Tag: infertility

Fear of Injection

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B. Boyd
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shotdrugBetsy Boyd – Baltimore Fishbowl senior ed. – discovers that fertility shots really make you want…your mommy. This essay was originally published at Medium.com. It is part of an ongoing series.

“You can’t reap your harvest without first planting seeds, right?”

My Chilean fertility doctor thinks farming metaphors can help someone woefully unscientific like me understand the intricacies of ART—assisted reproductive technology, for the uninitiated.

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Sperm Donor #4282: A Love Story

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B. Boyd
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Part 1: In which Baltimore Fishbowl Senior Editor Betsy Boyd and her husband select their sperm donor.

In the last year, over the course of four IUIs (intrauterine inseminations) and one IVF (in-vitro fertilization) procedure, I have purchased millions of sperm “donated” by men whose names, ages, and places of birth remain unknown to me.

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Making Babies: One Wish

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Sheri Venema
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Starting a relationship with a younger man when you’re trying to have a child on your own as a 40-something single woman can lead to some odd moments: odd as in sit-com funny, as in strangely coincidental, as in painful.

Like the time you explain to him that you’re trying to get pregnant but then ask him to use a condom.

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