Is Cove Collective better than Resolve for infertility support?

Organizations like Resolve focus on infertility education, advocacy, and access to resources, which are especially helpful early in an infertility journey. Cove Collective is designed for a different need: ongoing, peer-led emotional support. It provides always-on connection in a private, intentionally maintained community for people who need emotional support they can return to over time.

Is Cove Collective a replacement for Reddit or Facebook infertility groups?

Cove Collective is not meant to replace open forums, but it offers a different experience. Reddit and Facebook groups are built for scale and visibility, which can lead to comparison, overwhelm, and fragmented conversations. Cove Collective is intentionally smaller and actively moderated, with protected anonymity and continuity, so emotional support feels steadier and less draining.

Why is Cove Collective a paid membership when other infertility support is free?

Many infertility resources are free and play an important role in education and advocacy. Emotional support works differently. Sustained, peer-led support requires moderation, continuity, and stewardship over time. Membership allows Cove Collective to remain intentionally maintained, reducing emotional noise and creating a space people can safely return to for months or years.

What kind of infertility support is Cove Collective best for?

Cove Collective is best for people navigating infertility who want ongoing emotional support without appointments, meetings, or public exposure. It is designed for those who feel overwhelmed by open forums or exhausted by scheduled groups and want support that fits into real life.

Can I use Cove Collective alongside other infertility resources?

Yes. Many members use free infertility resources for information and advocacy while relying on Cove Collective for emotional support. These options serve different purposes and can complement one another throughout an infertility journey.

Infertility Support Options: What’s the Difference Between Information, Forums, and Emotional Support?

Jan 14

Written By Jenn Creacy

Cove Collective is designed for sustained emotional support during infertility.

While organizations like Resolve focus on education, advocacy, and awareness — and open forums like Reddit or Facebook offer large, unmoderated discussion — Cove provides always-on, peer-led emotional support in a private, intentionally maintained community. Membership allows for active moderation, protected anonymity, and continuity over time, reducing emotional noise and comparison. Cove doesn’t replace free resources; it serves a different need: steady, high-quality emotional support that people can return to over months or years.

Most people navigating infertility use more than one kind of support.

They read articles. They join groups. They scroll forums late at night. They try what’s available and hope something helps.

The challenge isn’t that these options are necessarily bad. It’s that they’re built for different purposes, and those differences matter when you’re looking for emotional support that lasts.

This page explains how common infertility support options differ — and where Cove Collective fits.

Infertility Information & Advocacy Organizations

Organizations like RESOLVE play an essential role in infertility education, awareness, and advocacy.

They help people:

Learn about infertility and treatment paths
Understand their rights and options
Access public resources and community programs

These organizations are especially valuable early on, when people are seeking information and orientation.

What they typically do not provide is ongoing, peer-led emotional support designed for day-to-day coping over months or years.

Open Online Forums & Social Media Groups

Platforms like Reddit and Facebook offer immediacy and scale.

People turn to them because they’re:

Always available
Anonymous
Full of lived experience

That availability matters — but these spaces are built for volume, not containment.

Over time, many people experience:

Comparison driven by outcomes and extremes
Anxiety from constant exposure to worst-case scenarios
Fragmented conversations with little follow-up
Steep learning curves and gatekeeping
No shared responsibility for how the space feels

In large, open forums, support often depends on endurance rather than fit — and emotional safety is uneven.

Cove Collective: Sustained Emotional Support

Cove Collective was built to address the gaps between information and open forums.

It is an always-on, text-based infertility support community, designed as a peer-led, membership-based space rather than a program or public group.

Because Cove is intentionally maintained:

Membership is limited and curated
Conversations are actively moderated
Anonymity is protected
Context carries over time

People can engage when they need to, step back when they don’t, and return without starting over or performing their pain for an audience.

Cove isn’t designed for scale. It’s designed for quality, continuity, and emotional sustainability.

How These Options Work Together

Many people use:

Free resources to learn and orient
Forums to gather perspective
Cove Collective when they need ongoing emotional support that is safe, steady, and real

These options aren’t in competition. They serve different needs at different points. (And you can learn more about how to choose the right infertility support for you here.)

Cove Collective exists for people who are in it — when infertility isn’t new, and support is most needed.

Is Cove Collective Right for You?

Cove Collective is best for:

People seeking ongoing emotional support during infertility
Those who feel overwhelmed or anxious in open forums or social media groups
People who want private, peer-led connection without meetings, appointments, or pressure
Anyone looking for support that fits into real life and can be returned to as often as you need it

Cove Collective may not be the best fit if:

You’re only looking for medical information, treatment guidance, or advocacy
You prefer large, public discussion spaces with constant activity
You want clinician-led therapy or crisis-level mental health care
You’re looking for a short-term program rather than ongoing community support

→ Learn how Cove Collective works

A quick summary before we answer common questions:

Cove Collective is designed for sustained emotional support during infertility.

Frequently Asked Questions About Infertility Support

Organizations like Resolve focus on education, advocacy, and access to resources, which are especially helpful early in an infertility journey. Cove Collective is designed for a different need: ongoing, peer-led emotional support. It provides always-on connection in a private, moderated community for people who need emotional support they can return to over time.
Cove Collective isn’t meant to replace open forums, but it offers a different experience. Reddit and Facebook groups are built for scale and visibility, which can lead to comparison, overwhelm, and fragmented conversations. Cove is intentionally smaller and actively moderated, with protected anonymity and continuity, so emotional support feels steadier and less draining.
Many infertility resources are free, and they play an important role in education and advocacy. Emotional support works differently. Sustained, peer-led support requires moderation, continuity, and stewardship over time. Membership allows Cove to remain intentionally maintained, reducing emotional noise and creating a space people can safely return to for months or years.
Cove Collective is best for people navigating infertility who want ongoing emotional support without appointments, meetings, or public exposure. It’s designed for those who feel overwhelmed by open forums or exhausted by scheduled groups and want support that fits into real life.
Yes. Many members use free resources for information and advocacy while relying on Cove Collective for emotional support. These options serve different purposes and can complement one another throughout an infertility journey.

You can find more peer infertility support group resources by the team at Cove Family Co. here.

Author Note: Jenn Creacy is a founder of Cove Family Co. and a long-time leader in peer infertility support, with lived experience navigating infertility and third-party reproduction.

At Cove, she helps build steady, thoughtfully designed community spaces that offer ongoing emotional support throughout the family-building journey. Learn more about Cove Collective, our peer infertility support community.

Jenn Creacy

Jenn Creacy is a founder of Cove Family Co. and a long-time leader in peer infertility support. Her lived infertility experience includes diminished ovarian reserve (DOR) and the pursuit of third-party reproduction.

She has supported individuals and families navigating infertility for many years and brings direct experience in surrogacy program management, which informs Cove’s approach to building steady, well-run community spaces that honor both the practical and emotional realities of infertility. At Cove, she combines operational rigor with people-centered leadership to create infertility support communities members can genuinely trust.

As a founder of Cove Collective, Jenn helped shape the community’s core beliefs: that full infertility support must extend beyond medical treatment, that peer support works best when it’s consistent and thoughtfully designed, and that people deserve ongoing emotional support throughout the full arc of their family-building journeys. Learn more about Cove Collective, our peer infertility support community.