Category: Slow Swimmers & Fried Eggs

  Has anyone been plagued by sleepless nights since the advent of the coronavirus pandemic? Usually, I have no problem finding peaceful rest at night. Yet, for some reason my sleep patterns have regressed in recent months. I’ve had more and more restless nights, finding it hard to fall off to sleep until much later… Continue reading Coronasomnia: Improving Sleep for Fertility Wellness

My friend just completed a “tough mudder” challenge – 5 miles, 13 mud-soaked obstacles and a lot of team work and pain…perhaps unsurprisingly when I heard about this feat of unexpected physical assertion (this isn’t her usual weekend activity!) it reminded me of when I completed my one and only half marathon run, how terrified… Continue reading Lessons learned from infertility

I really look forward those moments in the day when the tasks on my to-do list are completed and I get to just switch off and enjoy a little bit of art therapy. Creative expression has been a wonderful outlet for me since childhood, and even now in adulthood, I find it so fulfilling to… Continue reading Art & Creativity for Relaxation on Your Fertility Journey

If there’s one thing I know for sure is that being diagnosed with and struggling through infertility can bring up a whole slew of unwanted negative emotions. One of the toughest to deal with is SHAME. When we try to conceive, and bear our own biological children and have difficulty, we start to think thoughts… Continue reading Combatting the dirty little secret of infertility: Shame

Hello everyone, Eric here again.   And I’m having a bad day. I mean, a really lousy day. One of those days where it feels like absolutely everything is going wrong. So in the midst of all this, I cast my mind back to the toughest days on our infertility journey, and I am reminded… Continue reading My Three Pillars – The Very Specific Things that Get Me Through My Worst Days

Cheers, dear readers, I wanted to take a moment here to thank Dr Pankaj Shrivastav for his diligence and perseverance in doing his best to care after his patients using any method possible. Having Eric and I share our experiences here in an effort to help Conceive’s patients and the world at large is just… Continue reading Remember the Power of Words

We were up at sunrise, early enough to beat the crowds and hoping to get ahead of the mid-morning heat. My husband and I arrived just as the morning dew was beginning to evaporate. The air was fresh and laced with a lovely gentle breeze. Around us, the world was alive with birdsong. We checked… Continue reading Reflecting on How Far You’ve Come on this Fertility journey

It is always interesting to peel away the layers of just how much there is to deal and cope with when you’re going through infertility. Just when you think you’ve navigated this road long enough to have seen it all, you uncover another layer. One topic that’s kept coming up for me over the past… Continue reading Are You Really Tired or Busy if You Don’t Have Children?

There is so much noise around mental health at the moment, which is a great thing, as for so long mental health has been regarded as a second class citizen to physical health.   The focus on our minds and wellbeing is crucial as suicide rates continue to increase. In the US alone the rate… Continue reading The pressure of depression during infertility

Cheers, dear readers, Last week, my husband Eric and I had quite a scare. We thought that we were going to lose our oldest cat Merrie to cancer or some other feline disease. We thought that we were going to have to make the extremely tough decision to have her put to sleep so that… Continue reading Gratitude: Count your blessings, no matter how small