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Katie Hurst

Katie Hurst is passionate about infertility awareness and an advocate for breastfeeding. Because of her own journey with infertility, she feels strongly about supporting women and families facing similar situations and hopes by sharing her journey, she is able to shine light where needed.

My Chemical Pregnancy

by Katie Hurst | January 12, 2023 | Fertility Blog, Katie's Journey | 0 Comments

My journey to conceive my second child is requiring more cycles with my Reproductive Endocrinologist (RE) than trying to conceive my daughter did. To date, I have had one natural cycle IUI cancelled due to lack of ovulation and three failed IUI’s. After the third IUI,...

Traveling During Treatment

by ARC Fertility | December 8, 2022 | Fertility Blog, Katie's Journey | 0 Comments

When you’re going through fertility treatments, it can feel like you need to put your entire life on hold because of the frequent doctor appointments, time-sensitive medication, and the unpredictability of protocol changes mid-cycle. It seems easier to just cancel...

Feeling Nervous About Making an Appointment with a Fertility Clinic?

by Katie Hurst | December 8, 2022 | Fertility Blog, Katie's Journey | 0 Comments

Your journey to parenthood isn’t going as you expected or planned. Maybe you’ve been trying for many months or even years without ever seeing a positive pregnancy test. Maybe you’ve endured multiple losses. Or maybe you’re in the LBGTQ community or single parent by...

Finding Support Through Infertility

by Katie Hurst | November 16, 2022 | Fertility Articles, Fertility Blog, Katie's Journey | 0 Comments

Infertility is not a journey meant to be embarked upon alone. The physical and emotional toll it takes on you feels like you’re constantly carrying a weight around with you. If you have someone or a group of people to give some of that weight to, carrying it starts to...

How I Knew I Was Ready to Become a Mom

by Katie Hurst | November 16, 2022 | Fertility Blog, Katie's Journey | 0 Comments

I have wanted to be a wife and a mother my entire life. I never once pictured my life without a husband and children of my own. I remember being in high school and wanting to fast forward to the part when my life was focused on taking care of my children. I didn’t get...

Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness — Supporting Loved Ones

by Katie Hurst | November 16, 2022 | Fertility Blog, Katie's Journey | 0 Comments

Last month was Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month, and ARC Fertility wants to highlight the importance of recognizing the women and families that have experienced loss on their TTC journeys. Losing a child at any point of gestation or age is arguably the...

Early Testing…To Test or not to Test?

by ARC Fertility | October 11, 2022 | Fertility Articles, Fertility Blog, Katie's Journey | 0 Comments

The two week wait can be excruciating for some of us. You take every little thing you feel in your body as a potential sign of a pregnancy and you’re just so anxious to find out if this cycle will be the one that works! You see these early detection pregnancy tests...

Fertility Treatments for Baby #2

by ARC Fertility | October 11, 2022 | Fertility Articles, Fertility Blog, Katie's Journey | 0 Comments

My husband and I are undergoing fertility treatments in hopes of conceiving our second child. I’ve noticed a few differences between going through treatments from our first vs. now trying for our second. There are still a lot of emotions and it’s not easy, but I don’t...

First IUI? What to Expect

by ARC Fertility | October 11, 2022 | Fertility Blog, Fertility Overview, Katie's Journey | 0 Comments

Through my fertility journey as a whole up to this point, I have done 8 medicated and monitored cycles and 5 medicated IUI’s. I remember feeling very hopeful and excited when we started our medicated and monitored cycles and even more excited about my first IUI cycle...

Getting Through the Holidays While TTC

by Katie Hurst | September 14, 2022 | Fertility Articles, Fertility Blog, Katie's Journey | 0 Comments

The holidays are painted as a time of joy and celebration and for a lot of people they are, but what if you’re not feeling joyous or like you don’t have the one thing that you actually want to be celebrating? When you’ve been struggling to try to conceive and/or are...

How to Advocate for Yourself During Treatment

by Katie Hurst | September 14, 2022 | Fertility Articles, Fertility Blog, Katie's Journey | 0 Comments

In doctors we trust! But we also need to trust ourselves and not be afraid to speak up or bring something to the table. Your doctor is seeing dozens of patients every week and while they will take copious post-visit notes in your chart, they aren’t going to personally...

Questions to Consider Asking your Fertility Doctor During your First Meeting

by Katie Hurst | September 14, 2022 | Fertility Articles, Fertility Blog, Katie's Journey | 0 Comments

Your first meeting with a fertility doctor is nerve-wracking and exciting at the same time. If you’re anything like me, I tend to get caught up in the moment and flow of conversation that I sometimes forget to ask questions I’ve been wondering about for a long time. I...

Trying for Baby #2

by Katie Hurst | August 16, 2022 | Fertility Blog, Katie's Journey | 0 Comments

When I found out that I had fertility issues in my 20s, it really threw me for a loop. I didn’t know anything about the topic at all, and I had to get up to speed as quickly as possible so that my husband and I could make the necessary choices to try to grow our...

Eating for Two: Diet is Critical During Your Fertility Journey

by Katie Hurst | August 16, 2022 | Fertility Blog, Katie's Journey | 0 Comments

When I went through the long road to having my daughter, there was a lot that was out of my control. For starters, my body simply wouldn’t allow me to get pregnant without medical intervention. As a result, I depended on a lot of other people for emotional support,...

The Financial Side of Fertility

by Katie Hurst | August 16, 2022 | Fertility Blog, Katie's Journey | 0 Comments

Aside from the physical and emotional difficulties surrounding my diagnosis of infertility in my 20s, my husband and I were also confronted with the daunting financial costs associated with seeking medical assistance to form our family. This is something that no one...

Two to Tango

by Katie Hurst | August 16, 2022 | Fertility Blog, Katie's Journey | 0 Comments

Hi! I’m Steven, Katie’s Husband. Katie has been sharing a lot about her fertility journey and our path to having our daughter, and she’s asked me to share some of my perspectives as someone who was there every step of the way. I’d like to start by saying how...

What I Wish I Knew About Fertility in My 20s

by Katie Hurst | August 16, 2022 | Fertility Blog, Katie's Journey | 0 Comments

When I was in my mid-20s, I was diagnosed with medical conditions that I knew could make it difficult for me to conceive and carry a baby to term. Not only was this emotionally difficult for me and my husband, but I quickly realized that I didn’t know anything about...

What it feels like to find out you have fertility issues

by Katie Hurst | April 25, 2022 | Fertility Articles, Fertility Blog, Katie's Journey | 0 Comments

We all have images in our heads of what infertility looks like. For many of us, it’s something that happens to other people. I didn’t think it would happen to me. I took it as a given that I would be able to conceive naturally, but that isn’t the way it happened. As...

What people want to hear, and what they don’t, when they are experiencing fertility issues

by Katie Hurst | April 21, 2022 | Fertility Articles, Fertility Blog, Katie's Journey | 0 Comments

If you have a loved one who is experiencing fertility issues, you should be aware that there are new sensitivities that weren’t there before. It can be hard to know what to say or not to say, so with that in mind, here is my guide for how to talk to your loved ones...

How fertility issues affect couples, not just individuals

by Katie Hurst | April 19, 2022 | Fertility Articles, Fertility Blog, Katie's Journey | 0 Comments

Here’s my unpopular opinion: while infertility was extremely difficult on both my husband and I as individuals, it strengthened our relationship in ways that honestly make me forever grateful for our experience. I don’t wish infertility on anyone, but it is true that...

Let’s Talk about Infertility – And Hope

April 24-30 marks National Infertility Awareness Week, an annual opportunity to highlight a topic that is often ignored and marginalized. Katie Hurst was diagnosed with fertility issues in her 20s and received treatment...