Dealing with infertility is hard enough, but learning you aren’t entitled to any rounds of IVF on the NHS increases the stress, the heartache and the anxiety. The postcode lottery (not…
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The IVF postcode lottery is a national inequality that you may have heard me speak about on more than one occasion. Depending on when you started following my blog, you may…
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Everyone’s journey leading up to IVF is difference. Everyone’s IVF cycle is different, from the clinics, the medication, the protocol, the side effects and ultimately, the outcome. I am currently amid…
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When you start going through IVF, all you want is for it to end with a healthy pregnancy and a child. You long for the injections to end, the fertilisation to…
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2019 is quickly coming to a close and with that we are turning our backs on a decade, and what a decade it has been. Between 2010-2019, I have finished my…
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To my fertile friends at Christmas, This time of year is always hard. Christmas is the most magical time of year, so we are told. Surrounded by ‘Santa please stop here’…
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I always hoped that the day I wrote a post announcing that we had been undergoing IVF treatment, I would actually be announcing a pregnancy at the same time. Despite being…
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As I sit inside a quirky little coffee shop, overlooking the manic streets of the city, I people watch. I watch men walk past in their suits and their ties, notebook…
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Well here’s a post I never thought I’d be writing when I saw those two positive pregnancy test lines almost two years ago…. A post about infertility. Secondary infertility to be…
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Controversial post alert: not everyone will agree with what I’m about to say (and I’m okay with that). I’m by no means an expert on fertility (who is, really?), But I’ve…