My fertility journey has changed many things in my life. Interestingly that also includes having changed my relationship with food. As someone with polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS), managing my diet is an important part of my lifestyle. My ‘PCOS’ diagnosis came very soon after my husband and I started trying to conceive, and it… Continue reading Eating for Well For Your Fertility
Category: Slow Swimmers & Fried Eggs
One Year On: Key Lessons From the Infertility Journey
It is crazy to believe that a whole year has passed since I first began writing for the Slow Swimmers and Fried Eggs blog. What an unexpected year it has turned out to be! It is as if the pandemic slowed life down for a while, but then somehow time sped up again and now… Continue reading One Year On: Key Lessons From the Infertility Journey
Dealing with the Due Date After Loss
“I wanted to find a way to remember her, to celebrate her short life, and to tell the world that she had been here and that she was loved. After all, isn’t this what we all want for our babies gone-too-soon?” ~ Liz Mannegren The baby that we lost because of an ectopic pregnancy… Continue reading Dealing with the Due Date After Loss
Infertility and Spending Time with Other People’s Children
Children are so easy to love. Their innocence, playfulness and curiosity are refreshing to be around, even now in the midst of my own fertility challenges and experiences with pregnancy loss. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that I was the eldest child and the first grandchild in my family, which meant… Continue reading Infertility and Spending Time with Other People’s Children
Build a life you’re proud of – one day at a time !
Cheers, dear readers, I’m writing you today with a happy heart! Last night was a bit of a breakthrough for me – an infertile “barren” woman’s moment of enjoying a small sweet victory. And believe me, I’ll take all of the little (and big) victories that I can! We all can! No one told… Continue reading Build a life you’re proud of – one day at a time !
The Things we’ve handed down
I wonder who you’ll look like. Will your hair fall down in curls? Will you be a momma’s boy? Or daddy’s little girl? Are you a poet or a dancer, a devil or a clown? Or some strange new combination of the things we’ve handed down? – Marc Cohn, The Things We’ve Handed Down Hello… Continue reading The Things we’ve handed down
Your IVF survival guide
Having been through 2 full rounds of IVF and 4 frozen embryo transfers, I feel like now would be a good time to draw up a few survival tips from our experience. Everyone’s experience of IVF will be slightly different but there are some common themes so if you’re going through it or about to… Continue reading Your IVF survival guide
Fertility Vocabulary
Embarking on the journey of assisted conception, you will come across an array of words and abbreviations that can make the journey even more confusing than it already is, so this post goes out to everyone at the start of their journey; whether you’re about to have your first doctor’s appointment or just contemplating giving… Continue reading Fertility Vocabulary
Don’t Forget Your Annual Checkups (OB-GYN and otherwise)
Cheers, dear readers, I hope that you have been enjoying our latest audio interviews with authors and advocates Lisa Manterfield and Mary Wong. It was an absolute pleasure interviewing both of them and getting to really dig in to their experiences as well as their wisdom and even humor as it relates to each… Continue reading Don’t Forget Your Annual Checkups (OB-GYN and otherwise)
The words we choose (THEY MATTER!)
Hi Internets! Eric here again, and I’m not going to lie, this week is kind of a tough one. It’s been tough for me to write, and it may be kind of tough to read. But I think it’s a subject worth talking about. As many of you have probably heard, there’s a lot of… Continue reading The words we choose (THEY MATTER!)