Last summer, I tried to uncover some evidence by looking at virtually every fertility clinics' website to see what these websites say about the cultural norms present in the fertility industry. Despite going into the project knowing the concerns of other scholars, I was surprised by what we found.

There's a reason that the desire to have children is so strong. It's got everything to do with perpetuation of the species, in the long term, and perp...

Lots of us look forward to spending time with family around the holidays, but for those coping with infertility, the celebrating a child-centric holid...

This process has forced me to confront my lingering self-doubts: 'What's wrong with me? I'm a loser for being 37 and childless and alone.'

I've been feeling simultaneously empowered, a bit fearful, and saddened by the egg freezing process. I want to do this because it is one way in which I can take control of a situation that is otherwise in the hands of fate.

This morning, a FedEx box arrived containing $3,300 worth of medications. And so begins the process of freezing (hopefully without scrambling) my eggs.

For most childless couples, in vitro fertilization is an effective but prohibitively expensive road to motherhood that dangles tantalizingly out of re...

As my friend relayed the latest fertility news Friday, I held my phone against my shoulder so I could massage the sympathy pains out of my ovaries. "We need to do it at 9:00 so you can leave at like what, a quarter to?"

As women face the ticking of their biological clocks, they may turn to donor eggs or donor sperm to help them have children. For women (and men) in Washington State, the fertility industry is about to be transformed.