PAIL Bloggers

About This Collection

The resources gathered here reflect the topics our community talks about most: infertility, pregnancy, loss, parenting, and family building. Entries point to external articles and references that contributors have shared over time.

Use these as starting points for your own reading and conversations. Every family’s path is different, and this list is offered as a community reference, not as professional guidance.

Within the PAIL Bloggers community, resources are gathered with care so that no one feels alone while navigating the long road of family building. Many readers arrive here during seasons of waiting, hoping, or grieving, and a thoughtful collection of references can offer language for experiences that often go unspoken. Curated links tend to focus on infertility, pregnancy after loss, parenting through adoption or fostering, and the everyday moments that make up a family life shaped by resilience. The aim is simply to place useful starting points within reach, so a person can read at their own pace and return whenever a new question surfaces. In a community built around shared stories, having resources on standby helps conversations continue beyond a single blog post.

Reading lists shaped by community voices tend to resonate more than any single recommendation could, because they carry the weight of lived experience. Within the PAIL Bloggers world, entries often reflect recurring themes such as breastfeeding and infant feeding choices, the emotional landscape of trying to conceive, decisions about donor gametes, and the tender terrain of pregnancy after infertility. There is also space for reflections on parenting older children, adoption journeys, fostering, and the quieter aspects of identity and mental health that surface along the way. Contributors frequently highlight essays and articles that acknowledge fear and hope side by side, honoring the complexity of building a family. Such a collection becomes less a directory and more a companion, gently pointing readers toward words that may bring clarity or comfort.

Over time, a community resource page grows into something richer than a static list, reflecting the evolving needs of its members. As new topics emerge and old ones resurface, the collection can be revisited and refreshed so that it remains relevant across seasons, whether a reader is in the early days of trying to conceive, expecting after loss, or settling into the rhythms of parenthood. Keeping the page approachable means avoiding jargon where possible and offering brief context for why a piece was chosen, rather than treating each link as a definitive answer. Families arrive here from many starting points, and a well tended resource list honors that diversity by holding space for a wide range of stories and stages. In this way, the page continues to serve as a quiet, reliable touchstone.

External Reading

• Glow Iphone App — Time Techland article (August 8, 2013) on an iPhone app aimed at tracking fertility.
• Glow App profile — Slate piece (August 2013) examining what the Glow fertility app collects about its users.
• MetholicBlog — a blog referenced by community posts.

Community Spaces

PAIL Bloggers also gathers conversation across a few social channels. These are where contributors and readers post updates between monthly themes.

Recent Shares From the Community

These short links circulated through the community feed and may point to additional reading worth exploring:

• wp.me/p2qA1o-4SI
• wp.me/p2qA1o-4FW
• A shared tweet from @pailbloggers