Amanda Osowski 9/21/20 Amanda Osowski 9/21/20

Infertility, Fertility Treatment & your Career

If you are anything like me, the journey to parenthood isn’t what you expected. I thought the hardest part of balancing my career with growing my family would be negotiating my maternity leave. Little did I know that the journey would start years before I had a baby, and present countless obstacles between getting (and staying) pregnant, and being successful in my career.

Amanda Osowski 9/14/20 Amanda Osowski 9/14/20

Shots shots shots shots shots - [LMFAO]

When my daughter and her hopeful siblings are older, I know telling them these stories of their creation will mean so much to them, including the way that our lives changed each time. I know that I’m really proud of and grateful for the ways that we as a family have made room for Infertility, whether or not we thought it was fair or frustrating, and the ways that we fought tooth and nail to get to this moment in time. Building our family is much harder than we ever imagined, but we’re also not people who’ve ever said no to chasing our dreams.

Amanda Osowski 9/8/20 Amanda Osowski 9/8/20

Infertility & Intimacy

How TTC and Fertility Treatments can Change Everything (& what you can do about it!)

Before I started TTC…

I didn’t know that trying to have a baby, really really trying - it wasn’t all fun and games.

It didn’t necessarily mean better or more frequent sex with my partner. I didn’t know that struggling to conceive would impact our intimacy significantly. That failing to get pregnant would challenge the way we connected physically.

Amanda Osowski 8/25/20 Amanda Osowski 8/25/20

Infertility in a Pandemic

Infertility is already unpredictable

Infertility comes with so much unpredictability to start. Then you’re forced to add in these “wildly unprecedented” times, and you’re left with a literal storm of questions. Of unknowns. Of silence.

When and why and how and where become whether and if and what if and even oh no.

It’s exhausting and emotional and so much to process.

Amanda Osowski 7/22/20 Amanda Osowski 7/22/20

Being Left Behind or Finding Your Tribe: Infertility in the age of Social Media

Two. Pink. Lines.

I’ve never wanted to see anything more in my life than two pink lines.

Two pink lines would mean that I’d succeeded, that I’d been triumphant, that my body did the thing I so desperately hoped, wished and worked for. Two pink lines would mean that I was pregnant. That my dream of motherhood was on its way to becoming a reality.

Amanda Osowski 7/13/20 Amanda Osowski 7/13/20

Setting up for a Newborn

Like many pregnant individuals, I began daydreaming about my daughters nursery shortly after I heard her heartbeat for the first time. I knew that we’d be moving into a new place before her arrival, so my nesting began on paper and on Pinterest!

As an prenatal and postpartum doula, I have found myself helping clients with this feat often - not just setting up or modifying their nursery space, but helping to make their home functional as new parents, and there are some things I think are really helpful to share!

Amanda Osowski 7/9/20 Amanda Osowski 7/9/20

Postpartum Support 101

So many times, when I introduce myself as a Postpartum Doula, I hear the questions “what do you do?” or “what does a postpartum doula do?” so I thought this would be a great topic for the blog today!