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You Can’t IVF What You Want

Lifeslurper — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:20:46 +0000

Does prolonged exposure to the rigours of infertility necessarily destroy a relationship?

Can love die for the want of a baby?

When hope is lost, what is left?

These last few months after loss have been unspeakably hard. So much has happened since another Baby Wobbles left us. It has largely been the same [...]

Lifeslurper’s Tipping Point

Lifeslurper — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 10:03:43 +0000

‘Hold on to me!’ He said with some urgency.

So I did. More tightly than I could remember doing in any of the previous five years. Then I wept some more, thus continuing the pattern of virtually every day for the last four weeks.

I am at a loss to really explain to Wobbles [...]

What Becomes of the Broken ARTed?

Lifeslurper — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 10:58:32 +0000

Three days spent alone immediately after news of an early end to pregnancy is a sure-fire method to become acquainted with isolation.

My only direct communications were Wobbles’ many phone calls and Twitter. There were three short impersonal calls from the nurse. I had single interactions with my mother, my GP and the woman [...]

6 weeks 1 day

Lifeslurper — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 04:31:03 +0000

Just three days ago, I decided being pregnant must have caused temporary insanity. Laying face down on the acupuncture treatment table as flat as my swollen belly and enlarged breasts would allow I became aware of a thudding in my stomach. It was out of synch with my feel of my heart beating in [...]