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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 45 years old! Time for a baby is running out fast, so too is her sanity. What’s the plan for 2009? No one is really quite sure. Join Lifeslurper and Wobbles as they dither some more.

Obscene(ly mad) about Clomiphene

Okay, by now we have all read it, the newspaper headlines that scream fertility medications that “offer no benefit”. I wonder just how many sinking hearts attached to striking wombs were greeted from across the morning bowl of corn flakes with this latest infertility news?

The British Medical Journey has published findings suggesting that clomiphene citrate [...]

Requiem for a Cycle

Before burying Cycle 4 deep in the mental IVF waste dump I am trying to create, I thought I should duly document this antagonist cycle which we hoped would be the answer for us:

Day 1 – Nil medication but lots of hope

Day 2 – Clomid (Clomiphene) 50mg

Day 3 – Clomid (Clomiphene) 50mg & Puregon (Follitropin [...]

All hormonal with no place to go

Today I have been clearing up the visual reminders of IVF. Seems every time we do a cycle the house becomes littered with paper work, FSH boxes, medical swab wrappers and the boxes that the FSH pen needles are packaged in. Perhaps if we could learn to become tidier we [...]

The Pointy End

This current IVF cycle has been very low key. Very quick. Almost painless.

IVF life without Synarel seems much easier. Better still is the hope of a new fertility specialist offering a brand new protocol with lots of bells and whistles. How could an antagonist cycle with two daily doses of FSH plus 5 days of [...]