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Fertility Treatment — Like Training for a Marathon

Submitted by Traci Shahan on Sun, 08/21/2011 - 18:24
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The similarities between the two

a blog by Traci Shahan, RN, WHNP-BC, Doctor of Nursing, Albrecht Women’s Care: A Center for Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, August 22, 2011

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I got suckered into training for a marathon. The story goes that I donated money to a way cool foundation that provides resources for suicidal teens. I have a soft spot for troubled adolescents, having worked with them as a counselor in a halfway house as an undergraduate student.

So right after I clicked the “Submit” button, I got a call from the director of the foundation who goaded me — guilted me? — into joining his cadre of marathon runners who take part in a race to bring awareness to and raise funds for the Second Wind Fund. I regularly do more than what I think I can, and, yes, I like to run, but 26 miles? On concrete? With eager beaver runners whom I will see only once when they pass me? But my nursey self, with her soft underbelly of wanting to help the kids, got the better of me. I consented to the marathon.

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Five Easy Tips for Your Basic Fertility Work-Up

Submitted by Traci Shahan on Tue, 02/22/2011 - 10:40
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Make the most of your time with the fertility team

a blog by Traci Shahan, RN, WHNP-BC, Doctor of Nursing, Albrecht Women’s Care: A Center for Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility February 23, 2011

Approximately half the time, infertility is due to male factor and half the time, female factor. A basic fertility workup will investigate female hormone levels, Fallopian tubes and uterine anatomy, and investigate male factor infertility, too.

Here are five tips to help you make the most of your infertility work-up.

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    When Your Body Betrays You

    Submitted by S.I.F. on Tue, 11/09/2010 - 06:04
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    Fertility treatments may make you think you're pregnant when you're not

    a blog by S.I.F., November 9, 2010

    Infertility is like a slap in the face.

    It feels like your body telling you that it’s giving up — that it’s done, that it no longer wants to do what it’s supposed to do. What you tell it to do.

    It feels like your own body rebelling against you.

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    You Think You Have a Line

    Submitted by S.I.F. on Tue, 10/19/2010 - 06:35
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    But with infertility, the line moves

    a blog by S.I.F. October 19, 2010

    It’s a hard thing to grasp, the realization that you’re incapable of conceiving on your own. And because no one ever wants to think about it until they’re there, few have plans for how they’ll deal with infertility ahead of time. But once you adjust to a world where months become “cycles” and your reproductive endocrinologist is on speed dial, a switch is flipped — and suddenly you’re planning this out all the way to the end.

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