Next Meeting July 26th, 7 pm

Hello gals! Our next meeting will be July 26th at 7 PM. We will be meeting at the ever-yummy Pastries of Denmark (desserts and salads/sandwiches). Come and chat with all of us!

Pastries of Denmark
12613 Olive Boulevard
Creve Coeur, MO 63141

For the Big Girls and the Skinny Chicks: Woman Up

Being overweight or underweight. This one sucks ladies. Weight can be an environmental factor for infertility if it is interfering with your menstrual cycles and causing you to skip ovulation, or ovulate irregularly. Which makes sense when you think about it – bodies are pretty smart – and if they are too far to either side of the weight spectrum they tell your baby-making hormones now is NOT a good time to be pregnant, as all is NOT well. As if infertility isn’t devastating enough, we have to face the fact that our personal choices could be contributing to it. It’s a rough row to hoe gals.

Environmental Infertility: Woman Up and Make The Necessary Changes

Sometimes the results of an infertility work up provide you and your spouse with data that is actionable.  For example, some causes of infertility are purely environmental. And sometimes environmental causes are ‘possible contributing factors.’ Basically ladies, if you are struggling to conceive, don’t wishy-wash around the ‘Is it really? Is this maybe? Could it possibly be preventing…?” and DEAL.

Next Meeting: Thurs, June 21st

We will have our next meeting on Thursday evening June 21st at 7pm.  We are still deciding on the location! Please bring ideas about different posts and entries you would like to see on the blog!

Inviting Guest Bloggers

One thing that I really want to focus on with this blog is that I want it to be a forum for more voices than just mine. I am relatively new to the wholes infertility journey, and still know so very little. I know only my own situation, and little details I pick up from others when chatting...

Grateful for an Uneventful Surgery

My laparoscopy was Thursday and was a nice, short, uneventful surgery.  Which doesn't prevent me from being a total wuss about recovery.  I have an astonishingly low pain threshold. The good thing is, I know this about myself (and now Richard does too) so it helps me eliminate any delusions I might get about skipping the epidural part of childbirth...lol.

Ten Steps to a Successful Semen Analysis

1. Have your semen analysis done by a fertility doctor or a fertility clinic. Busy hospitals and labs can sometimes let samples sit too long before processing them, resulting in faulty results.