My babysitter was the first to break the news to me, “Did you hear that they are running out of baby formula?” When she first said this to me, I was confused by her question and thought for sure I heard her wrong. I mean, we’ve all heard of baby formula recalls and the occasional plant shutting down, but was she actually saying that I wouldn’t be able to find my twins’ formula anywhere?

For almost a year, I’ve had the pleasure of seeing people’s surprised expressions when I share that I’m a mom to seven kids, including three sets of twins. I’m enjoying these moments because it took me and my husband 17 tumultuous years of navigating infertility via international adoption, IVF, pregnancy loss and surrogacy to create our family.

Trying to conceive and parenting can become all-encompassing. It can cut you off from the most important things, including your relationship with yourself. It's healthy to pause — whether for a minute or a day — to remember who you are.

“I was speaking to a life coach,” the self-proclaimed IVF Mama coach recalls to So Booking Cool. “It was part of this wellness day that I went to, and I signed up for a quick slot with this life coach…she’s sort of asking me all these questions about what I wanted, and I told her that I wanted to be a writer.”

My path to parenthood made me one of many statistics. I am one of the 1 in 8 women requiring fertility assistance, and also one of the 1 in 4 women who have experienced a miscarriage or pregnancy loss.

Mindfulness and meditation coach Josephine Atluri has seven children, including three sets of twins. She has experienced all the highs, the lows, and tangled messes of complicated emotions that come with having children. Well into her family's journey, she discovered mindfulness and meditation. Now she shares the insights she wishes she had.

Motherhood is stressful starting the moment you decide you’re ready to start a family. No one knows what the road ahead will hold, including infertility, miscarriage, loss, or postpartum depression.

One way to support your emotional and mental health as you aspire to become a parent is to incorporate fertility mindfulness into your daily routine.

To help demystify the process, we asked a diverse group of parents to share their reasons for pursuing surrogacy, what their experience was like, and the misconceptions that exist about the process.

Josephine’s experience creating her modern-day family of seven children inspires her work as a highly sought-after fertility and parenting mindfulness coach.

Getting pregnant can be hard on your mental health. Here's how to weather the storm, mama.

In honor of National Infertility Awareness Week.

For anyone currently in the limbo period and itching to pick up a pregnancy test, here are some tips to help you balance the nervousness with some hope and calm to make the two-week wait more bearable.

8 ways to keep your cool during the 2-week wait.

What I wish I could tell my past self after my miscarriage.

Below are some nuggets of wisdom from my own experience with loss and how I have coached my fertility mindfulness clients dealing with their own struggles through pregnancy loss.

Well, October happens to be National Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month. So let's start the discussion.

After an arduous 13 year infertility journey, we created our modern day family of 5 children via non-traditional methods.

After an arduous 13 year infertility journey, we created our modern day family of 5 children via non-traditional methods.

After years of back-to-back IVF cycles, it was time to pause and heal.