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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!

Relationship Clouds

 “I want to know why clouds

Come in between you and I”

From You in the Sky by Mike Scott

 

 

The honest truth is that lately I feel you have not really been there for me. Wherever ‘there’ is!

 

I suspect that supporting me through this is too much to ask of you, and now you are getting tired.

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March 25th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Nest | 3 comments

Too much to swallow?

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 after we have signed our lives away, by acknowledging that the clinic and doctors are not responsible for any future health issues that might be visited upon us or worse still, our future offspring and every generation thereafter, it would seem.

Continue reading Too much to swallow?

September 19th, 2008 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Nest, Vessel | 4 comments

Greatest infertility myths and clichés

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 unleashed a stinging, yet highly amusing post entitled ‘Stupid Fertiles’, a Top 10 list of the stupid things people say in regards to infertility. Continue reading Greatest infertility myths and clichés

August 27th, 2008 | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Category: Nest | 6 comments

A perfect time for IVF?

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 temptation is certainly there to associate all that is wrong about my world on the most obvious and recent of culprits. Continue reading A perfect time for IVF?

August 21st, 2008 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Nest, Vessel | 3 comments
 
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