One woman’s tale of love, depression, IVF after 40.
This infertility malarkey requires us to take a number of rather wide leaps of faith. During an IVF cycle we might find ourselves willingly injecting ourselves with various synthetic hormones and other lovely scientific creations designed to stimulate our bodies into doing all manner of amazing things.
Of course, the honour of doing this only occurs [...]
IVF clichés and myths seem to go hand in hand with the burden that is infertility. I am sure we all experience varying degrees of these extra annoying platitudes delivered to in some way to reassure us by well meaning people who are well out of their emotional depth.
Blogosphere pal, Rho of Nobaby Lane recently [...]
Sometimes it seems convenient to make infertility and the resulting IVF treatments the scapegoat for my problems.
Truth is, I had issues with depression, had lost my career, had gained weight, and had lost track of dreams (not necessarily in that order) before IVF entered the picture.
I can not blame infertility for my woes. However, the [...]
Last night Wobbles held me as I sobbed uncontrollably.
“Remember I love you!’ It was more emphatic than his normal daily declarations. This one served a more important purpose.
‘Remember I love you!’ His words acting like an invisible lifeline thrown out across the very short distance between us.
Things have been slipping lately. In the two weeks [...]
Writing a blog is a funny thing. Starting out as a form of therapy to help myself cope with a life now focused on IVF and the race to conceive before turning 45, Lifeslurper has grown and received some attention, both good and bad.
Life feels far less isolated, sharing this experience with others. It is [...]
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 [...]
Thoughts of ‘late’ life parenthood inevitably lead to discussions regarding health. Looking beyond all the media focus on the risk of miscarriage and birth defects to the older gal’s pregnancy, there is the idea that we need to be in the best health possible to tackle parenting head on.
Clocking up 43 years I didn’t actually [...]
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 [...]
Once upon a time in a fertility clinic waiting room far far away Lifeslurper was drawn to a picture book sitting atop of the children’s toy box.
The beautifully illustrated book told the tale of Sleeping Beauty, a princess who at birth was honoured with precious gifts from fairy godmothers. And where one wicked fairy cast [...]
It seems any discussion of an IVF cycle must take place with the mandatory asterisk.
We talk in terms of ‘If the drugs work’, ‘Maybe we will get to egg pick up’ and ‘But what if there is no embryo to transfer?’ It is all just so tentative. We tip toe around as if too afraid [...]
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