Why an infertility coaching group for newly diagnosed infertility patients?
If you have just been diagnosed with infertility, you probably feel that life has become something terribly different.
Maybe your OB/GYN has just told you that she wants to refer you on to a fertility specialist. Maybe you have your first appointment already scheduled. Or maybe your first appointment with a reproductive endocrinologist has taken place and a battery of diagnostic tests is to be scheduled. Whatever your circumstances may be at the moment, you are entering a whole new world – the bewildering world of infertility.
Unfamiliar terminology, overwhelming tests and procedures, perplexing options and difficult choices – there is a lot to learn. Maybe the apprehension and anxiety has begun to build.
Emotionally, you may already feel spent. You never dreamed you would have difficulty having a baby. This is the kind of thing that happens to “other people”.
You may also feel alone. Nobody else you know is struggling with infertility. You feel as though you cannot talk with anybody else about this.
Receiving a diagnosis of infertility has been a blow. Your dreams may seem to have come to a screeching halt. It feels like your entering the unknown and there is no path out. “Will I ever have a baby?”
Regardless of where you are in the process.
| Regardless of where you are in the process, this coaching group is an opportunity for you to connect with other individuals and couples who are experiencing the same thing as you. This is an opportunity to interact with: |
| - A seasoned and knowledgeable fertility nurse with years of experience in the field. |
| - The experience of other couples in the same situation. |
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What you can expect in a fertility coaching group for newly diagnosed infertility patients.
This group provides an incredible opportunity to receive support – support in many different forms.
A knowledgeable and caring coach familiar with every facet of the process.
| This group will provide you a great deal of opportunity to interact with a fertility nurse coach. You will be coached by a seasoned fertility nurse who has worked with thousands of patients. She is thoroughly familiar with all the tests and procedures that you will be undergoing. She will have over 10 years of wide-ranging experience in the field of infertility. This means that she is thoroughly knowledgeable of: |
| - All the medical terminology. |
| - All the testing and procedures that you’ll face. |
| - All the options and implications that lie ahead. |
| - All the decisions that you’ll have to make. |
| She will coach with your best interests in mind. She will ask questions. She will listen well. She will share a wealth of professional knowledge. Your fertility nurse will: |
| - Answer the questions that are foremost in your mind. |
| - Help you maximize the time you have with your physician. |
| - Help you work through the roller coaster of emotions that typically accompany this process. |
| - Explore with you the options and their implications and guide you through the difficult choices that lie ahead. |
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Goals worth pursuing.
| Together, you and the fertility nurse will work toward these goals: |
| - Rise above the feeling of being completely overwhelmed. |
| - Realize a sense of hope and assurance about the testing and treatments that lie ahead. |
| - Know that you are pursuing your heart’s desire. |
| - Work as a team with your significant other as you go after fertility and have assurance that you are both on the same page. |
| - Achieve peace about your present situation and hope for the future of your family. |
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Emotional, physical and relational health.
You will receive coaching from the fertility nurse as to how to engage this journey in a healthy manner – how to achieve balance in your life.
It is true that you desire more than anything to have a baby. How do you balance this with everything else important in your life? There is a significant other that covets a healthy relationship with you. There is family and friends that desire your presence. There is still your professional life that needs attention, colleagues that wish for your time and unfinished business that relentlessly calls for you.
Yet, in all of this, there is a powerful tendency to completely immerse yourself in the pursuit of fertility to the point that all else suffers. The Fertility Nurse will coach on maintaining a healthy balance in your life – how to pursue with passion your dream of having a baby and continue to foster the other relationships in your life.
You may be experiencing many different emotions. You may be excited because you’re taking a new step. You may be experiencing a sense of loss because you were not able to get pregnant on your own. You may have much fear because of the many unknowns that lie ahead. You may be experiencing all of these emotions at once.
This is an emotionally charged time for you. The fertility nurse will help you cope with the emotions you are facing and the strain it may be putting on your relationships, particularly the relationship with your significant other.
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A strong, powerful and supportive community.
Another valuable form of support you will receive is support from others in the group. Your fellow group participants are moving through the same experiences as you. They may be at the same point or at a different point in the process. You will benefit from their support, encouragement, wisdom, challenges, ideas and responses.
Participants at different points along the journey can offer insight, dispel fears and lend guidance. They will provide you a valuable view based on the process, decisions and outcomes they’re facing.
| There is much to gain from others in the same situation as you: |
| - Feedback as to what worked well and what didn’t work so well and what could be done differently. |
| - Insight from what other physicians may have recommended to other participants. |
| - Guidance from the questions others have asked their physicians and from the ways they have engaged their health care providers. |
| - Direction from the measures others have taken to ensure they were comfortable with their treatment plan. |
| - Counsel from participants who have successfully ensured that their relationships (with spouse and/or others) haven’t broken down. |
| - Advice from others regarding what areas in their relationships were more apt to break down and why. |
The value of community at this time in your life cannot be overstated. We are not meant to engage these times in our life alone.
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Space for open communication and helpful feedback.
This coaching group provides a space to talk openly about the conflicts and feelings that are arising in this process. It is a safe place where there will be listening and empathizing ears. There will also be opportunity to receive powerful and supportive feedback, whether from patients who too know exactly the tensions you’re experiencing or from the fertility nurse who has coached many others through this same experience.
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Focused, relevant, timely support. Sound, compassionate, valuable advice.
You will have many opportunities to ask questions relating to the medical procedures that you and your spouse will encounter. The fertility nurse can answer your questions and coach you through important considerations, options and implications.
| In this group setting, you will have the opportunity to: |
| - Ask questions regarding treatments, procedures and medications; get answers and perspective. |
| - Discuss your experience and explore the impact it is having. |
| - Engage other similarly-situated couples on an intimate level. |
| - Be educated on what’s ahead in your fertility treatment process, and receive insight and direction on your path forward. |
| - Learn what to ask your healthcare providers and receive feedback on how to make the most of your time with your physician. |
| - Get input on questions to consider as you go through this process. |
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What are the logistics?
The group will comprise no more than 10 other individuals and/or couples.
We will meet by phone for 1.5 hours every other week for a 16 week period.
After your payment is received, you will be sent a phone number and pass code. Just prior to each designated group coaching time, simply call the phone number and when prompted, dial the pass code. You will then be connected to your group.
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