Kristen has appeared "In the News" in various publications throughout the past few years. Read about her in the numerous articles below.

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The Patriot Ledger
Saturday, April 21, 2007

Cutting the cost of conceiving:
Coverage for infertility treatment has made family a reality for some

Kristen Magnacca looked at the price and panicked. The cash register at the pharmacy said she owed $978.97. And that was just for the first round of fertility drugs she would need in what she knew could be a long quest to conceive a baby. Read Article

she Shines
Spring 2006

the unexpected challenge of infertility and mother's day

Paula felt weak, as though all the energy had been drained from her body. As she sat staring at the phone she felt so conflicted. It wasn't that she didn't want to honor or be with her mom on Mother's Day it was the overwhelming sense of shock that she was still faced with. Read Article

Let's Talk Adoption
Tuesday, December 7, 2004

Keeping the Love Alive –
While Trying to Create a Family

Tired of doctors, shots and fertility books? Love and romance can often take a back seat to basal thermometers, hormone shots, and ovulation charts. This show is for you if you are one of the six million American couples working to overcome fertility issues. Read Article

The MetroWest Daily News
Sunday, December 5, 2004

No vanity about it:

Today's authors using 'self-publishing'
houses to get their message out

Far from being the "vanity press" of old – where the barely talented paid to see their names on a book cover, and ended up with a cellar full of unsold books – self-publishing has become an outlet for authors who want total control over their product. Some hope to prove a market exists and get a deal with a mainstream publisher. Others know they have the ability to sell it themselves and want a way to get their books out immediately, rather than wade through the traditional publishing process. Read Article

Fertility Neighborhood
November 9, 2004

The Challenge of Infertility:
Finding Light In Your Emotional Black Hole

In couples facing infertility treatment, basal thermometers, hormone shots and ovulation charts can be the primary focus. In those circumstances, love, romance, communication and understanding that come with relationships can often be pushed back to lower priority status. As an extension of that, negative feelings can eventually bubble up to the surface; frustration, hopelessness and miscommunication can create radical changes in a couple's daily relationship. Read Article

The MetroWest Daily News
Tuesday, November 2, 2004

For love of family:

Upton woman offers direction
to couples struggling with infertility

Magnacca, 41, knows her topic all too well. In "Girlfriend to Girlfriend," she poured out her soul chronicling the infertility battle she and her husband Mark fought. The result was darkly humorous and wrenchingly honest and it struck a chord with thousands of women who were experiencing the same crisis. Read Article

Milford Daily News
Sunday, September 26, 2004

Good news: Upton resident talks on infertility

Overcoming the emotional challenges associated with infertility is the topic of a discussion being led by UPTON resident Kristen Magnacca Monday, Sept. 27, at Borders, Books, Music & Cafe in Boston. Read Article

Boston Globe West Weekly
September 26, 2004

The Boston Globe

As corporate consultants, Kristen Magnacca and her husband, Mark, of Upton, knew just what to tell people who wanted to improve businesses and their partnerships. At work they were in control and on top of their game. But at home, as they struggled with infertility for eight years, the couple felt they had no control. Read Article

InFocus
Fall, 2004

The Art of the Game Plan

The battle to reproduce is bruising. But we are surprisingly resilient, bouncing back from let-down after let-down to take another run at family-building. When we sign on for fertility treatment, we wind up living extemporaneous lives. We improvise schedules, adapt to the relentless uncertainties of testing, monitoring, procedures, the meds and their side-effects. We turn on a dime to seize unexpected opportunities motivated by the vision of the babies who we believe, at our core, are going to result from our dedication. If only we keep trying... Read Article

InFocus
Fall, 2004

At 35, I was a happily married, successfully and professionally employed woman whose life was ruled by the belief that if you set a goal and took the necessary action steps, you had the equation for success. That was all true until we began trying to create our family. Read Article

FitPregnancy
August, 2004

How to Get Pregnant

If you're reading this article, chances are you're not pregnant yet but would like to be soon. For approximately 85 percent of American couples, conception happens fairly easily, and we hope you're among them. During the times in your life when you're trying not to have a baby, you know that having unprotected sex just once can result in pregnancy. But the truth is, conception doesn't happen quite as quickly as you may think, particularly when you're 35 or older. Read Article

Fertility Neighborhood
March 9, 2004

Author Uses Past Infertility Struggles to Reach Out to Others

Wrestling with infertility struggles can leave some couples reeling, ready to give up or face life with a sense of hopelessness. And while the realization of infertility wasn't an easy struggle for one New England woman, it became the catalyst for a much broader purpose: her role as the keystone of support for other couples who had embarked down the same, traumatic path. Read Article

Cape Cod Times
July 31, 2003

After fertility issues, medical treatments, marital difficulties, and testimony before Congress, a Sandwich couple realizes parenthood and counsels others

SANDWICH - Kristen and Mark Magnacca got married one day and expected that she would be pregnant the next. Parenthood was No. 1 on their list of things to do as a couple, and they were anxious to get started. Their bodies had other plans. Read Article

Woman's World Magazine
December 18, 2001

A woman's story

"Miracles do happen!"

Kristen Magnacca had a loving family and friends, but no one who truly understood how it felt to long for a baby and not be able to have one. So she turned to her journal, never realizing the miracles it would lead to... Read Article

Pregnancy.org
May, 2002

How To Handle Mother's Day Emotions

Whether or not you are out of the closet to your family and friends regarding your fertility issues, holidays or special occasions including the upcoming "Mother's Day" celebration can be difficult to handle. Read Article

Hartford Courant
November 26 2001

What's A Prospective Mother To Do?

"Just relax, dear." The words are enough to incite even the mildest woman struggling with infertility into a fire-spitting rage. But old Aunt Tilly and all those other purveyors of unsolicited childbearing advice may be onto something. Read Article

The Boston Globe
July 4, 2001, Wednesday, Third Edition

Kristen Magnacca of Upton wanted
to publish her story, in her own way.

Magnacca, 40, and her husband, Mark, had been married 10 years, hoping and trying to have children. In 1997, she had a disastrous ectopic pregnancy, followed by a deep depression. After a time, she resolved to work her way out of her despondency by telling her story in a book. While it was well underway, the story changed happily: Her son, Cole, was born. Read Article

About.com Forum Discussion
May 3 - 17, 2001

Transcript of Forum Discussion with
Kristen Magnacca on Surviving Mother's Day

Mother's Day is an annual event in the U.S. and U.K., one that's supposed to be a reminder of the joys of motherhood. For many who visit our site, Mother's Day is instead a reminder of pain and anguish, loss and despair, and isolation. So, we've created this special folder to help us all get through the coming holiday! Read Article

Worcester Telegram & Gazette
Monday, December 4, 2000

Couple's struggle to start a family is shared with others

Kristen Magnacca saw her friends through their first pregnancies, but when many of them expanded their families for a second time, she couldn't hold back the tears. Read Article

U.S. Senate Appropriations Testimony
March 28, 2000

Testimony of Kristen Magnacca before the United States Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor/HHS & Education

In 1997 I arrived at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center's Mind/Body Center for Women's Health a shattered woman. For three years my husband Mark and I had tried unsuccessfully to conceive a child. We were unexpectedly thrust into the world of infertility treatment; our life revolved around our childlessness. Read Article