
We've discussed healing after a miscarriage, husbands' perspectives on infertility and loss, early miscarriages, and pregnancy after a...
In recent years the MTHFR (pardon my language) gene mutation has gotten a lot of notoriety in the fertility world. It turns out that...
When original sin entered the world through Adam and Eve, God told Eve: "I will intensify the pangs of your childbearing; in pain shall...
Infertility is not only something which hurts the hearts of women as they struggle to get pregnant or carry a pregnancy to full term. The...