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Sarah Preston Gorenstein is a magazine writer, editor, journalist, and digital content producer…when she’s not navigating the rough terrain of Working Motherhood. A former nightlife columnist and dating blogger for Chicago magazine, Sarah reinvented herself when she became a mom in 2009 and began chronicling her new life for The Parenting Post, blogging about all the issues that plague working moms today. She was a new mom while simultaneously serving as the full-time managing editor of Playboy.com. She worked for Playboy for nearly a decade, which never ceases to provide her with colorful material for her writing.

Sarah’s the beaming mom of a happy two-year-old named Preston, and just as she finally felt settled into motherhood she took on her hardest project yet—trying to conceive baby no. 2. Tune in to the Fertility Files every other day to read about Sarah’s personal, and often painful, journey going through secondary infertility.

 If you want to read more about Sarah and her adventures in parenthood, see an archive of Parenting Posts below. She also blogs regularly on her personal site here (www.thecosmomom.com), where she holds absolutely nothing back. Ever.

 


Thursday, June 7, 2012 - 00:12
by Sarah Preston Gorenstein
I think about this a lot, especially lately. I hate being so consumed by these thoughts of whether or not now is the perfect time to have another baby, when I don't even know if I can...Read Full Post
Monday, June 4, 2012 - 09:37
by Sarah Preston Gorenstein
For better or worse, I feel like a changed woman since going through secondary infertility, and all the ups and downs we’ve been through over the last year or so. Here are some reasons why...Read Full Post
Friday, June 1, 2012 - 12:06
by Sarah Preston Gorenstein
The other day at the park Preston was mesmerized by two young sisters playing a game with each other—it made me happy, and a little sad. Read Full Post
Tuesday, May 29, 2012 - 23:48
by Sarah Preston Gorenstein
“Just relax and you’ll get pregnant” is a big bunch of b.s. My relaxing vice used to be a bottle of wine, but ever since those hormone-induced migraines I suffered last year, I've pretty much given up alcohol altogether. Read Full Post
Saturday, May 26, 2012 - 23:33
by Sarah Preston Gorenstein
The women in my circle of friends (we're in our late 30s) are still very much in baby mode—some onto numbers 2 and 3. It makes me think I can do it again, too, but I still have some reservations.Read Full Post
Friday, May 25, 2012 - 11:39
by Sarah Preston Gorenstein
This is an actual thing now, for infertile couples trying to conceive, according to a recent New York Times Motherlode blog. Would you try to fund your infertility treatments this way? Would you help someone else fund theirs?Read Full Post
Monday, May 21, 2012 - 19:18
by Sarah Preston Gorenstein
The future nags at me. I'm finally able to enjoy the present, and am happy with exactly where we are now (and what we have), but if I don't move forward with more fertility treatments soon, will I live to regret it? At 38, with unexplained infertility, you can't exactly "go with the flow."Read Full Post
Friday, May 18, 2012 - 13:24
by Sarah Preston Gorenstein
As lucky and blessed as I feel to have this amazing little boy in my life—who's my daily source of entertainment and happiness—sometimes I still need another distraction from infertility. I nest, and I need to release that energy, here's how...Read Full Post
Tuesday, May 15, 2012 - 23:27
by Sarah Preston Gorenstein
It’s not cheap, but if someone were willing to help you with the cost—say, your parents—would you consider doing it, without a husband in sight? Read Full Post
Sunday, May 13, 2012 - 00:47
by Sarah Preston Gorenstein
Do you ever sit back and think how amazing it is that you created a person just like you? No joke, I used to think: I wish I had a clone of myself to be friends with so I had a sidekick who always wanted to do what I wanted to do, and now I have one.Read Full Post
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