Kindbody

By: Dr. Amber Cooper I realize as I begin to replay my day that I had countless concerning environmental exposures. My lunch had more trans fats than I would like to […]

Vios Fertility Institute is now Kindbody. Two New Locations, Three New ProvidersLatest Expansion Increases Care, Compassion for Patients in Illinois and Wisconsin CHICAGO, IL. (July 24, 2017) – For many of […]

Vios Fertility Institute Offers Women Greater Options with theNew Center for Egg Health ExcellenceFacilities are the First in Chicago and St. Louis to Specialize in Egg Freezing Chicago, IL. (March […]

Chicago, IL, October 10, 2016 — Vios Fertility Institute – Wicker Park will hold an Open House Thursday October 13th. The event will include tours of the facility, team meet and greets, […]

1) In a few sentences, please tell us about your own fertility journey… At this point in my life I wasn’t expecting to decide to have a baby by myself. […]

I can still smell the rain from the highway when I realized my father was my hero.  He had just gotten me my first cell phone and was telling me […]

We know the path to becoming a parent can be a winding and complicated one. Whether it’s deciphering ovulation charts, injecting yourself with hormone medications, using a donor or surrogate, or planning for adoption – the reality is there isn’t one path to motherhood, and that’s okay. This past month we dived into the different routes people have taken to become parents or preserve their ability to do so. Hosted by our leading physician, Meredith Brower, we were joined by ABC’s The Rookie actress Camille Guaty-Kaye.

Needless to say, Mother’s Day can be challenging when you are struggling with infertility, but the truth is most days are challenging when you are struggling with infertility. Dealing with infertility is isolating. Most women suffer alone. If you are struggling with infertility, you probably feel as though your body has betrayed you, not being able to execute its most basic human function.

We got married on March 23, 2018, and immediately started trying to conceive. Never in my wildest dreams did I think we would struggle with creating life. We both were incredibly healthy, and never did we think we were that “1 in 8.” That happens to other people, not us…right? Well, we were wrong – we tried to conceive naturally for a year.

Our CEO and founder Gina Bartasi’s journey — she’s a mom of twin seven-year-old boys that she had through IVF; her twin sister has twin 14-year-old girls through IVF; her husband’s twin brother has 8-year-old twins via IVF. Gina has been quoted to say, “the growth in the fertility industry is a direct ramification of macro-economic trends as more and more women wait to get married and wait to have children.” A statistic that rings true today.