Kindred Beginnings

After being a third grade educator for 17 years, I decided to pursue a career as a family-building coach with the mission to help others successfully navigate their own family-building journeys. I live in Southern New Jersey with my husband, Drew, and two miracle girls, Kayla and Rylie.

I’ve dedicated my life to providing validation and education for the family-building community. I volunteer for RESOLVE, The National Infertility Association, to provide peer-led support groups both locally and nationally. I’ve also founded the Walk of Hope NJ, leading the most successful annual fundraising walk for RESOLVE.

As a big sister to my adopted siblings, I watched first hand as my parents fought to build their family, their way.  As a best friend, I stood by Lynn's side as she navigated years of treatments and testing.   Through my work with the Walk of Hope NJ and other advocacy work, I've met hundreds of individuals who have struggled to create their families. 

With Kindred Beginnings, I hope to provide resources to this community I have been so honored to support. 

My husband and I were trying to conceive for over two years and never had a positive pregnancy test. My OB sent us to do some testing and it was discovered through an HSG test that both of my Fallopian tubes were completely blocked. We went straight to IVF. The first round failed, and we had no frozen embryos. The second round brought 2 viable embryos and we transferred them both and got pregnant! 9 weeks in I started bleeding and it was discovered that I had a rare heterotopic pregnancy meaning that one embryo implanted correctly in the uterus but the other had implanted in my left Fallopian tube causing an ectopic pregnancy. I had emergency surgery to remove my left tube and, unfortunately, lost that baby. I was able to sustain the other pregnancy and had my daughter Kayla in 2014. 

We wanted to grow our family so we went back into treatments pretty quickly. IVF rounds 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 were all fails - not even a positive pregnancy test. We decided that we were done with treatments, but I struggled. A lot. I put myself into intense therapy and realized that I wanted to support others and formed the support group which then led to a DIY Walk of Hope through RESOLVE, The National Infertility Association. Our first walk was so successful that my husband and I were nationally recognized at RESOLVE’s annual Night of Hope Gala in New York City in November of 2018.

Through all of this I decided that I wasn’t done and wanted to give IVF round 10 a go…with one catch - I wanted to film a documentary about it! I advocated for myself and opted to have a surgery to remove my second Fallopian tube before getting started with round 10. In October of 2018 I had my tenth transfer and it was successful. I delivered my second miracle baby girl, Rylie, in June 2019.

Board Members:

Lynn Polin- President

Christine Beswick- Treasurer

Michael Beswick- Secretary 

Mission Statement:  Our mission is to provide support, validation, education and resources for all who are family-building.