Category: Slow Swimmers & Fried Eggs

I’ve had a stark realisation this week, that we’ve basically run out of funds.   The fertility bank balance has officially dried up and now that I’m out of a job we’re basically having to hedge all our bets on the two little embryos that are hopefully growing inside me right now.   Obviously, we… Continue reading The fertility bank balance

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,   This past weekend, my husband Eric and I sent out an invitation for our tenth wedding anniversary celebration. Wow! I am having a hard with the realization that ten years ago this October, we said our vows we wrote together in front of our loved ones, creating at that time our… Continue reading Surviving Trauma and the Healing Power of Love

There was something about the rumbling thunder and the gloomy grey rain-soaked days that seemed to mirror the heaviness in my heart. Hurt and an overwhelming sadness permeated everything. As much as we’d tried to comfort one another, we just didn’t know how to move through the grief. I realised that I needed emotional assistance,… Continue reading Creating Space to Grieve After Early Pregnancy Loss

A popular pregnancy test brand recently posted its first photo of a negative pregnancy test result on Instagram and infertility awareness advocates within the TTC community celebrated it as a significant gesture. Sharing this simple picture on their social media account was viewed as a nod towards the community of women whose fertility story doesn’t… Continue reading Do you have an infertility self-care list ?

The worse the year, the bigger the New Year’s Eve party! This is my new motto – I came up with it 2 minutes ago and I’m sticking with it!   I love these days in between Christmas and New Year, when, if you’re one of the lucky ones who don’t have to work, these… Continue reading New Year’s Eve – start as you mean to go on! Fertility struggles do not have to ruin your party

Cheers, dear readers, I have always found it fascinating to see the tabloid covers at the checkout aisles that obsess over celebrities and whether they are pregnant or not, who just had a baby, who wants a baby, and on and on it goes. Before I started my quest to become a parent after I… Continue reading Celebrities in the News with their Infertility Struggles

Lesley Pyne believes that it is possible to have a fulfilling life as a childless woman. She spent the first 50 plus years of her life putting everything she didn’t want to feel in a box, including her grief following multiple failed fertility treatments and the loss of both parents. In the process of writing… Continue reading SSFE podcast – interview with Lesley Pyne

Cheers, dear readers, Today’s post is going to happily mark several milestones. The first is the one year anniversary of our Slow Swimmers & Fried Eggs blog! I cannot believe a year has gone by! What a body of work we have created here alongside Conceive Gynaecology & Fertility Hospital and the Shrivastav family! It… Continue reading How do couples survive infertility intact?

Urban Dictionary definition of the natural order of things:  “the way things were meant to be”   Growing up, I always just assumed certain things would happen; my parents would always be around, I would get married and have kids before I was “too old” ie. 30 (!) and I would always do things before… Continue reading When infertility bucks the natural order of things