Category: Slow Swimmers & Fried Eggs

This morning a friend of mine put up a touching social media post paying tribute to her cute dachshund that had recently passed away. It was very sad news since I know how much her dog meant to her. It got me thinking about our furry friends, the loving bonds we share with them and… Continue reading Do Your Furry Friends Give You Emotional Support During Infertility?

Cheers, dear readers, This week, I am going to tackle yet another taboo subject: intimacy and sexual intercourse. How does dealing with infertility and the possible ensuing treatment affect our intimate lives, our relationship with our partners and our own happiness? Anyone who has had trouble getting or staying pregnant knows that infertility is hard… Continue reading Infertility & Intimacy

 

It takes two to make a baby, whether naturally or otherwise! However, the male side of things is often seen as the “silent partner” in the whole process. If you get pregnant naturally, all the emphasis immediately falls to the woman and her expanding tummy, and even in assisted fertility, doctors tend to direct questions… Continue reading Male perspective on Infertility

Cheers, dear readers, In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) children are certainly some of the most wanted and sought after children on the planet. Anyone who has taken the steps to go through the often-grueling aspects of IVF to have a child has a lot of courage, strength and determination (and financial know-how to figure out how… Continue reading Lessons in surviving the strangest day of your life

  Catherine-Emmanuelle Delisle is a Canadian teacher and creator of femmesansenfant.com, a french blog intended to inform, rally and celebrate the lives of women without children by choice or by circumstance. Her website audience grew as Catherine-Emmanuelle Delisle posted online a series of fascinating video interviews of childless and childfree women (and men), all of… Continue reading SSFE Podcast #7 – Catherine-Emmanuelle Delisle

Happy New Year one and all!   Welcome to the first Slow Swimmers and Fried Eggs post of 2018! Wow, what a difference a year makes. I never thought I’d be writing a blog, living in a beautiful house or be facing redundancy this time last year, but here I am and all those things… Continue reading Birthday blogging – fertile thoughts as I turn another year older

Cheers, dear readers,   My how time flies! I am surprised to learn that we are fast approaching a massive milestone of the 40th anniversary (and thus birthday) of the first In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) baby ever born: Louise Brown, July 25, 2018. I remember as a youngster learning the term “test tube baby” and… Continue reading Practicing Responsibility As We Approach the 40th Anniversary of the 1st IVF Baby

I’d planned to write on a different topic this week but found myself drawn to the subject of expectation as I looked around at my unrecognizable house strewn with laundry, dirty plates and half-drunk cups of tea. What we expect from life and how it turns out to be can look vastly different – I… Continue reading Piling on the pressures during infertility

Today I am dedicating my blog to National Infertility Awareness Week and to the launch of Justine Brooks Froelker’s latest book The Mother of Second Chances, based on her blog Ever Upward releasing on April 17th. For five weeks 24 amazing women will share their stories of infertility and loss as part of this incredible… Continue reading National Infertility Awareness Week and the Ever Upward Blog Tour