Pamela Mahoney Tsigdinos

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Pamela Mahoney Tsigdinos (born Pamela Mahoney on June 12, 1963 in Detroit , Michigan ) is a US author and blogger of Irish - Polish descent. She lives in Los Gatos , California with her husband, the son of a Greek emigrant and a mother of Scottish descent .

Mahoney Tsigdinos gained international fame for her exploration of the issue of infertility and the challenges that afflicted couples face.

Life

After trying to get pregnant for two years, Mahoney Tsigdinos was diagnosed with endometriosis at the age of 29 and a varicocele a little later in her husband . The treatment of these complaints did not lead to pregnancy within two years , so the couple tried a variety of methods from now on, from artificial insemination to alternatives such as acupuncture and herbal medicine .

Since none of these treatments led to the desired result, the couple decided in 2006, after 11 years, to discontinue the treatment . Since Mahoney Tsigdinos couldn't find anything on the Internet that could help her cope with this difficult situation , she decided to write her own blog in 2007 . From then on, she dealt with all topics related to her sterility . In addition to the end of the treatment odyssey and the slow and difficult distance from her long-cherished desire to have children , she also wrote about dealing with reactions from friends and family as well as about the things that remind her of her childlessness in everyday life .

Publications

Mahoney Tsigdinos made it his business to help other women in their situation and to remove the taboo on the subject of infertility .

So she published in 2009 her book Silent Sorority ( "Silent Sisterhood "), in which they experience with their infertility processed and women affected Courage makes to overcome their infertility and still live a full life. Furthermore, the criticism of fertility treatments and their low success rate is also a topic of the book.

In September 2010, Silent Sorority was named Best Book by RESOLVE , the US Infertility Association. In October 2010, the Finnish Infertility Association magazine , Simpukka , published an article about Mahoney Tsigdinos and their history. In addition, Mahoney Tsigdinos took part in 2011 in the video campaign Truth About Trying by the American women's magazine Redbook , which aims to bring the topic to the public and take away the shame of the women concerned about their infertility. That same month, Judy Norsigian published a new edition of Our Bodies, Ourselves with an expanded chapter on infertility. Silent Sorority is listed in the list of further reading.

This was followed by several articles in newspapers such as the New York Times , which highlighted the controversial issue of artificial insemination (such as egg freezing), which is more business being made than it is actually being successful. Mahoney Tsigdinos also criticized the fertility industry's lack of transparency , such as: B. the fact that over half of all artificial inseminations remain unsuccessful, but are still played with the hopes of women, not to mention health risks that z. B. can occur due to hormone treatment.

“You will not find failure rates or the harmful impacts highlighted in brochures or on clinic websites. In the US this unregulated industry's nickname is the Wild, Wild West of American medicine. "

“You will not find precise information on either the failure rates or the harmful effects in brochures or on clinic websites. In the USA, this uncontrolled industry is typically referred to as the "wild, wild west of American medicine". "

- Pamela Mahoney Tsigdinos : The Sobering Facts About Egg Freezing That Nobody's Talking About .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Facing Life Without Children When It Isn't by Choice , The New York Times .
  2. ↑ Pamela Mahoney Tsigdinos' blog Coming2Terms .
  3. ↑ Article about distinction in Resolve ( Memento of the original from May 31, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.silentsorority.com
  4. ↑ Article in the Finnish magazine Simpukka ( Memento of the original from November 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . (Finnish) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.silentsorority.com
  5. ↑ The Invisible Pain of Infertility , Redbook, October 2011.
  6. ↑ http://www.ourbodiesourselves.org
  7. ↑ Our Bodies, Ourselves , Judy Norsigian (2011)
  8. ^ Selling the Fantasy of Fertility , The New York Times .
  9. ↑ The tough Truth about egg freezing perks , Fortune .
  10. ↑ The Sobering Facts About Egg Freezing That Nobody's Talking About , Fortune .
personal data
SURNAME Mahoney Tsigdinos, Pamela
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mahoney, Pamela
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American author and blogger
DATE OF BIRTH June 12, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Detroit , Michigan