Category: Slow Swimmers & Fried Eggs

One of the most difficult things to grapple with when trying to conceive a baby hasn’t worked out the way you’d hoped yet, is the deep sense of failure and worthlessness that it stirs sometimes. Subfertility has a significant emotional impact and plays on your vulnerabilities. You chastise and berate yourself for not being able… Continue reading Restoring Self-Worth When Subfertility Erodes Your Esteem

Lisa Manterfield is the creator of LifeWithoutBaby.com, the online community that provides resources, community, compassion, and support to women facing a life without children. She is the author of Life Without Baby: Surviving and Thriving When Motherhood Doesn’t Happen and the award-winning memoir I’m Taking My Eggs and Going Home: How One Woman Dared to… Continue reading SSFE Podcast #3 – Lisa Manterfield

Cheers, dear readers, Have you ever had an experience that just blew your mind spiritually and it was literally impossible not to see the metaphors in other areas of your life? Well I had one of those just two weeks ago. It reminded me how in so many circumstances, we question our own ability to… Continue reading How To Achieve Your Own Impossible… Including Surviving An Infertility Diagnosis & Aftermath

Cheers, dear readers, As we discussed in a previous post, midlife can be a major stress-filled phase in this journey we all find ourselves on called life. For those who are afflicted, adding infertility to the mix can send even the most emotionally strong person into a tailspin that can be extremely difficult to stop.… Continue reading Recognising Depression and Fighting it Off !

Cheers, dear readers, Happy New Year to you all! You have heard me say it here before but it is worth saying again. There is much healing power in the power of community. Thanks to the Global Sisterhood community that I am honored to be a part of, I have come to know Justine Brooks… Continue reading The Permission of the “And” TedX Talk on Infertility

I don’t remember too much about what I expected in the beginning. I vaguely recall feeling excited about reaching a place of readiness, excited at the prospect of becoming a mother. There was a lot of change happening in my life at the time. I’d left behind a career in the environmental and social development… Continue reading Jodi Rogers — My Fertility Story

It appears that both Cathy and I have taken inspiration and insight by books recently and I really enjoyed Cathy’s post last week on the four agreements. Simplicity and self-realisation really are the key to a more fulfilled existence.   That said, it’s so easy to be enveloped in our own struggles, especially with ongoing… Continue reading The grass isn’t always greener …

Cheers, dear readers, A friend recently shared an article with me that I found intriguing regarding the ethics of fertility doctors working with their patients in regards to when IVF is prescribed, at what age, and the validity of success rates that are being quoted to their patients. Are some (or many) fertility clinics giving… Continue reading IVF “Success Rates” and Minding Our Health

Man, demographics can be a real pain in the neck sometimes. As much as we like to think of ourselves as diverse and interesting and open to friendships with lots of different kinds of people, we mostly spend our time with people like us. What that means is that life will happen in patterns that… Continue reading What to do when your best friend gets pregnant… and you still can’t

  The first blog post that I wrote for the Slow Swimmers and Fried Eggs blog made me think a lot about who I was before trying to conceive and what it was like at the beginning of my fertility journey. It’s safe to say that my experiences along the way have changed a lot… Continue reading A Letter to My Pre-TTC (Pre-Trying to Conceive) Self