by RNE | May 2, 2023 | Advocacy
This May marks the 1-year anniversary of the signing of LD 1539, “An Act to Provide Access to Fertility Care,” making Maine the fifth (out of the six) New England states to provide residents access to the care and resources they need to grow their families. Our...
by RNE | Nov 14, 2022 | Advocacy, Announcements, Education, Events
By Catherine Tucker The recent decision by the United States Supreme Court to overturn the case of Roe v. Wade has left a lot of people wondering how fertility treatment and family building, particularly through adoption, will be impacted. This includes fertility...
by RNE | May 23, 2019 | Advocacy
By Tiffany Stratz There are so many emotions we feel through working with patients to achieve building their families. Providers and patients become very connected along this infertility path, as most of you reading this know. I wish there was a switch we could just...
by RNE | Nov 12, 2018 | Advocacy
By Kate Weldon LeBlanc Soon after Lori Berube and Ryan Gagne got engaged, they started planning to build their family. “We knew we wanted to be parents,” Lori explains. “And we didn’t want to wait.” So Lori went for a check-up with an obstetrician, rather than her...
by RNE | Mar 5, 2018 | Advocacy, Education, Events, Uncategorized
By Casey Berna, LICSW Endometriosis is a disease that impacts 1 in 10 women. Endometriosis can take 7-10 years to get diagnosed due to a striking lack of information regarding the disease in both the medical community and society at large. 40% of all women struggling...
by RNE | Apr 29, 2017 | Advocacy, Awareness, Education
By Rachelle Bernard 1 in 8. Did you know that one in eight couples deals with infertility? Did you know there is such a thing as National Infertility Awareness Week? Yeah, like you I had no idea. Why would I? I’m almost 42 years old. I have two children, 19...