Team RESOLVE™ Choice Award Best Blog & Best Book*

Thank you for being a part of the Night of Hope! Your vote helped determine this year’s Team RESOLVE Choice Award for Best Blog and Best Book.  The written word provides powerful support for those dealing with infertility.  Blogs and books give advice, helpful tips, sometimes humor, and most of all hope.

The Best Blog award is given to a blog written by someone who is living with infertility and whose blog posts raise awareness about what life is like when you’re faced with infertility.  This award honors bloggers at all phases of their journey--from those in treatment or adopting to those who have resolved their infertility.  Blogs are a recording of a life, but they also have the ability to teach, reach out to others, and be a receptacle for comfort.

The Best Book award is given to an author who has written and published a book that covers one or more of the following topics: coping with infertility, choosing a family building option, mind/body techniques as it relates to infertility or personal relationships and infertility.

Voting ended on June 24.  Winners will be notified and announced in July.

And the nominees are...

Best Blog Nominees
These 5 blogs were chosen out of 185 blogs that participated in the "What IF?" project.They are all outstanding in their own way.

Just Two Lines Away
Excerpt from “What IF?” Post: What if I can never just be happy with what I have and stop being angry, bitter, and sad about what I do not? I ask myself this question every. single. day. Most importantly, what if I could find something to fill my life with light and purpose that doesn't include children -- something that will stick with me to my deathbed, like the family I so crave, if I can't have that family I so crave?
Read more here.

From IF to When
Excerpt from “What IF?” Post: “What if the hole in my heart never goes away?... The hole aches every day, but not just for me. It aches for the thousands of women and men who are currently in treatment, for the women and men who are unable to afford treatment, for those who have lost, and for gays and lesbians who clinics discriminate against because of their sexuality. It aches for those who have exhausted their options and are living childfree, and for those who are still waiting for that phone call from their adoption agency.
Read more here.

The Maybe Baby (Babies)
Excerpt from “What IF?” post:  "And I don't even get into the what ifs that are so far removed from our reality. They are less what ifs and more hypothetical wouldn't it have been cool ifs.....Wouldn't it have been cool if we could have conceived without significant medical intervention and someone else's eggs? Wouldn't it have been cool if we actually had a chance of conceiving again with my own body? Wouldn't it have been cool if fertility was seen as an important part of surviving cancer?”
Read more here.

Serenity Now
Excerpt from “What IF?” post:“What if there WASN’T science, and I didn’t have my O? He is my HEART, and I am so very lucky. But I’ve also lost something, too. Relying on science has made it so that I’ve lost some of my humanity. Because for us, babies are NOT made with your husband, in your bed, out of love.”
Read more here.

A Little Pregnant
Excerpt from “What IF?” post: What if we'd started trying to conceive when I was, say, 35?  Or what if we'd only begun treatment then?  That year all three cycles we attempted were cancelled for lack of response.I want to be clear: This isn't really about waiting to start a family.  My phone friend said wistfully, "If I'd tried when I was younger..." and I stopped her before she could finish.  We do the best we can, after all, with the knowledge we have at the time.  And how many of us truly wish we'd tried with the men we knew at 20?It's about making sure that people get the help they need as soon as they're ready to get it, as soon as they possibly can.
Read more here.

Best Book Nominees
More than 300 nominations were submitted!

A Few Good Eggs, Julie Vargo and Maureen Regan
Read an excerpt here.

Conquering Infertility: Dr. Alice Domar's Mind/Body Guide to Enhancing Fertility and Coping with Infertility, Alice D. Domar and Alice Lesch Kelly
Read an excerpt here.

Hannah’s Hope: Seeking God’s Heart in the Midst of Infertility, Miscarriage, and Adoption Loss, Jennifer Saake
Read an excerpt here.

Silent Sorority, Pamela Mahoney Tsigdinos
Read an excerpt here.

*Please note: Nominations for Best Blog and Best Book do not imply any endorsement from RESOLVE: The National Infertility Association. Votes are captured via the online survey only.  Only one vote per email address.