Fertility and Getting Pregnant
Celebrating a Decade of Empowerment and Resilience: Lessons from Coaching Single Moms by Choice
Celebrating a Decade of Empowerment and Resilience: Lessons from Coaching Single Moms by Choice This year, as I reflected on the past decade of raising my son Aiden as a Single Mom by Choice (SMC), a parallel milestone emerged that has significantly shaped my professional and personal life. Around the same time that I began…
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A Decade of Love, and Laughter: Lessons from 10 Years as a Single Mom By Choice
A Decade of Love, Laughter, and Lessons: Celebrating 10 Years as an SMC What are the lessons from 10 years as a single mother by choice? As I sit down to reflect, I’m amazed that it’s already been a decade since I gave birth to Aiden. It feels like just yesterday I was navigating the…
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Why Women Don’t Regret Using An Egg Donor
Why Women Don’t Regret Using An Egg Donor In the realm of fertility treatments, egg donation is often considered a game-changer, offering hope and possibilities to women who dream of becoming mothers. But at first, it can feel overwhelming, maybe even tragic. But I’m here to tell you that I have never met a woman…
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Choosing a Fertility Clinic as a Single Mom by Choice
How to Choose a Fertility Clinic as a Single Mom by Choice: A Comprehensive Guide For single moms by choice, embarking on the fertility journey is a monumental decision, and choosing a fertility clinic as a single mom by choice can be a stressful and confusing part of that process. How do you know what…
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Commit to a Mantra, Not A Resolution
Calling Forward The Qualities You Want To Use To Approach Your 2021 Vision As we emerge into 2021, many of us will be looking at what we want to cultivate, center around, and call forward in 2021. For many that means setting New Year’s Resolutions…right? Well, the thing about resolutions is that they often carry…
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Coping With Hope And Despair When TTC
When you are trying to conceive (TTC) it’s hard to manage the constant cycle of hope and despair. You want to stay positive while trying but then it’s crushing when you get a negative. It’s easy to get deflated, lose energy to keep going or simply feel tender and hurt. The ups and downs are…
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Mindset Shifts–How To Make Difficult Choices (Like Becoming A Single Mom By Choice) Feel Positive
Mindset Shifts–How To Make Difficult Choices (Like Becoming A Single Mother by Choice) Feel Positive Do you ever wish you could shift your mindset and make becoming a single mom by choice feel like an empowered choice? When I talk to many women who are trying to decide whether to take the leap to single…
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How to Pick a Sperm Donor
If you’ve decided to move forward as a single mom by choice, a lesbian couple or otherwise in need of a sperm donor, there comes a time when you need to pick a sperm donor. For most people they’ve never done anything like it. You’re choosing the person to provide half the genetic material for…
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Preparing to Visit A Fertility Doctor
So, you think you want to be a single mom via sperm donation, and you’ve made an appointment to see a Reproductive Endocrinologist or fertility doctor. You may have waited months to see this doctor so you want to be as prepared as possible for the appointment. The first step is getting clear about your…
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My Infertility Story — How I Got The Baby I Was Meant To Have
It’s National Infertility Awareness Week. Here’s my infertility story and how I became a mother via egg donation. #NIAW #ListenUp Throughout my life I was led to believe it was no big deal to conceive a baby in my forties. Back then, when people asked me (as they so often do ask women in their…
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