Someone to help you fight your (infertility) battle

Photo: Guardian.co.uk

For many couples, dealing with infertility can be a confusing, expensive, and lonely process. This is one of the most trying times in your relationship with your partner.  Additionally, friends and family tend to make insensitive comments, or give unwelcome advice. You may be confused about what your options are, or how you will be able to afford treatment/ adoption.

Fertility coaches help you navigate through the difficult terrain called infertility. It is the equivalent of having a cheerleader, liaison, advocate, counselor, financial advisor, and specialist all wrapped in one.  They work with you to better understand your treatment options, treatment schedules, whether insurance will pay, even if adoption is right for you.   Fertility coaches teach you vital coping mechanisms for especially difficult days, like Mother's Day or a friend's baby shower.  Some even provide phone conferencing between other couples undergoing the same fertility treatments.  Most of all, having a fertility coach means that you won't have to go through this process alone.

For a fertility coach in San Francisco: http://www.fertilitycoaching.com/, or Online: http://www.thefertilitynurse.com/ (where the coaches are registered nurses)

To contact Lucy, email her at luycmlogan@gmail.com. To receive emails for Lucy's new articles, click the subscribe button.

See also: Stupid comments from insensitive people, Fertility options, The infertile woman's survival guide, Things nobody tells you about IVF