Guy stuff: How to be awesome to a male friend struggling with infertility

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

Finding your expressive outlet for coping with infertility

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

Surviving Loss Together – The Power of Community & Awareness

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

Grab the wheel! Be an Active Participant in your Fertility Treatment

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

In Infertility find Your Voice and inspire Others to find Theirs

Cheers, dear readers,   It is with great pleasure, mixed emotions, and a heart of gratitude that I share with you a new chapter opening up here at Slow Swimmers & Fried Eggs (SS&FE). After almost four and a half amazing and inspiring years of writing this blog full-time as an unusual dynamic duo, Eric… Continue reading In Infertility find Your Voice and inspire Others to find Theirs