What is a Pre-Adoption Psychological Evaluation? Most domestic and international adoption agencies require adoptive parents to complete a pre-adoption psychological evaluation. The adoption agency wants to ensure the parents are emotionally stable and ready to care for a child. The parents may feel nervous about satisfying this requirement, but it is a fairly straightforward process. […]
Tara’s Story on Beat Infertility
Today’s success story is about a woman named Tara. She is a 34-year-old nurse practitioner who enjoys watching movies, golfing, and exercising. Tara had a spontaneous miscarriage about 7 months into trying to conceive. After consulting her OB/GYN, they were referred to a fertility clinic. They decided that IUI was the next best step for […]
The HolisticND Podcast- Episode #2: Everlasting Hope for ND Couples
Infertility/sub-fertility/delay in conception affects at least 1-in-8 US couples (potentially as high as 1-in-6!). Join Dr. Stephanie and Tara Brandner, the founder of North Dakota’s infertility support non-profit organization Everlasting Hope (she’s also a nurse practitioner, mother and has her own journey through infertility) as we discuss what is sometimes labeled as a “taboo” topic […]