This is just a friendly reminder that today is the LAST day for submissions to Fertility Notes‘ give away of Cindy Margolis’ Having a Baby…When the Old-Fashioned Way Isn’t Working: Hope and Help for Everyone Facing Infertility.
Here are the details.
You have until midnight tonight (EST) to email me (polchic@hotmail.com) a little nugget – a blog you love, a little story about yourself, some suggestions for the site – winners will be announced on Monday. Just remember to give me an address where I can send the book.
And many thanks to those who have already taken my latest poll. From the …read more

A what?? Is that just a new euphemism for honeymoon? Trade show convention? Weekend in Vegas?
Nope. It’s a whole different package (as it were). One for which hotels, resorts and spas are charging up to thousands of dollars a night. And you thought infertility treatments were expensive.
I first heard of this concept when I followed a link from one of the commenters here at Fertility Notes. It took me to a secluded compound in Hawaii whose sole purpose is to get you in the mood:
KaNeCa Fertility Institute’s all-inclusive 7-day retreat provides you with the tools to realize your inherent …read more

Ick. I’m afraid so.
I can always count on my pal L. to send me links and action alerts to get me even more riled up than I already am. Here’s one that directly relates to my Blog Action Day post regarding phtalates and plastics and their nasty effects on fertility (among other things).
Among the results of this Project which strived to answer a basic question: If toxic pollution is in products, is it in us? are:
More than six billion pounds of bisphenol A (used in some plastic water and baby bottles, dental sealants, and the resin linings of metal …read more

Now, I know that I said messing with your bed space messes with your feng shui when it comes to fertility. But, honestly, after the nth day of waking up to sore backs and necks and getting angrier as we pulled the covers over our lumpy, too small, too old, too cheap mattress, hubby and I decided it was high time we bought a new bed.
And we did. And it is heavenly.
We were just out for a regular shopping trip on Saturday. In between the Wegmans and the Lowes, we walked into a new mattress store (grand opening. I had …read more

I am still fuming about this and its taken me a little while to figure out why. I think I’ve got it now.
At the very heart of this statement is an implication that a period somehow needs to be put to use or justified beyond its very existence. There is an assumption that “just” a period is somehow not good enough. Your period is more than just a symbol of your fertility. It is an integral part of a cycle that creates human life.
Dear Tampax, is that not enough for you?
Apparently not. With your new slogan you are perpetuating the …read more

Did I really see this statement/command/slogan on the TV this morning?
Oh yes.
Apparently, Tampax is out to save the world and this is their new slogan. For every overpriced piece of cotton shelved in a plastic applicator that you purchase to place in your most sacred of places, Tampax will be so kind to donate some pennies to their own Protecting Futures program which they say will provide young girls in Africa with sanitary products and help them go to school.
I am not even going to link to the Tampax site because I think this is such a load of sh*t. …read more