Category: Slow Swimmers & Fried Eggs

I’ve been waiting for the right moment to talk about where I am at right now and today felt like the day!   We are very cautiously expecting a miracle…a 10 week old very fragile and precious miracle and we’re feeling very nervous and excited and totally out of our depth!   We’ve gotten so… Continue reading Taking a leap into the unknown: when fertility treatment finally works

Cheers, dear readers, Thank you once again for joining Eric and I and Conceive Hospital as we share our story with you, in the hopes of giving you your own voice for those dealing with infertility and all that that journey brings with it. As Eric said, sometimes simply knowing that we are not alone… Continue reading Tick Tick Tick

Today I am dedicating my blog to National Infertility Awareness Week and to the launch of Justine Brooks Froelker’s latest book The Mother of Second Chances, based on her blog Ever Upward releasing on April 17th. For five weeks 24 amazing women will share their stories of infertility and loss as part of this incredible… Continue reading National Infertility Awareness Week and the Ever Upward Blog Tour

Cheers, dear readers, I hope that you are enjoying our blog posts thus far, as we work to help reduce both the silence and the stigma around the conversation of infertility. Receiving the diagnosis of being infertile while trying to create a family can be shocking, devastating and make couples have a feeling of hopelessness.… Continue reading Bursting with Excitement !

Due to busy schedule and lifestyle, fertility and fertility problems may occur in anyone. It can be grouped as Infertility Male and Infertility Female as per gender. It’s a real life story and it contains all about infertility causes, infertility symptoms, and infertility treatment. Infertility I should really ban myself from Instagram. I do love it for the inspirational… Continue reading Behind the mask: putting a brave face on during infertility

Cheers, dear readers, I want you thank you for the overwhelming support from my last blog post. The comments received both here on this website as well as in private Infertility Support Group forums were so encouraging, rewarding, and helped me remember why I write this blog in the first place. In regards to living… Continue reading Two Types of Mom’s Clubs: The Visible and the Invisible

The brain is a wonderful thing. It can store volumes of information, controls our bodily movements like walking, talking, breathing as well as our thinking functions, emotions and how we behave. However much we have to be thankful to our brains for, they do need to be carefully managed to ensure that they are always… Continue reading Finding your expressive outlet for coping with infertility

On a day that’s all about the future, let me say first that today’s Election-Day post will not talk about politics. But it will talk about The Future, not as in “stuff that’s happening tomorrow”, but The Future as in cue-baritone-narrator, capital T, capital F “The Future”, the big shape-of-things-to-come Future. So while this is… Continue reading Does infertility change how we think about the future?

I had the privilege of watching some of the Noble Prize dialogues on “The Future of Work” this week. The discussions all highlighted some fascinating points about the world of work along with the direction we are headed in in the future. There is no doubt that digital advancements and what has been called the… Continue reading Infertility & the Workplace

How do you feel about attending baby showers? Is it easy to celebrate people’s pregnancies?  Or do you have times where you struggle? What helps you work through your triggers? I have a baby shower in my calendar scheduled for a couple of weeks’ time. Since we are still in a partial lockdown, it’s a… Continue reading Baby Shower Dilemmas During Infertility