About The IVF Warrior

The IVF Warrior is a fertility insight, education, and advocacy platform translating real patient experience into clarity, understanding, and impact across fertility care.

Built from lived experience and informed by research, The IVF Warrior bridges the gap between what fertility care looks like on paper and what it actually feels like — emotionally, financially, and practically. Our work supports individuals navigating fertility challenges while also helping organizations better understand and serve the people behind the data.

Fertility Affects Millions. The Experience Is Still Misunderstood.

Infertility impacts more than 186 million people globally. Yet despite its prevalence, the emotional, mental, and financial realities of fertility care remain widely misunderstood and underrepresented.

The IVF Warrior exists to change that.

We provide trusted, accessible resources and real-world insight that reflect the full fertility experience — not just outcomes, but the human cost of waiting, uncertainty, treatment, and loss. Our platform centers honesty, dignity, and evidence, ensuring people feel informed and less alone, and that decision-makers understand the realities shaping patient care.

A Trusted Voice in Fertility Care

The IVF Warrior is recognized internationally for its leadership in fertility advocacy, patient storytelling, and digital health innovation.

Our work has been featured across leading health, media, and industry platforms, and is informed by collaboration with clinicians, mental health professionals, researchers, and fertility organizations. We have also been honored with a Sharecare Emmy® for social impact, reflecting our commitment to ethical storytelling, patient-centered insight, and meaningful change.

The IVF Warrior has become a trusted source of perspective in a rapidly evolving fertility landscape — helping individuals feel seen, and helping organizations listen better.

Leadership

Cheryl Dowling, Founder & CEO

Cheryl Dowling is a leading voice in fertility and reproductive health, known for her advocacy, storytelling, and work at the intersection of patient experience, mental health, and digital health innovation.

With a background in mental health counseling and lived experience with infertility and IVF, Cheryl founded The IVF Warrior to create the resource she wished had existed — one rooted in empathy, accuracy, and respect for the complexity of fertility care.

Today, she is an award-winning digital health leader, bestselling author of Unspoken, and an industry-recognized advocate working to elevate patient voice within healthcare, research, and innovation. Through The IVF Warrior, Cheryl continues to push for more transparent, humane, and informed fertility care.

In the Press

Featured coverage includes Forbes, Yahoo, Women’s Health, Business Insider, Medium, CafeMom, Health Insights, Femtech World, and more — highlighting The IVF Warrior’s role in shaping conversations around infertility, mental health, access, and patient-centered care.

Forbes: The Invisible Weight Of IVF—Financial Support And Resources For Men

Yahoo: IVF stories once stayed private. Now creators are sharing the highs and heartbreaks online.

Women’s Health Magazine: How One Woman's Battle With Infertility Changed Everything

Women’s Health Magazine: What not to say (and say) to those struggling with infertility.

Women’s Health Magazine: Three Important Stats About Infertility You Should Know.

HealthInsights: How Infertility is Impacting Fertility Patients and Their Mental Health — Health Insight

Business Insider: Finalists announced in 2022 Sharecare Awards in association with the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, New York Chapter=

Connect With Us @the.ivf.warrior

The IVF Warrior reaches a global audience across social and digital platforms, supporting individuals and collaborating with organizations committed to improving fertility care.