Kim Kardashian West has spoken before about her experience having her two youngest children via surrogate. In a 2017 interview, she called the process R

Welcome to Refinery29’s Fertility Diaries, where people chronicle their joyous, painful, and sometimes complicated paths to parenthood. History: My husba

Welcome to Refinery29’s Fertility Diaries, where people chronicle their joyous, painful, and sometimes complicated paths to parenthood. History: I’m a

Elizabeth Banks is not feeling the love when it comes to her family planning decisions. The actress, director, and all-around Hollywood powerhouse opened u

My dad was diagnosed with late stage pancreatic cancer in 2015, and in the summer of 2018, after a miraculous three years of treatments, surgeries, remissi

After Jordan Valley, 30, miscarried twice, she decided she wanted to get informed about her fertility status. After spending one year and $4,000 on testing

Welcome to Refinery29’s Fertility Diaries, where people chronicle their joyous, painful, and sometimes complicated paths to parenthood. History: I just t

Welcome to Refinery29’s Fertility Diaries, where people chronicle their joyous, painful, and sometimes complicated paths to parenthood. History: Two Mond

Anne Hathaway wants to get real about fertility. Hathaway, who earlier this week revealed that she is expecting her second child, knows it’s anything but

The View co-host Meghan McCain opened up about the miscarriage she recently suffered in a new op-ed with The New York Times, calling the experience “horr

In 2010, Paul Flynn, 47, learned that he couldn’t have a biological child because he couldn’t produce sperm. He’s not alone. Although fertility is of

Infertility. Geriatric pregnancy. Spontaneous abortion. Incompetent cervix. These are the words and phrases that those struggling to conceive often hear fr

I went off birth control pills a month before I turned 30. I was healthy and so was my partner, and I naively expected I’d be a mom by the time I was 31.

If you're someone who has a uterus, then you might feel like you have it all figured out: you know why it bleeds, how it holds a baby, and what it

It's no secret that reproductive assistance is prohibitively expensive. Take in-vitro fertilization (IVF), for example: The average cost of one IVF cy

Kate Durkin froze her eggs for the same reasons so many women freeze their eggs: she found herself single and about to turn 35. Her friends were having kid

In April 2014, Christina Hendricks made a casual remark during an interview with Health magazine. In between questions about whether she likes to cook (yes

Shay Mitchell bid farewell to 2018 with a series of photos on Instagram from her year. But, it wasn’t without its hardships. For the first time, Mitchell