Angie Best-Boss On: From the Mouths of Babes, To the Blogosphere

One of the Originals Sells Themselves

Hey Repro Med'ers - Show Us Your Twitter

You Can't Tweet That! Can You?
Now that my son is a mind-bending 10 years old, there are a lot of scenes like this in my house: Little T: "Hey, Mom, [insert twisted witticism that only a child of mine could utter here]." Big T: :::typing frantically into the nearest keyboard::: Little T: "You're not tweeting that -- are you?!" I won't bother delineating what follows. It's just ugly, we'll leave it at that. And chances are good that my social media-tized lifestyle with its frequent unveiling of my progeny's out-loud thoughts to an unknown public won't have any more negative an impact on his mental health than the rest of what I've put him through in his first decade. At any rate, he can use his college fund for therapy, i

UK Fertility Show Offers Plenty of Compassion Ops
Infertility pros from around the world descended upon London recently for what was apparently well-named The Fertility Show. I have to say, I got a kick out of reading Claudia Connell's 'undercover' piece from the MailOnline. And naturally, some readers responded with hurt and angry feelings. I didn't get the clear impression that Claudia was being insulting toward people who seek fertility treatment. Rather, it seemed that her main digs were square on the noses of the fertility industry, healthcare professionals whose lives are supported by offering (promoting?) the use of assisted reproductive technology. She even took a few swipes at psychosocial support group, More to Life, which serves

Conception Collaborators' Ears Should Ring With Voices of the Donor Egg Market
The DoubleX crowd is chewing up the question of whether or not donating your eggs is "smart" versus the stance that doing so equates to a woman selling her body. I enjoyed reading the sentiments, but I think the proposed question is worded... awkwardly? Granted, it's not much of a stretch to say that my DNA-carrying eggs are products of my body. It's reaching for a breaking point, though, when we label a woman's egg cells as "her body". My whine might seem a tad moot, or at least uninteresting, but I think the repro med pros have to maintain a bit more than a passing curiosity about the perspectives of the women who are donating their eggs, some of whom are quoted in this XXfactor piece. Th

Meanwhile... Coming Soon: Dining & Drinks in Atlanta! It's ASRM Time!
Did I really go all the way through September and half of October sans fresh blogpost?! :::the Blog Goddesses shudder::: Yes, and I'd gladly do it again for the same reasons, those being wrapped up in a (for once) pleasingly busy life away from the Blogosphere. Besides, we're all about to be inundated with the Latest, Greatest, Bestest, Most Advanced, Most Alarming, Most Contrived Reproductive Medicine News that hits the America's every year around this time... Live from Atlanta, it's the 65th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine! (Check out their count-down to the Big Event... ) So, although I feel a twinge of competitive guilt about my recent blog-silence, my s