Mind Over "Matter"

Tammy Quinn and Beth Heller know from personal experience that infertility impacts every aspect of a couple's lives. It's stressful, painful, depressing and discouraging. Marriages break up. Family ties are strained. Some people lose their jobs or suffer terrible financial setbacks.

In the not-so-distant past, infertility treatments focused on the patient's pelvis, not on their psyche. Fortunately, that's not the case any longer thanks to places like Pulling Down the Moon, a holistic center dedicated to redefining the meaning of fertility. Pulling Down the Moon was founded by Quinn and Heller and based upon their individual experiences with infertility treatments.

Heller of Chicago, Ill., was in the hospital when interviewed for this article; she had just given birth to her first child, Jackson, conceived with the help of Clomid. All births are special, but Jackson's birth followed a harrowing journey down the path of infertility that included one miscarriage and the devastating stillbirth of her previous child at 38 weeks.