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A Look Back At How We Got From There to Here in the Blogosphere

Posted on June 22, 2014December 9, 2016 by Pamela Tsigdinos

This past weeks’ events and recent reading, as if added to blender, poured forth some new insights. In the days and weeks leading up to a busy set of family festivities (June birthdays and both a niece and nephew’s high school graduations), I received several warning emails from GoDaddy informing me that my Coming2Terms blog…

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What’s This? Common Ground That Doesn’t Involve Motherhood Or Infertility

Posted on March 13, 2014December 20, 2016 by Pamela Tsigdinos

I’ve been spending less and less time in the infertility blogosphere — and for all the right reasons. With my mind no longer preoccupied or dogged by tortured emotions associated with not being in the mommy club, the messiness of healing from infertility, or the rehab-like experience of reinvention and learning to live again, I…

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Generation I.V.F. Shares Lessons Learned

Posted on November 7, 2013August 5, 2015 by Pamela Tsigdinos

We don’t get to choose when we’re born or the era in which we live, but we can decide what  lessons we leave behind for others. Author and fellow former fertility treatment patient Miriam Zoll lays out some truths associated with what it means to be a part of Generation I.V.F. in a piece  posted…

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One Small Step For Infertility Awareness, One Giant Leap For Society

Posted on September 30, 2013August 2, 2016 by Pamela Tsigdinos

My expectations for September 27 and The Cycle: Living A Taboo were very high — not only for those of us presenting at the forum, but for those who would join us. What transpired surpassed my expectations. As the evening drew near, we speakers assembled in Tribeca from Los Angeles, Silicon Valley, Spanish Harlem, Boston,…

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Teach and Learn: Lift the Veil on a Taboo

Posted on September 22, 2013June 5, 2018 by Pamela Tsigdinos

UPDATE: Hat tip to Amy McVay Abbott, the journalist who wrote Infertility: The Billion Dollar Business & the Heartbreaking Realities and Jody Day for thought-provoking perspectives on our event, The Cycle: Living A Taboo. About the importance of participating in the conversation. Jody wrote: “I get that it’s daunting to attend something where you’ll be…

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Do You Live A Taboo? I Do, Too!

Posted on August 25, 2013October 1, 2018 by Pamela Tsigdinos

UPDATE 8/27/2013: For those of you around the world who are unable to join us in person in New York City, we’ve opened up a page on our event website to share your thoughts. Please comment below and we’ll include you as virtual participants. …when a path wasn’t clear, the natural instinct was to go…

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The Wisdom of Experience and Value of Seeing the Whole Picture

Posted on July 23, 2013August 10, 2015 by Pamela Tsigdinos

Update: You can read the “The Grief of Infertility” #losschat transcript from the Twitter Chat earlier this week. The discussion is contained on Storify. Great sharing — we even had a man’s perspective. I’m not sure when I first started watching but every seven years I tune in for a viewing of a documentary series…

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Time Warp Tuesday: Advice

Posted on July 10, 2013August 14, 2018 by Pamela Tsigdinos

When was the last time you took your own advice? And I mean put your very own recommendation into action. It’s usually much easier to hand out advice than it is to act on or internalize your own, isn’t it? Advice is the theme for this month’s Time Warp Tuesday blog hop/writing exercise. This monthly activity involves…

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The Forum: What Would Make You Attend a Public Infertility Discussion?

Posted on June 24, 2013September 30, 2018 by Pamela Tsigdinos

New celebrity infertility disclosures have been popping up left and right in popular media. Starting in April there was Nia Vardolos on the interview circuit for her new book, Instant Mom. Nia, as reported in various online publications, tried for nearly a decade to have a family, going through 13 IVFs in the course of pursuing infertility treatments, and failed adoptions before…

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Time Warp Tuesday: Decisions

Posted on June 11, 2013August 15, 2014 by Pamela Tsigdinos

Most weeks come and go without much fanfare. They’re filled with work, exercise, meals, appointments, chores, gardening, a weekend hike, coffee with a friend, a movie, or cleaning out that one drawer that always seems to hold everything because you once wanted to get something off the counter. And then there are weeks like this. The week that…

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