Lisa Rouff

Let me just warn you that the story I am about to relate will make you begin to seriously doubt my intelligence, but I am sharing it anyway in the hopes that my stupidity will not be all for naught. Remember folks, do as I say, not as I doDuring my first IVF cycle, I became acquainted with one of my...
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I was reminded recently of something that happened during the preparations for my first IVF cycle, so long ago now. The nurse was going over my schedule with me, and explained that my menstrual cycle would have to sync up with the "on" weeks for the IVF lab. "After this date," she stated with utmost...
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I hope everyone is starting off 2013 well. I apologize for not having more new posts up lately. I seem to have gotten swollowed up with the business that comes with the holidays, the end of the year, and the many viruses floating around the Chicagoland area. To jump start myself back into writing mo...
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Recently, I had occasion to listen to the famous semi-autobiographical book Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder. I hadn't read the book in over thirty years, and it was interesting to come back to it again from the perspective of an adult. As a child, I took in the Ingalls' adventure...
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By the time a person enters into infertility treatment, they have already experienced a significant loss in terms of their expectations of having a family. They have had to come to grips with the fact that they could not start their family the "normal" way, without medical intervention. However, for...
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