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Local councils are doing fantastic work to help secure fostering homes for children, and alternatively private fostering agencies offer guidance and support throughout the process Fostering a child is a really selfless act of kindness, and having your own children at home shows that you can provide a loving and stable environment for potential foster children. Your parental experience actually makes you an ideal candidate to foster a child, many people actually fail to take their experience into consideration if they are looking to be a foster parent. Fostering can be a really rewarding experience, so if you feel that you have the patience and supportive home that can benefit a child in need during their transition period, then definitely consider reaching out and beginning the fostering process.

Infertility affects 7.5 million women of reproductive age in the United States alone, in as many as 1 in 8 couples of reproductive age. Even though it is a medical procedure, IVF doesn’t have to be covered by insurance, except in the 15 states with infertility health insurance mandates. All told, including our insurance premiums (because we pay 100% out of pocket for our insurance premiums), we spent ~$27,000 for our single IVF cycle, where $11,000 was just in IVF procedure costs alone and not insurance premiums. I would argue that the infertility community should push for expanded insurance coverage of infertility treatments, but with the Affordable Care Act in a precarious state at the moment, I’m not really sure what we can do as a community.

Instead of criminalizing the act of abortion, personhood bills seek to codify embryos as people while legalizing the rights of the “person” created at the moment of conception, thereby making abortion a crime. As I’ve written in the past, personhood is a great big lie when it claims to be “pro-life” or “pro-family. It’s anything but pro-life or pro-family as personhood bills prevent fertility clinics from practicing IVF safely — if at all. If your representative is any one of these 23 men (as of Jan. 23), please call them and them tell that anyone who needs medical intervention like IVF to have a family — the infertility community, LGBT couples, single prospective parents

But there’s one thing I missed out on, throughout all those years of waiting and even with my diagnosis and known treatment options: the baby dancin’. I’m the kind of woman who has no problem getting all up in her own business when needed, and The Stork OTC definitely requires a hands-on approach — but far less invasive than something like an IUI and without having to resort to fertility drugs. The Stork OTC is a great first-line option if you’re having difficulty getting pregnant and I feel, compared to fertility treatments, is worth the expense. Keep The #StorkStories Going Join me on April 21st at 9pm ET for a #StorkStories Twitter Party with Fertility Planit and Rinovum for your chance to win one of three Stork OTC home conception aids!