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5. The Outcomes

In fertility treatment, a successful outcome is defined as a healthy baby. In this story, the outcomes are complicated for everyone involved.

Susan Burton
2024-05-08 16:27:48

4. The Clinic

What we know about what happened at the clinic.

Susan Burton
2024-05-08 16:25:37

3. The Sentence

At the nurse’s sentencing hearing, the patients learn a shocking detail that forces them to confront the limits of their compassion.

Susan Burton
2024-05-08 16:21:55

2. The Nurse

The patients know what happened to them. Now they learn who did it. The story of the nurse whose own pain was also unseen.

Susan Burton
2024-05-08 16:20:27

1. The Patients

Patients at a fertility clinic experience excruciating, unexpected pain. For months the reason for that pain remains hidden. Then they get a letter from the clinic.

Susan Burton
2024-05-08 16:16:19
A Sober Pregnancy Part Three

A Sober Pregnancy Part Three

It’s hard to believe I reconciled this self defeating strategy. I was married now and for the first time had…
My Journey to Antidepressants While Breastfeeding

My Journey to Antidepressants While Breastfeeding

By Tara Charne I remember sitting across from Dr. Catherine Birndorf, as her office was still being furnished. I was…
Expect to Expect

Expect to Expect

Trying to have a baby at 46, I went full-on warrior. My eyes on the ball. One. Good. Egg.

A Sober Pregnancy - Part I

“It takes what it takes,” they like to say in the rooms of recovery, a place I never thought I…
A Sober Pregnancy - Part II

A Sober Pregnancy - Part II

It’s hard to believe I reconciled this self defeating strategy. I was married now and for the first time had…

A Sober Pregnancy - Part III

It’s hard to believe I reconciled this self defeating strategy. I was married now and for the first time had…
A Single Dad

A Single Dad

I never planned on being single dad...I never asked to be a single dad. I was thrown into it suddenly…

Rethinking Food

To tell you the truth, during the course of writing and thinking about writing this, I have many times wished…