Who is Mel?
Melissa, otherwise known as Mel, The Stirrup Queen, and most recently nicknamed Lollipop Goldstein, has been blogging since 2006. She also keeps an additional site: Lost and Found (LFCA). She also writes for BlogHer. You can join her on StumbleUpon. She’s known to Twitter about her wonky ovaries and you can also find her on Facebook. While you’re there, you can also become a fan of Navigating the Land of If on Facebook.
If you want to figure out how to navigate this site, please click here. There’s a lot to process on the sidebars alone and this should help you from getting lost.
She doesn’t really know why she is writing about herself in third person, but you can read a lot more about her right here.
What is Stirrup Queens? It’s a blog about infertility and pregnancy loss, an exploration of adoption and donor gametes, a bitch session about daily life and books, an outlet for stories and baking lessons written by a sustainable-living, kosher, Jewish, mother of twins conceived via fertility treatments who is still trying to add to her family.