Category: Slow Swimmers & Fried Eggs

Hello everyone, Eric here again.   And I’m having a bad day. I mean, a really lousy day. One of those days where it feels like absolutely everything is going wrong. So in the midst of all this, I cast my mind back to the toughest days on our infertility journey, and I am reminded… Continue reading My Three Pillars – The Very Specific Things that Get Me Through My Worst Days

I’ve been compelled to write this post on letting go all week – it’s been a long, hard week of disappointment, confusion and fear as we head into our 4th embryo transfer and I’m hoping that by the time I come to the end of writing this post, I will be a bit lighter, a… Continue reading Let it go, Let it go! Releasing control during IVF

Cheers, dear readers, I’m poking my head back here at Slow Swimmers and Fried Eggs (SS&FE) after a recent medical scare, which brings me to the main topic of this post: Our mental and emotional health as we traverse this infertility journey. I have been blown away as well as concerned and bursting with empathy… Continue reading Infertility and Suicide: Bravery + Why Rising Tides Lift All Boats

This quote has gotten me through many a dark time and I’m still holding onto it now. Even though I’m pregnant, this isn’t the end, as the end for me will be holding a healthy baby in my arms; or at least that’s the end I’m hoping for.   Before getting pregnant with our final… Continue reading Infertility : Everything will be ok in the end. If it’s not ok, it’s not the end.

There’s nothing like being made redundant to shake up your routine!   Once fear has subsided you have an opportunity to reassess, recalibrate, reprioritise and refocus, which is so precious and valuable and can open up a whole new way of life and way of working that you never thought possible!   This is the… Continue reading Shake it up! Breaking free from infertility habits

Cheers, dear readers, How does one decide when enough is enough? How much emotional and physical trauma can a person or a couple withstand? When is the right time to let go of a dream? These are the types of questions that Eric and I were pondering after our second IVF attempt did not work.… Continue reading Taking advice from Mr. Spock

Hello again Internet! Eric here this week with what may seem like a hard statement to fathom, but I’m going to throw it out there anyway. I’ve been talking to a number of friends and associates who have been through infertility treatment, and I kept hearing something that Cathy and I tried to do, but… Continue reading Carpe Diem! How you can enjoy your time during infertility treatment

Kathleen Guthrie Woods is a full-time writer and editor based in San Francisco, California in the USA. She creates advertising and marketing materials for a broad range of clients and writes feature articles as a freelancer. You may know her as a regular contributor to Life without Baby , where she writes the… “It Got Me Thinking…”… Continue reading SSFE Podcast #1 – Kathleen Guthrie Woods

Cheers, dear readers, With Thanksgiving upon us, the power of positive thinking cannot be over-stated. I can tell you from personal experience that my entire world started to turn around when I took the focus off of what I lacked, and started to focus instead on being grateful for what I did indeed already possess.… Continue reading A Story of Gratitude: My Transformation Story from Depression Related to Infertility to Thanksgiving

Cheers, dear readers, I hope that you are enjoying our blog posts thus far, as we work to help reduce both the silence and the stigma around the conversation of infertility. Receiving the diagnosis of being infertile while trying to create a family can be shocking, devastating and make couples have a feeling of hopelessness.… Continue reading Bursting with Excitement !