Q: What does Kindbody’s commitment to LGBTQ+ patients look like? How has that been reflected over the past year during the pandemic, both inside clinics and through virtual care? A: Kindbody’s mission is to empower all people with information and access to comprehensive reproductive health care needs. This includes routine gynecologic care as well as […]

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 was in a long term relationship and had it all planned out in my head that we would get married, have a baby and […]

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 about how satellites would soon fill the sky as we drove home. The conversation then turned to ships – of the sea and space variety […]

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.

As an assisted reproductive technology attorney representing clients in New Jersey, I am thrilled to partner with Kindbody and the folks at New England Surrogacy, an East Coast-focused surrogacy agency, to provide our communities with free educational resources about surrogacy in the Garden State. This month, we’re celebrating the three-year anniversary of New Jersey’s Gestational Carrier Act, which officially legalized surrogacy across the state after almost thirty years of outlawing the practice.

How to Advocate for Fertility & Family-Building Benefits Millions of Americans struggle to start a family. In the modern working world, many women are waiting longer to have children, and as more and more single-parents by choice and LGBTQ+ couples opt to have children, fertility and family-building is becoming more mainstream and less stigmatized. At […]

This post is current as of December 16, 2021 and will be updated as new CDC recommendations are released.  This article was medically reviewed and authored by Dr. Lynn Westphal, the Chief Medical Officer and practicing OB/GYN at Kindbody. With 2020 coming to a close, it seems like the world is one step closer to […]

As an assisted reproductive technology attorney representing clients in New York and New Jersey, I couldn’t be more excited to share with the Kindbody community that New York has finally passed a law legalizing paid surrogacy. After a decade long battle in the state legislature, New York will become a surrogacy-friendly state on February 15, […]

We spend the vast majority of our reproductive years trying desperately NOT to get pregnant.  This is rooted in our health and sex education classes in grade school, which scare us into thinking that even looking at someone can get you pregnant. As we grow older, a continued lack of information, combined with a societal […]

Access to comprehensive sexual and reproductive health is a basic human right. However, based on the Global Fund for Women “the global status of women’s and girls’ sexual and reproductive health and rights is disturbing…