by Corey Whelan Despite my love of Halloween and the changing seasons, I dread October.  October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, also known as Corey's Procrastination Month becaue I don't want to make that call, booking my annual mammogram appointment.  About a year ago, my doctor ...

By Iris Waichler, MSW, LCSW              I did a radio show last week discussing the transition from infertility to adoption.  I was talking about the challenges of experiencing infertility and having to attend events like baby ...

by Patricia Mendell, LCSW, AFA Mental Health Advisory Council How could I now be “too pregnant”? My husband and I had discussed our IVF plan ahead of time. We would not transfer back more than two embryos, maybe even just one. Reduction was never going to be a decision that we would ...

by Iris Waichler, LCSW  I recently read a blog by actress Elisabeth Rohm.  She is known for her role as attorney Serena Southerlyn on Law and Order.  She became a mother after in vitro fertilization.  Since then she has worked to help support people experiencing infertility ...

by Jamie Schenk DeWitt I had just gotten home from an evening out with my girlfriends.  A glass of wine and some salmon and grilled vegetables later I walked into my house to a voicemail message waiting for me on the answering machine. We have one of those old school answering machines with ...

  The media has been in overdrive reporting on the life transitions of Oprah Winfrey and Maria Shriver. Oprah chose to end her 25 year reign as the queen of television.  Maria Shriver did not choose to be in the middle of a scandal caused by her husband that has blown her world ...

by Judith Kottick, LCSW  Mother’s and Father’s Day may be holidays invented by the Hallmark Card Company, but it doesn’t mean this commemoration of parenthood doesn’t still have meaning.  For many of us, the attitudes we hold toward any holiday stem from ...

By Iris Waichler, M.S.W., L.C.S.W.              In a blog I recently read the author described her “survivor’s guilt”.  She  experienced two pregnancy losses and has been trying to conceive since 2006.  ...