Category: Slow Swimmers & Fried Eggs

  I’ve written before about how isolating my fertility journey was in the beginning. I didn’t expect to struggle to conceive. At the time, I didn’t know anyone else who was going through what I was. The people around me seemed to fall pregnant and grow their families effortlessly. So, I endured the shame and… Continue reading Finding An Infertility Community Online

When I walked into the warm breezy room I was immediately overcome with a mix of emotions. The afternoon sun poured in generously through the window. The white cotton curtains danced on the breeze in somewhat etheric fashion. This room has always had a sense of softness to it. It feels uplifting, filled with light… Continue reading Making room for Hope in Infertility

Hello dear readers! Eric here again. I was thinking this morning about what to write for this week’s post, and as I often do, I started by looking back over the past few months to see “where we’ve been” in terms of topics and tales. And I realized, it’s been a pretty heavy few weeks.… Continue reading Of seashells and shoelaces…

Marianne is a 46 year old wife and mum to Lily, her wonderful 9 year old daughter. She lives in Edinburgh, Scotland and has worked in healthcare for 26 years. She is passionate about family, friends, travel and mental health. She’s taking part in this podcast to support her very good friends Cathy & Eric… Continue reading SSFE Podcast #6 Marianne Van De L’Isle

Hi everyone! Eric here this week with more musings from the <cue movie announcer voice> “male perspective”. In a lot of pop culture and conventional wisdom, men are characterized as being boorish, insensitive, and often emotionally flat-footed. And I know at least a few women who’d agree. I beg to differ. I don’t think this… Continue reading Guy stuff: How to be awesome to a male friend struggling with infertility

Cheers, dear readers,   I hope you are having an excellent week, my friends! It is a privilege to join you again for another installment of our Slow Swimmers & Fried Eggs blog (SS&FE), where we do our best to add value to you on your journey. My last two posts have been a bit… Continue reading “Being there” for our friends – 3-step process!

The brain is a wonderful thing. It can store volumes of information, controls our bodily movements like walking, talking, breathing as well as our thinking functions, emotions and how we behave. However much we have to be thankful to our brains for, they do need to be carefully managed to ensure that they are always… Continue reading Finding your expressive outlet for coping with infertility

It was 4pm on my last day at work when I got the call about my gestational diabetes diagnosis. I couldn’t believe it – “I eat really healthily”, I blubbed at the midwife as she went on to explain how that had little to do with it and it’s just hormones at play, messing with… Continue reading Coping with a fertility diagnosis

Cheers, dear readers, Last week, I excitedly shared that I would be meeting some amazing women for our first ever Global Sisterhood Summit – a meeting of the minds of various brave women who have survived their own ordeals with being childless not by choice. Many of us had undergone fertility treatments to try to… Continue reading Surviving Loss Together – The Power of Community & Awareness

Hi everyone. Eric here this week. As some of you know, the thoughts I share here are often prompted by strange thoughts or happenstance, and this week is a great example. Today’s post comes out of a classic Russian acoustic-rock song that popped into my youtube mix yesterday. Andrei Makarevich’s “Conversation on a Train” recounts… Continue reading Grab the wheel! Be an Active Participant in your Fertility Treatment