Lie with your feet up in the air after sex.  Have an orgasm.  Eat pineapple core. Pick up McDonald’s fries after an embryo transfer.  Wear fuzzy socks. We’ve all heard a variety of silly, unscientific fertility good luck charms. There are literally thousands of fertility superstitions out there. As someone who spent three full years trying to get pregnant, let me tell you, that stuff is elementary compared to some of the batshit crazy stuff I tried in my desperation to get pregnant. I wanted control. I wanted answers. I wanted some kind of clue...

My husband Nic and I fell in love quickly. Our relationship has always been full of spontaneity and big plans. We travel, we moved to Denver on a whim, we camp and hike, and have tons of adventures around our beloved cities of Minneapolis and Denver.  When we were ready to grow our family, we had a long “if, then” conversation, a conversation I have been overwhelmingly grateful for ever since. This conversation was a raw and honest one; “if we can’t get pregnant, then what?”  I have looked back on that discussion many times over...

Staring down the long road of infertility is massively intimidating for many reasons. First of all, there’s the whole you-have-no-control-over-your-life-and-everything-you-thought-you’d-have-and-would-come-easily-is-nowhere-to-be-found thing. Second of all, there’s basic TTC (Trying to Conceive) vocabulary, which is basically a bunch of random acronyms someone created to make things even more confusing. In many ways, infertility is its own language, and becoming fluent can take a while. As an IVF veteran, I am still in the dark when it comes to some fertility-related phrases and medical terms. Aside from an intense amount of biological and physiological information that is assumed...

Mucus. Not a particularly pretty word, is it? Certainly not the type of thing you’d want to discuss with just anyone. But alas, cervical mucus—also known as cervical fluid—is an essential indicator of where you are in your reproductive cycle. Understanding what your mucus tells you is a crucial part of decoding your fertility and identifying your fertile days if you want to get pregnant. Because remember, while sex educators taught many of us that “you can get pregnant at any time of the month,” that isn’t strictly true.   Why is cervical mucus so important? ...

Miscarriage and infertility don’t just bring on another set of medical bills and doctor's appointments. For those of us struggling to conceive, we know it also brings on a whole new set of mental, emotional, and physical traumas we may have never experienced before. In a word? It can make us straight CRAZY...and for good reason! Here are just 15 (of the many) totally valid reasons we freak out when we're trying to conceive: You call to schedule a consultation at a fertility clinic and learn the next opening is in March...of 2022.  Your period,...

Taking a pregnancy test can trigger some big feelings. Excitement. Anxiety. Fear. There’s a lot on the line when it comes to waiting for those pink lines to appear, and it’s important to make sure you are taking the test and interpreting the results properly. In this article, we’ll cover the steps to take, read and understand your pregnancy test results, plus tips to get a more accurate result.  How to Read a Pregnancy Test Most home pregnancy tests are easy-to-use, convenient, and affordable. But sometimes they can be confusing to read, especially if you are very...

Welcome to Rescripted! We’re changing the narrative around fertility and burning the word ‘normal’ when it comes to what a family is and how one comes to be. We’re rescripting fertility, together.  Receiving an infertility diagnosis is hard. Navigating through the unfamiliar system of fertility clinics, pharmacies, medication, and support, is even harder. At Rescripted, we’re giving fertility patients the holistic care platform they deserve by bringing together a vibrant and supportive community, diverse and trusted content, medication management and fulfillment tools, and much more.  If this platform is new to you, don’t worry! We’ll...

As a licensed therapist currently working as a grief counselor for hospice patients, and as someone who believes in and has sought therapy before, it took me longer than you might think to seek help for infertility. For one, I didn’t think I would be going through it for this long. I also failed to realize how time-consuming and exhausting trying to have a baby would become—a full-time job on top of my full-time job. After a long workday and then more hours Googling the difference between HSGs and SHGs, or why DHEA and DHA...

Patience has never really been my thing. When I want something, I want it now. I obsess over it. I live and breathe for it. I talk about it night and day, pace in the night plotting how I will get it. That “thing” I have been obsessing about is bringing a child into this world and this, is the story of my life, as I’ve fought to become a mom for the past four years. After two years of marriage, I decided it was time for us to go from a family of two...

Most of us grow up believing our bodies work in one very specific way when it comes to conception. We have sex. We get pregnant. We vomit in the toilet. We realize we’re pregnant. We look super pregnant and then, we have a baby nine months later. In fact, literally, all of those “truths” can be and often are wrong. There is nothing “normal” when it comes to our bodies and our journeys to and through pregnancy. However, the more we understand our individual cycles and what’s happening to our bodies when we do conceive,...