Left-Behindness | Infertility

Amanda Infertility Blogger

I don’t fail. It’s a standard I set for myself when I was very young. And, for the most part, it’s a standard I have maintained into adulthood. (It may not be completely healthy, but you know how those Type A’s are.) But here I am, facing what has felt like the most fundamental failure of my average, human life: infertility. [Read more...]

CDC Creates National Plan for Infertility

Mom at Last

Today the CDC’s Division on Reproductive Health announced a draft version of a white paper entitled “A National Public Health Action Plan for the Detection, Prevention, and Management of Infertility” is now available for comment. [Read more...]

Infertile Woman Gives Birth 5 Hours After She’s Declared Pregnant

pregnancy after infertility

Amanda Prentice prayed for years that she and her husband would become pregnant, but she never got to enjoy that excitement of seeing two lines appear on a pregnancy test or seeing her growing baby on an ultrasound. Instead, after struggling for four years with what she thought was infertility, one day she woke up, and there was her baby girl — the one she had unknowingly delivered — waiting for her. [Read more...]