New Moon Fertility

"I know women who are grateful for their pumpsgrateful that someone else can help with the feeding, grateful that they can go back to work and keep feeding their kid the way they want, grateful that the pump allows them to quantify just how amazing their milk-producing bodies are. But I know no one who loves it."

"girls and women in California can now drop by their neighborhood pharmacy and pick up birth control pills without a prescription from a doctor. It's not technically over-the-counter, but you can get them by talking to a pharmacist and filling out a questionnaire."

San Francisco has become the first US municipality to mandate employers offer fully paid parental leave...

"I need to know that people try for years, that they give up, that they maybe try again, that they go through hell and that they’re still going, still living a life, whether they’ve added a new person to it or not. And I need to hear this from real people not just anonymous women on message boards who use acronyms I don’t understand."

You could sign it and people paying $10k+ for a 50% chance to get pregnant would be SERIOUSLY thankful.

"Pregnancy is not from the neck down," she says, pointing to studies that show that more women suffer from mental illness during pregnancy and after pregnancy than develop gestational diabetes or pre-eclampsia, or go into preterm labor.

Here in SF too, more people trying than you might think...

Clinical trials conducted in New York using the new technique, which was developed by researchers at Oxford University, resulted in a pregnancy success rate of around 80 per cent.

Wow, she said, you waited too long to have children. Bam. I felt like I had been stabbed.

How much paid time off did you get? Or would you want to have?

"The uncertainty of infertility also girds its silencing power. The hope tightrope wobbles beneath your feet, and cuts you as you fall. Then every month you climb back up, because one time, you might make it across. Our culture likes to celebrate the idea that if you are courageous, if you try, if you endure, things will work out. I want that justice too, even now, even as I know so many times, that isn't quite how it goes." - K.K. Goldberg

A little good news to add to the mix... Uterine transplants! + More than 5 million people born via IVF since 1978!

When and how do we pause? #RoshChodesh "I had the idea of taking Rosh Chodesh (the first day of the new Hebrew month) as my monthly day to do nothing. To go with the flow. The women of Israel got Rosh Chodesh as a gift for refusing to contribute their jewels to the making of the golden calf. And I am a woman of Israel."