With the arrival of every new calendar year comes that gaping sense of hope and possibilities, yet when you are in the midst of an infertility situation that no one (except an ever loving partner) see any chance of success, optimism is normally measured out in small doses.
Some times I fantasize over the many luxuries it would take to make me pregnant. Sure many would disagree, feeling that regular trips to the hairdresser have nothing to do with fertility. I however, choose to differ.
When undertaking repeated cycles of IVF treatments, it is first essential to get over the idea that spending all [...]
In the time I have spent – no, make that wasted – fighting the battle of the bulge I have done many sums. They go something like this; it is half way through the year, there are 26 weeks left in the year. If I lost one kilogram a week for 26 weeks by the [...]
The part Lifeslurper dislikes most about IVF is whatever phase of the process I am in at any given moment.
When it gets to the pointy end of a cycle, I long for those seemingly far distant times between cycles when nothing was happening. When I am heading towards egg pickup (as I am now) I [...]