Informative piece about the basics of egg freezing and how to decide if this is the right decision for the reader, regardless of timing during the medical education and career continuum.

FemInEM Idea Exchange lecturer shares her personal journey with infertility including an experience with an ectopic pregnancy. She explores the feelings of inadequacy and loss that accompany infertility.

A surgeon shares her story of infertility struggle. She provides specific tips for family planning for women in surgery and those considering a surgical field. The article is relevant to women outside of surgery as well.

This 2013 article from Annals of Family Medicine that offers multiple brief anecdotal accounts from female physicians. It's a refreshing, honest, and compelling article for those pursuing motherhood later than most.

Many women historically have considered having a family a must, rather than choice due to societal or family pressures. This article is helpful for those on the fence about starting a family. It also lays the groundwork of what a good spouse should be, leading to good topics of discussion for a significant other prior to committing to marriage and children.

Dr. Arghavan Salles, FeminEM supporter and surgeon extraordinaire, gives a personal and compelling argument for trainees and early career physicians to take change of their fertility; or at least consider it.

This brief article debates the pros and cons of having children during various career points along the medical education continuum.

Despite the well-known medical risks to mothers and infants, studies on older mothers (40's) from Denmark are encouraging about the effects of parental emotional maturity (from age) on the emotional health of their offspring. Encouraging article for those who have not yet started a family or are unsure of taking this next step.

The Atlantic has compiled a series of personal struggles with infertility, and a diverse array of individuals (various ages, backgrounds, sexual orientations) are included among the stories.

Article discusses the high rate of infertility among physicians and makes a case for comprehensive fertility benefits. It outlines several companies that have comprehensive fertility benefits as a way to attract and retain top talent. The article dispels many myths associated with expanding fertility coverage.

Published in Journal of AAMC. The authors discuss the challenges around both physician infertility and preservation of fertility. They propose three strategies to address physician infertility: increasing fertility education and awareness, providing insurance coverage for and access to fertility assessment and management; and offering support for those undergoing fertility treatments.

Do you have children? The author explores how this question can be so painful for so many women. Perhaps it triggers the issues with infertility. For women without children, we're often left trying to justify our decision, which is often met with a lukewarm reception. Additonally, women in medicine groups are not alway welcoming to women without children. The article reminds us that a woman's choice requires no justification.

“Du hast Wert ohne Kinder” – You have worth without children. The author is an emergency physician that resides in Germany with her German husband. She shares her personal struggle with the decision to have children, the challenges of infertility and later with adoption. Despite years of trying to have a family, the path appears much more narrow and she explores the implications of a life without children.

In this podcast, this Aussie journalist explores the long-adopted plan of "grow up, find a partner, have kids". More and more women are choosing to ignore that path, and the latest research says they’re actually happier for it. So why do we judge women without kids?