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It’s early in the morning. 5.30am to be precise. I have woken up feeling like today is a combination of exam day and christmas morning. Although probably more towards an exam day to be honest in terms of nerves and anxiety mixed with a tiny bit of positive anticipation.
And why? What on earth am I doing at that time of the morning?
Continue reading “A testing time….”Anyone who has more than a passing flirtation with infertility comes to know the two week wait (often written as 2WW or TWW).
What on earth is the TWW? Well, its not the length of time it takes to get served at an Amsterdam café (although it might as well be sometimes!)
Continue reading “The two week wait….”When you start on the fertility journey – loathe this term, but nothing else quite captures the unexpected roadblocks, accidents, deadends, wrong turns and suddenly parts of clear sailing that you find yourself experiencing – you may need to make a choice on which fertility clinic you choose.
This is where it gets a bit like internet dating (which I also have far too much experience of…)
Continue reading “Why choosing a clinic is a bit like online dating…”‘Think positive!’
‘Keep the faith’
‘Put your positive pants on’
Continue reading “Thinking positive…”I’ve not really felt like writing anything for the past few weeks. I started working from home / social distancing from mid-March, and the ways things look, we (husband and I) will be doing this for at least a couple of months to come.
Continue reading “Covid19”Or rather, how desperate in the race to have a baby are you to try the most random things?
Full disclosure moment, I didn’t try that many things, but even the ones I did try, my younger self from 5/10 years ago would have been rolling her eyes at and muttering ‘nutter’ under her breath, so…
Continue reading “How ‘woo woo’ is too ‘woo woo’ for you?”Lets talk about drugs.
No, not the fun ones.
Fertility drugs.
Continue reading “What fresh hell is this?”Some days it feels as though the entire world around you is either pregnant or accompanied by children. And odds are, that the days you are thinking this are the days when you are least able to cope with it. Perhaps you just started your period (again!), perhaps you’re in limbo waiting to hear from your doctor about possible options, or perhaps you just had bad news from your clinic. Whatever the reason, sometimes it feels as though the whole world has become a childrens playground.
Continue reading “Coping with infertility”Now, I don’t know about you, but I don’t remember much from my sex education at school. What I do remember is some labelling of anatomy diagrams and our biology teacher trying to explain periods, getting flustered and mumbling something about making sure we disposed of our pads properly in the bin. Suffice it to say I’ve learnt a lot about my own bloody body in the past few years which I am fairly sure I should have already known. However, in talking to friends it appears I am not the only one with substandard knowledge of reproduction and the reproductive system, so buckle up as I’m going to attempt to explain in my idiots guide to making babies. Enjoy.
Continue reading “The idiots guide to making babies (Or how on earth did any of us get here anyway?)”Today I’m in Africa on holiday, Namibia to be precise, and I just had an experience I have had many times before from different well meaning people. It gave me the way to start this post, the title of which has been in my head for over 2 years and is essentially what I would like to reply to all the unsolicited advice and comments I have received over the past few years and have instead (mainly) just smiled politely. Let’s begin.
Continue reading “Unsolicited advice (Or fuck the actual fuck off)”