Mental Health

Finding Your People

A practical guide to the different kinds of support available while you are trying to build a family, and how to tell which ones are actually helping.

Your Holiday Questions, Answered

Practical ideas on how to handle difficult questions that may come up this holiday season.

Preparing for the Holiday Season When You're Trying to Build a Family

A little planning now can lower your stress, protect the relationships that matter, and leave more room to enjoy the season.

The Overlooked Half: Male Mental Health in Fertility Treatment

Male factors are involved in roughly 40% of infertility cases, yet men’s mental health is the part of the process almost no one is built to notice. Here is what the research shows, and why it matters for both partners.

If Everyone Is Doing IVF, Why Does It Still Feel So Lonely?

The treatment is more common than it has ever been. The experience still is not. A companion piece for anyone spending World IVF Day quietly.

Adding Up the Unseen Costs

Money stress and treatment stress arrive together, and together they change decisions, relationships, and outcomes.

The Grief Nobody Sees

Infertility grief is real, it is recurring, and it is mostly invisible, which is exactly what makes it so hard to carry.

Working Through the Four Stages of Fertility Grief

The loss is invisible, but the grief is real. Here's what the psychology says, and what people who've been through it wish they'd known sooner.

Partner on a Different Page?

Navigating Fertility Stress When You Cope Differently

Understanding Stress, Self‐Blame and Fertility

Recognizing Fertility Burnout