Lisa Rouff

I was picking up my daughter at a class the other day, when I overheard one of the other mothers talking to the school director. "Did my daughter tell you our news" she asked excitedly. It turned out that this woman was unexpectedly pregnant, after undergoing infertility treatment to conceive her ch...
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When I was in the throes of infertility treatment, I remember often reading and hearing that infertility was just a life phase, and that over time, it would resolve itself one way or the other. Life would go back to normal. Of course, this was intended to give me hope, and strength, but instead of f...
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Perhaps I'm just in a cranky mood, but I was shocked to open my January 2013 issue of Fertility and Sterility and discover an article entitled, "Attractiveness of women with rectovaginal endometriosis a case control study" Vercellini, Buggio, Somigliana, Barbara, Vigano, and Fedele. I first thought ...
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In infertility treatment, it's all too easy to focus on what's gone wrong, and on what you can't seem to do. It is harder to take a step back and see things from a broader perspective, in which it becomes clear all that you have done, and all that you have learned. Almost all of us are changed by ou...
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Many times, it seems that the pace of infertility treatment can be excruciatingly slow. First, you have to wait to get a period, then have tests done and then wait for results. Even after treatment occurs, you often must wait nine or more days to find out if it worked, and even if it did, you must w...
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