Why Fertility FrameworK?

Personal Experience & Professional Expertise

A Need

1 in 8 women of reproductive age have received fertility care in their lifetime in the United States. 1 in 4 couples have suffered a loss. Statistics, no matter where they are taken from, show staggering rates of men and women needing help in regards to conceiving all over the country and all over the world.

Feelings of lonlieness. Frustration. Confusion. Loss. For some, fertility can feel more like a nightmare than a dream. Why should fertility become the dreaded F-word? There has to be a better way to see it. These concerns brought about the founding of Fertility Framework. After years of seeing friends and clients cycle through these struggles, Our founder, Megan Bendinelli, decided to bring her professional expertise and her personal experience to the forefront and provide the missing component to fertility care.

Personal Experience

Megan knew it was time to reframe and expand her views on fertility care when she experienced first hand the rollercoaster of emotions when trying to conceive. Megan and her husband struggled with infertility and experienced several miscarriages. She experienced the heart break, exhaustion, and uncertainty she witnessed her friends and clients often endure. These feelings and moments reinforced one simple idea: more needed to be done, and more could be done. Whether it was more time--to ask questions, discuss options, and understand results--or more empathy-- to feel comforted, heard, and respected—Megan recognized that care must expand beyond the medicine, and typical short appointment times and include education, psychological support and optimization of one’s health.

Professional Expertise

Megan knows the ins and outs of fertility care and has experience working with many fertility centers and OBGYNs around the world. Through learning skills and methodologies from top specialists in the field of Reproductive Endocrinology and Gynecology, she gained valuable and useful experience to share with other. She is a member of ASRM, AWHONN, ACOG, NPWH, certified in perinatal mental health through PSI and certified as a nutritional coach from Precision Nutrition. She has knowledge in all areas of women’s health and wellness. Megan is very passionate about preconception, conception, birth, and beyond. She has collaborated and worked along the side of some of the best specialists in the fields of maternal health, nutrition, gynecology, psychology, and reproductive endocrinology across the globe.

Megan strongly believes life is all about learning, and collaboration with others. With such belief, Megan partnered with other likeminded, passionate professionals and elected to grow Fertility Framework to a team of practitioners to best guide clients in the direction of sound and practical advice and support (Team BIOs Coming) through individualized care assessments. As Fertility Framework evolved, Megan has brought on other consultants who bring their various experience and expertise to help support and optimize each clients health in a multitude of ways.

 Framing for the Future

In 2023, Fertility Framework expanded and brought on various Team Members to support Megan’s original mission. Together, they provide precise and practical information to ease the stress that inevitably comes with fertility care and family building. Whether clients are just venturing into family planning, gearing up for IUI/IVF cycles or an embryo transfer, pregnant and preparing for delivery, or desire care postpartum and beyond- The Fertility Framework Team provides aid in navigating the path, sound advice, and a steady shoulder for each moment of the journey. 

Fertility Framework Team members believe a client-centered and a team approach is best. They work with professionals across multiple medical disciplines and health and wellness practitioners. Their aim keeping clients informed and feeling confident as they progress and learn about their body, health options, supplements and medications, treatment results and implications, and support outcomes expected and unexpected. As active contributors and advocates within Nutrition, Gynecological, Psychological professions, they stand ready to guide clients through the complexities to optimize their health- wellness-longevity, or endure third party reproductive services including utilizing a surrogate, egg donor, or sperm donor when necessary with their medical team. They refer clients to various agencies and donor databases if such circumstance requires. They also collaborate with many agencies to offer nutritional education and cycle guidance services if desired and requested. 
 
The Fertility Framework Team focuses on the importance of wellness both physical, psychological, and emotional. They emphasize a holistic and integrative approach to set individual goals that are attainable and optimal for each client to feel better than they did before. Through their programs, education and care, they provide an opportunity where their clients needs and experiences are heard, validated, and addressed with a shared decision making process. They believe everyone should be allowed a safe space for support and time for empowerment and education. They want their clients to meet their fertility goals and are excited to help frame a pathway for them.

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