Fertility Blog

You're not crazy. You're not overreacting. This really is that hard.

It doesn’t start when you wake up. It starts days before.

You’ve got a scan coming up, and already your chest feels tight.

You can’t focus. You can’t relax. You start preparing yourself for all the possible outcomes, especially ...

Let’s talk about something that no one wants to admit out loud:
You see someone announce their pregnancy - maybe their second, or third... and you feel a wave of resentment.

Your chest tightens. Your jaw clenches. You scroll past like, “Oh yay. Another one.”

And immediately, your inner dialogue j...

I’ve been through 9 IVF cycles.

That’s not a typo. Nine.

So when I say I know the rollercoaster you’re on, I don’t mean it in a “oh hun, I read about IVF once” kind of way. I mean I’ve lived it. The bloating, the blood tests, the hope, the heartbreak, the obsessive Googling at 2am. I’ve been exact...

This journey is hard—there’s no way around that. But what makes it even harder? The way you talk to yourself.

Your inner dialogue has the power to turn pain into suffering, to keep you stuck, to strip away hope. And when you’re already carrying so much, the last thing you need is your own mind wor...

Let's talk about something that comes up a lot—failure. A failed IVF cycle, a failed IUI, a failed pregnancy. I asked people on Instagram recently what they struggle with the most, and so many said the same thing: failure and the fear of it.

The Problem with the Word "Failure"

First, let’s look...

If you’ve been on this fertility rollercoaster for a while, you’ve probably said something like this:

“I used to be such a positive person.” “I can’t imagine this ever working out for me.” “Everyone around me is pregnant.”

At some point, your mindset shifts. You start seeing the world through a fi...

Let’s talk about something that most of us experience but don’t always recognize—survival mode. If you’ve been on your fertility journey for some time, you might know this feeling well. That constant state of just getting through the day, feeling stuck, and struggling to imagine anything good coming...

Infertility and pregnancy loss have a unique way of knocking you down a peg or two. You start the journey as a confident, self-motivated, glass half full kind of person, and somewhere along the way your zest for life is sucked out of you.

Your self-confidence is usually the first to go. You strugg...

What’s the f*cking point?

I can’t wait for this to be done, so I don’t have to do this sh*t anymore.

Why do I have to make all of these changes, and no one else does?

It’s a narrative that slips into your mind a LOT on this journey, so if you’ve been saying these things to yourself lately, then...

One of the things I struggled with a lot on my fertility journey, was not being able to picture holding a baby in my arms at the end of it. I had hopes and dreams before we started trying to conceive, but a couple of years in, and I just couldn’t imagine it anymore.

And it worried me. Actually, it...

Infertility can feel all-consuming. It’s the first thing you think of when you wake up in the morning, and it’s the last thought you have when you close your eyes at night. It changes the way you’re able to socialise with other people, it affects your relationship with your partner, it impacts your ...

I read some comments on a post over on Instagram the other day that were completely offensive to those who are trying in vain to have children via assisted reproductive methods. It made my blood boil, because it made me feel judged for the decisions I had made to create my family. Plus they were mad...