“Fuck off with your ‘Relaxed’!” {Also features on The M Word } Recently I wrote a post about Living With Infertility, and I focused on what the direct impact of it was like at the time. But although it discusses infertility itself, what isn’t often discussed is the effect of that, and how it affects…
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{Also featured on The M Word } Every so often I get asked ‘ So… are you going to try again for a girl now that you have two boys?’ What an odd question. Or am I the odd one? Why would people assume I have a need to have a daughter over another son?…
Read More*Recently featured on The M Word* I think I always knew deep down that when I decided to try and get pregnant, it wasn’t going to be plain sailing. It’s easy to say that now, knowing that did happen in the end, but hand on heart, I always knew. Somewhere within, I could sense that…
Read More{ Also features on MummyPages.ie } Last year, around the time I was preparing myself for our third Frozen Embryo Transfer (FET) in an effort to have our second baby, I read online somewhere that TV3 were looking for couples to take part in a documentary series they were going to film about IVF. Last…
Read More** This post has also been featured on HerFamily.ie & TheJournal.ie** If you’ve ever had a baby, you’ll know you spend a good chunk of time carrying around your hospital chart while you wait for appointments. I liked having a good nose in mine to see what they’re really saying about me. Most of the stuff might as…
Read MoreThey say you should do one thing every day that scares you. So I did! Well I didn’t scare myself every day but still, you get the idea. If you’ve been following the blog at all you’ll have seen that recently some of my articles have been shared on The Journal and on HerFamily.ie . It has been…
Read MoreThey call it the Two Week Wait. It’s a LIE. It’s a Two Month Wait. Or, Two Decade Wait. Or.. well you get the picture. Time slows down, actually slows down. Forget about those days at work where it seems to be 3pm on a Friday for about a year, that’s nothing in comparison. It…
Read MoreI remember my first venture onto a fertility web forum. This looks nice, I thought, other people in the same boat as us. I started to read the posts and the first thing I noticed were all the various acronyms for fertility world – things like ttc (trying to conceive), tww (two week wait), 5dpo…
Read MoreWell the time has almost arrived for my first FET (Frozen Embryo Transfer) which is scheduled for tomorrow. I’ll be honest, I can hardly think about much else at the moment but people at work keep giving me work to do so that’s good. Ish. Stupid work. Since my last post things have been fairly…
Read MoreWell that plan went well! I’m gonna start a new blog and I’m going to update it every day! Or maybe every week. Defo every month or so. Turns out I meant every year by the looks of things. When I started the blog initially it was going to be all about the IVF because…
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The Scenic Route 