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There is joy in suffering. Apparently, that is a message from the book of Philippians. I can't claim that's true — I am a Conservative Jew and I really can’t believe I am quoting the New… Testament. But I was having a chat with one of my favorite friends, Ali, and she repeated this verse to me, and it really resonated. Ali couldn’t be any more different than I am. She got pregnant very easily two times — and has two gorgeous girls — and she leads groups in her church… >> Read More

Television

Everything I Learned About Pregnancy I Learned On TV

Haley Longman

Spoiler alert: Pregnancy isn't always enjoyable. And I don't mean the actual nine-plus months you're growing a baby inside you — with all the back pains and swollen ankles and whatnot. (And that's… if you're lucky enough to have an easy pregnancy!) I'm also talking about the lead-up to actually being pregnant, especially when the media teaches us that getting knocked up is so easy. After all, if MTV has not one but several seasons and series about 16-year-olds who get unexpectedly knocked up and then raise their… >> Read More

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This Israeli Lawmaker Opens Up About Choosing to Be a Single Mom

Lior Zaltzman

Merav Ben Ari, 42, has one of the hardest jobs in Israel: she’s a politician! But the most important thing in her life is being a mother. She made history by becoming the first member of the… Knesset (the Israeli parliament) to ever have a baby using in-vitro fertilization, or IVF. Ben Ari, who has been very public about her journey to motherhood, says she wants to “be a model to other women, to know that they can do it and keep their career” and look for love, but be more relaxed… >> Read More

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This Amazing Jewish Mom Is Donating Her Embryos So Other Couples Can Conceive

Joanna C. Valente

You've probably heard about the recent malfunction at a fertility clinic in Cleveland. Due to a storage tank failure, some 4,000 frozen eggs and embryos have been lost at the University Hospitals… Fertility Center . In a crushing blow, the hospital notified nearly 1,000 patients that it's unlikely that any of the eggs or embryos are viable. But one Jewish mom-of-two, Niki Schaefer, who has been through fertility treatments herself, is trying to help families whose dreams of having a baby may have ended as a result of the malfunction.… >> Read More

family

When This Woman Couldn’t Get Pregnant, Her Sister Became Her Surrogate

Joanna C. Valente

There's no love like sister love. For one pair of sisters, Randi Fishman and Erin Silverman, their bond is unbreakable: the two are joined by a baby! When Maryland resident Fishman was 28 in… 2011, she received horrific news: She had breast cancer. Her diagnosis happened right after she got married and was about to start a family, crushing her pregnancy dreams. At the time, Fishman was able to her freeze her eggs and started the expensive, time-consuming process to find a surrogate. They found one and she gave… >> Read More

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