Our story
I built the tool we wished we had.
I'm Syd Brickey, founder of WeFertility. My wife Gina and I live by one motto: leave it better than we found it.
How we got here
We started planning our family before we were married. Friends who'd been through it told us to start saving early, so we opened a bank account while we were engaged and saved all we could.
We chose a known donor, a dear friend who said it would be an honor. That meant a known donor agreement, legal steps, counseling sessions, and appointments and bloodwork lined up across three people's schedules.
At our first IUI appointment, Gina learned she had stage 3 endometriosis. After three rounds of IUI, we moved to IVF.
That's when it became a full-time job. Steps that had to happen in a specific order. Cryptic follow-up emails. A clinic that lost our documents. Bills arriving back to back, three in one weekend. And only one chance a month, so one missed step could cost us months.
We ran it all through spreadsheets, group chats, and shared folders. The process took more from us than it needed to.
Why WeFertility exists
Most people starting IUI, IVF, adoption, or surrogacy don't know what they don't know. No one hands you a system for the appointments, forms, bills, reimbursements, legal steps, and people you have to keep in sync. So I built one. WeFertility remembers, so you don't have to, and you get more time with each other.
Built for every path to family
IVF, IUI, adoption, surrogacy, and known donor journeys. Invite your partner, donor, and support people. Give everyone their own to-dos, and control who sees what.
What WeFertility is, and isn't
Think of it as project management for building your family. It's not a medication or injection tracker, and it doesn't give medical or legal advice. Your clinic, agency, and attorney handle that. We help you keep up with it.
As heard on The Queer Family Podcast
Gina and I shared our full story: our known donor, IUI, IVF, and why I built WeFertility.
Who's behind it
Questions or partnerships: support@otelytics.com
About the author
Photo by @willkhouryphotography
Sydney Brickey is the founder of WeFertility, an iPhone app that helps people organize IVF, IUI, adoption, surrogacy, and known donor journeys with their partner and support people. She and her wife, Gina, went through IUI and IVF with a known donor in Texas and learned firsthand how much coordination fertility treatment takes. Sydney shared their story on The Queer Family Podcast. She built WeFertility so other families can spend less time managing the process and more time with each other.