Resources
Places outside this site
This site isn’t the only thing you need. Below is a short, growing list of people, groups and tools that I would genuinely recommend to someone going through fertility treatment. I don’t add an organization simply because it covers fertility or because I’ve spoken with them. It needs to offer something specific and useful.
Some resources are focused on male-factor infertility. Others are for any man going through treatment with a partner, regardless of whose diagnosis led you there.
If you need to talk to someone
RESOLVE4Men, a free, peer-led virtual support group specifically for men dealing with infertility. It is run through RESOLVE, the US national infertility patient advocacy organization. Meetings are held monthly and require registration.
Not sure whether a support group is for you? You can join and mostly listen. You don’t need to arrive ready to tell your whole story.
Listen to men who have been through it
The Male Fertility Podcast, honest conversations between two men who have personally experienced male-factor infertility and IVF. A good place to hear men talk openly about diagnosis, identity, mental health, miscarriage and treatment.
A Male’s Perspective on Failed Fertility Treatments, one man’s account of the emotional, physical and financial strain of infertility treatment, including the part men often feel expected to carry quietly.
Selected episodes fromThe Fertility Podcast, a long-running fertility podcast combining expert interviews with real experiences. Male-focused episodes include:
- Seeing men in the fertility conversation
- Tim Royle on the male experience of fertility struggles
- Understanding sperm tests and male fertility investigations
Infertility and loss
Men’s Resources, I Was Supposed To Have A Baby, resources for men dealing with infertility, treatment and loss. Particularly useful if you’re struggling with the emotional side of the process or don’t know how to talk about what’s happening.
The organization was created primarily for the Jewish community, but much of the men’s content is relevant regardless of background.
General fertility education
The IVF Warrior, a broad fertility education and patient-support platform with practical explanations, expert input and patient perspectives. It is not specifically for men, but it can be useful when you want to understand the wider fertility landscape.
The Evewell, a UK fertility clinic whose patient-support section is unusually good for partners. Their patient stories include the partner’s perspective, which is rare, and their treatment explainers are clear without being clinical. (They also published my own piece about being a partner during IVF.)
Clinic data and success rates
Clinic success rates can be useful, but they are not a simple ranking. Clinics treat different patient populations, use different eligibility criteria and may report results differently. Use the data to ask better questions, not to choose a clinic based on one number.
- CDC ART data, official US clinic-level assisted reproductive technology data.
- SART, another major source of US fertility-clinic outcome data. Its clinic search and reporting tools may be easier to use than the CDC data.
- HFEA, the UK regulator for fertility treatment, with clinic information, inspection ratings and treatment data.
Other countries:
- Portugal:Associação Portuguesa de Fertilidade
- France:Agence de la Biomédecineand fiv.fr
How resources are selected
I include resources that offer at least one of the following:
- Direct support for men or partners
- Honest first-person experience
- Useful, evidence-based explanations
- Independent clinic or treatment data
- A resource I would personally send to someone I cared about
Being listed here does not mean that I agree with everything an organization publishes. None of these links replaces advice from your doctor.
Know something that should be here?
If there’s a resource that genuinely helped you, send it my way. Tell me what it is and, more importantly, why it was useful.