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Failed IVF, Infertility Taboo Unplugged

Posted on April 22, 2019November 27, 2019 by Pamela Tsigdinos

Failed IVF and the taboo of infertility stories don’t often take center stage. That is until Anything You Lose documentary filmmaker Irina Vodar decided to tackle the taboo head on. Irina kicked off a new video series, Infertility Tales, to shed light on this complex topic. You can learn more, watch and subscribe from Episode 1…

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Unspoken Reproductive Medicine Reality: Facing Life Without Children When It Isn’t by Choice

Posted on June 8, 2016June 10, 2016 by Pamela Tsigdinos

Eight years ago this week I emerged from obscurity because of faulty reproductive organs and the failure of reproductive medicine. My introduction onto the world stage for a prolonged, painful ‘unexplained’ infertility experience came with a fair amount of hyperventilating. It was, in a word, terrifying.  As I wrote in Finally Heard, the ebook followup…

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Did the Fertility Industry Underwrite Latest IVF Study?

Posted on December 31, 2015January 28, 2016 by Pamela Tsigdinos

A new IVF study caught my attention just before powering down for Christmas. As much as I wanted to coast into the holidays and give my blog a rest, I couldn’t get this headline in The New York Times out of my head: With In Vitro Fertilization, Persistence Pays Off ‘Pays off’ that’s a nice…

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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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