During the course of fertility treatment, many patients experience burnout and emotional exhaustion. However, according to Dr. Alice Domar, Ph.D., Executive Director of the Domar Centre for Mind/Body Health, if patients stay in treatment longer, they have a much better chance of getting pregnant. Numerous studies that characterize chances to conceive underscore this fact: namely, […]

By: Erica Berman, PhD You were dealing with the challenges of working and trying to prepare for your next fertility treatment. Then COVID-19 hit. How can you cope? Some of the aspects of infertility that make it so overwhelming – lack of control, long wait periods, and uncertainty – are also what make living through

By: Amira Posner, BSW, MSW, RSW If you’re struggling with infertility, you’re no stranger to uncertainty, and now with the COVID-19 pandemic, we meet with it again. My suggestion is to try to become friends with uncertainty. The first thing that can help is acceptance: Bringing acceptance to the difficult situation and to the fact