I appreciate all your emails. It’s obviously more fun to keep writing when I find out that others are being educated, enlightened and inspired by the fruits of my labor (or labour, as many of you readers appear to be from the UK and Australia).

Many of you are sending me your specific stories, asking for comment. Bear in mind that I am not permitted to give you specific medical advice. I am board-certified only in the USA and more specifically, I’m only licensed to practice in the state of California. Even if you were to pay me, as some of you have kindly offered, I can’t tell you to increase your dose of Clomid to 100mg. I can’t order lab tests on you. I can’t prescribe you drugs. Even if you do live in California, the only way I can give you specific medical advice is if you officially become my patient, so that I have the chance to fully speak with you and evaluate you and there is no way to do that through a website.

I have heard of other doctors, especially psychiatrists, who have perfected a way of taking on new patients over the internet, even across state and country lines. It does, however, require an great deal of documentation and therefore consume huge amounts of time. That’s something I might look into in the future, but as for now, this blog is something I do solely out of passion, not as any sort of business venture. Having said that, just because I can’t use this site to help you in any role as a doctor, I can certainly offer you help as a journalist, directing you to the latest medical news, as an entertainer, amusing you with cute stories, as an educator, trying to explain scientific concepts, as a motivational coach, giving you strength and encouragement to seek help from your own doctors and perhaps as a consumer advisor, giving you my opinion on how best to select an RE and get the most out of your interaction with them.

See? Doctors are by no means the only professionals who can accompany you in your journey towards having a happy healthy baby.