b5media Theme Day – School’s Out! What are You Doing to Continue Your Sex/Fertility Education?

All of the commenters on this post agreed that yes, definitely, more information on fertility issues and infertility should be shared as part of one’s education. Perhaps in sex ed; perhaps in psychology. I even put in a vote for it as a topic to be covered in “Christian Marriage” or “Social Justice” for those condemned (er, I mean, attending) Catholic School. But there is definite consensus around the fact that we should, as Pamela Jeanne said,

“be straight about the facts so that a new generation of young men and women can be aware of their basic ability to conceive (or not)…”

Word.

But what about you? What about us? Where have you received your “education” on fertility issues? It wasn’t school. Now that “school’s out,” many of us have been forced to school ourselves on our bodies, our selves. How did you do (how are you doing) it?

For me, it was blogs. A year or so ago, there weren’t a fraction of fertility/infertility blogs out there as there are now, but they still popped up on the top of my google searches – and for that, I am so thankful. Better than any Fact Sheet or FAQ on infertility (what I was really looking for), far better than any expose of the business of donor eggs (not what I was looking to read), blogs helped me understand the processes, procedures and most importantly, what I might be in for if I decided to pursue the idea of trying to have a baby.

Now, of course, no blog can take the place of a medical professional and your own RE, but blogs are what I looked to before I even made an appointment with my RE. Gosh darn it, personal experience counts for a lot.

After I became a little further entrenched in the fertility thing, I supplemented my blog reading with books – some good, some ehhn. To learn more about how my body does (and why it might not) work.

So that’s me. Tell me, dear readers, where do you go for your sex and fertility education?