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Lifeslurper resides in a big brown land called Auuustralia. Her early years remain a mystery cloaked in a veil of depression. Age 42 Lifeslurper meets the vague but gorgeous Wobbles. “What took him so long to arrive?” She asks. They make their way together in the world just fine, but are not fine to make a baby – not without some outside help. Enter ART and 2008 the year of 4 IVF cycles & one lousy big fat negative. Lifeslurper is now 46 years old! Time for a baby is running out fast, so too is her sanity. Now it's 2010 - Lifeslurper and Wobbles are getting serious about this baby making business. Donor Egg Cycles are the way of the future and the future is NOW!

The ART Dung Heap

Lately I have spent far too much time contemplating the ART scrapheap.

 

Another predictably downbeat appointment with the fertility specialist, more delays and a 45th birthday end date looming large has brought Lifeslurper to even more reflection. I suspect that this time even Wobbles’ unfailing optimism has been brought to heel.

 

Our baby is floating further out of reach.

 

Tori Amos once sang; “You think there’s heaven where some screams have gone?” I now wonder if there is a place for all those who have valiantly tried (and failed) IVF. Perhaps What Becomes of the Broken Hearted is a more appropriate lyric?

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Angelina, IVF and me

A recent widely circulated report saw claims that Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s twins had been conceived via IVF. The standard unnamed “source” was quoted as saying IVF was used so Jolie “wouldn’t have to deal with the stress of trying to get pregnant.”

 

A few short (hopefully fictionalized) sentences and a world filled with many many fertile people who are completely ignorant of ART and all it involves, let out a collective “tsk tsk” about the kind of reasons people pursue IVF.

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