Infertility Support Group

WOW!! That shocks me. I have seen the ade on TV for woman who want to tell their story about getting pregnant. I am just shocked. I think I will be emailing them as well. Thanks.

All she wants is ratings. I know someone who went to see her when she was in California and said Trya is a joke. She has to be hand fed her lines and really just sucks in general. I dont watch her show, and I wont either. How dare she take such a sensitive subject and turn it into an "intervention". I'll picket...let me know when.

On Tyra Show's website they are actually listing 2 different shows. The one is this one..

NYC AREA ONLY! STRUGGLING TO GET PREGNANT AND DYING TO BE A MOM?

Are you a woman in a committed relationship, living in the tri-state area, struggling with fertility? Have you been trying to have a baby and gone to great lengths to try to get pregnant? Are you currently undergoing fertility treatments or about to begin them? Are all your friends and close family members having children - making your situation feel even more desperate? Have you beaten yourself up over this to no end, and feel hopeless? Have you thought about, or even tried, experimental or holistic approaches? Do you feel like a failure as a woman because you can’t get pregnant? Has your inability to conceive put a significant strain on your relationship with your husband? Have you been trying to get pregnant for a long time and feel compelled to share your story to inspire other women or at least make them realize they are not alone? If you live in the NYC area and have struggled with fertility, then SUBMIT BELOW.

and the crazy one.....
DO YOU KNOW SOMEONE SO DESPERATE TO HAVE A BABY SHE’LL DO ANYTHING TO GET PREGNANT?

Do you know a woman who wants to be a mother so badly she’ll stop at NOTHING to conceive? Is she in her late 30s or early 40s and everyone around her is a mom, leaving her depressed and desperate? Or is she even younger and convinced her biological clock is ticking and is fixated on getting pregnant without a husband? Do you worry she’s going to extremes to get pregnant that are bound to backfire and destroy her or her relationship? Is she secretly charting her cycle and sabotaging her birth control? Is she intentionally having unprotected sex with her boyfriend but he has no idea she’s stopped taking her pill? Is she secretly poking holes in condoms to increase her chances? Is she going so far as having unprotected sex with multiple partners hoping to get pregnant? Does she want to be a mom so badly she’s shopping sperm online? Are you concerned about a woman who is so desperate to have a baby she’ll go to any extreme and want Tyra’s help for your friend or family member, if so, then SUBMIT BELOW.

I just wrote a super nasty note for Ms Tyra.

I'll write anyone at anytime, I'm so fired up! This is unbelievably vile!

Here is my contribution:

Since, conveniently, there is no where on this site to just send comments, I am using this area in response to an upcoming show. (Do you know a woman obsessed with being a mom?)

This is so incredibly offensive to all of us that are going through infertility treatments. How dare you or anyone else attempt to tell a woman who is already going through such physical, emotional and, in some cases, financial trama that she should "just give it up"!

The choice to go through these treatments that are not only expensive, but usually painful and typically ending in devastation, is a VERY personal one. ABSOLUTELY NO ONE has the right to add their two cents.

What you SHOULD be discussing is the incredible strength and courage it takes to go through this. You should also discuss how insurance companies refuse to cover the treatment. This is a disease like any other that none of us asked for.

I, personally, have wanted nothing more in my life than to be a mother. I have already lost two pregnancies and it is a struggle everyday for me to move forward with my treatments, which consist of endless poking and proding, having my doctor's office staff see me more than my family and daily injections that, to be very honest, are painful.

Tyra, you are at an age where you may decide one day to have a child of your own. I pray that you never have to experience this pain first hand.

Until a time when you can truly understand our struggle, stick to what you know--hair, makeup and clothing.

She's an idiot, never liked her. Frankly I never understood why her show is so successful. Wait til she tries to have one. After years of hurting her body to stay in model shape, she may have a suprise in store!

I JUST EMAILED THE SHOW----horrible!!!!! TYRA WAS SO UPSET THAT TABLOIDS CALLED HER OVERWEIGHT----APPENTLY SHE IS NOT ONLY JUST AS BAD BUT WORSE!!!!!! I AM SO ANGRY!!!!!

I wanted to share with you all the response from the American Fertility Association, whom was asked to help Tyra find guests from the show (I myself received an email):

Trampling on Trust

As many of you know, The AFA makes every effort to assist the media when reports, stories and programs deal with infertility, reproductive difficulties, fertility preservation and protection. We were approached by the Tyra Banks Show senior producer who pitched one segment about women who pursue ART despite repeated let-downs and perhaps impossible odds. We sent a notice to you asking if you'd be interested in participating in that show. What we've subsequently learned is that the taping revealed another agenda entirely. We are furious. There is no excuse for that duplicitious solicitation. Below is the open letter we've sent to the Trya Banks senior producer.

Ms. Radecki,



The American Fertility Association is writing in response to the numerous calls, emails and blog links we've received about the Tyra Banks Show you've produced about "infertility."



We gladly assisted you in your effort to recruit people who've stuck with Assisted Reproduction despite long-shot odds and the painful difficulties associated with compromised fertility for an installment of your show. Your detailed query asked for contact with women who could speak emotionally and articulately about their determination and their struggles (see below). It is your right to interview willing and informed participants as you see fit. Here we underscore informed. Your show is not a news show, but rather planned entertainment. Nowhere in that initial letter or in numerous subsequent conversations did you even hint that what you were intending was a set up for "spontaneous" interventions and the subsequent damaging conflagrations.



Let's be clear. If you'd honestly put forth your mission, stating that the Tyra Banks Show was interested in emotional confrontations, people willing to defend to family, friends and the world their particular quest for biogenetic children, we'd have put out your solicitation to our membership just the same. We believe in the intelligent decision-making capacities of the people The American Fertility Association serves. However, it now appears you were running a bait-and-switch operation designed to exploit well-meaning and, apparently, the most vulnerable among this group of patients simply to re-create a by-now tired and trite TV rite of public humiliation. That is simply reprehensible.



It is unfortunate that the prism through which The Tyra Banks Show chose to view the delicate and complex subjects of reproductive difficulties and associated medical treatments yielded very little about those topics. Instead, we are told, the focus was on manufactured conflict and hysteria. You could just as well have targeted any other poorly understood condition or disease and produced the same segment.



We regret that we have exposed our membership to such tactics. Despite urging that you treat reproductive difficulties with sensitivity and thoughtfulness -- even if that yielded tough grilling and a feisty give-and-take, you chose to tread the same histrionic ground that's pretty well trampled by now.



The Staff of The American Fertility Association

That is horrible. I can't believe it. it's awful how people do not understand what we are going through!!