How Does Celebrities Opening Up About Infertility Impact the Community?

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Over the last few years, several celebrities have opened up about their fertility struggles. The likes of Tyra Banks, Celine Dion, Nicole Kidman, Gabrielle Union, Mariah Carey, and even Beyonce are among those who have shared their varied stories about infertility, going for IVF, having failed pregnancies or adopting children after years of trying. In… Continue reading How Does Celebrities Opening Up About Infertility Impact the Community?

Your New Years Resolutions For Trying to Conceive

Happy New Year 2017! It’s a new year, and symbolically, a wonderful time of new beginnings and opportunities. This year, you can create some new opportunities on your fertility journey as well. I’m not talking about the trite-and-traditional so-called New Years Resolutions. I never found setting New Years resolutions to be a particularly valuable exercise.… Continue reading Your New Years Resolutions For Trying to Conceive

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Eating for Well For Your Fertility

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  My fertility journey has changed many things in my life. Interestingly that also includes having changed my relationship with food. As someone with polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS), managing my diet is an important part of my lifestyle. My ‘PCOS’ diagnosis came very soon after my husband and I started trying to conceive, and it… Continue reading Eating for Well For Your Fertility

One Year On: Key Lessons From the Infertility Journey

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It is crazy to believe that a whole year has passed since I first began writing for the Slow Swimmers and Fried Eggs blog. What an unexpected year it has turned out to be! It is as if the pandemic slowed life down for a while, but then somehow time sped up again and now… Continue reading One Year On: Key Lessons From the Infertility Journey

Infertility and Spending Time with Other People’s Children

Children are so easy to love. Their innocence, playfulness and curiosity are refreshing to be around, even now in the midst of my own fertility challenges and experiences with pregnancy loss. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that I was the eldest child and the first grandchild in my family, which meant… Continue reading Infertility and Spending Time with Other People’s Children