Support for Infertility in the Jewish Community
In honor of Passover – removing chametz from our lives and leaving the narrow places – Hasidah invited several guest bloggers to provide support for dealing with infertility during the holiday and beyond. Guest blogger Alissa Hirshfeld-Flores, is a marriage and family therapist in Santa Rosa, CA Many Jewish holidays can evoke grief for women […]
The Fifth Child #InfertilityAwareness
As part of Passover preparation – removing chametz from our lives and planning to leave the narrow places – Hasidah invited several guest bloggers to provide support for dealing with Infertility during the holiday and beyond. Dalia David is co-founder, choreographer and Education Director at Uprooted – A Jewish Communal Response to Fertility Journeys At […]
Tips and Resources for Dealing with Infertility #FertilityTips
As part of Passover preparation – removing chametz from our lives and planning to leave the narrow places – Hasidah invited several guest bloggers to provide support for dealing with Infertility during the holiday and beyond. Erin Schlozman is a licensed professional counselor specializing in women’s reproductive health at Mama Wellness Co. in Colorado In Judaism, […]
How Do You Share The Story?
As part of Passover preparation – removing chametz from our lives and planning to leave the narrow places – Hasidah invited several guest bloggers to provide support for dealing with Infertility during the holiday and beyond. Aron Wolgel is an educator and infertility veteran based in Berkeley, CA. The excitement of Pesach is upon us! […]
The Fifth Child at The Seder
Guest Blogger Julie Bindeman is a reproductive psychologist, speaker and author based in Rockville, MD One of the most familiar parts of the Passover Seder is the four sons/children. These children represent the different places in which people come to the Seder: knowing and wise; selfish (or wicked); simple (or not knowing); and the fourth […]
#BabyBenefits Are All Business
Take the one with the best benefits. My dad gave me that advice when I was faced with the enviable position of choosing which job to accept after college. The advice struck me because it was not on my radar at all. It didn’t influence me much at the time, but it did in the […]
Fertility Care is Good Policy
Hurray for companies that are realizing support for family building is good for business! It’s quite an interesting position financially, socially, and economically for a business to show that supporting family creation is something worthwhile. The JewishStork has supported people who have chosen jobs and kept jobs because of access to insured fertility care. It […]
Reproductive Healthcare, Baby Guarantee or Roulette?
Many clinics are moving towards shared risk or money back programs for IVF. This approach is being used for couples or individuals who are facing an infertility diagnosis and are told that their best or maybe only way to address their medical issues is through an IVF procedure that may or may not work. To […]
How to Respect When They are Not Expecting
They always talked about having children, yet three years of marriage brought no babies. She was pregnant last year, but it ended in loss. Infertility and other family building challenges are quite common yet hardly ever discussed. When these situations happen to someone you love, what can you do to help? Finding the balance of […]
Does “Femtech” Help Or Exploit?
Helping or Exploiting? A good question indeed. We have so much data, but can it really help us? How should data influence are decisions? Will we get different outcomes? Where is the link between big data statistics and actual outcomes? What about when it isn’t accurate? What will it take into account? Are we just […]