A friend is preparing for the arrival of her second baby and this makes my heart sing. A new baby is a reminder of all that is right and lovely and hopeful. A sweet, little being who will create beautiful chaos. Her soul is preparing to once again be transformed and I am simply looking forward to…
Infertility
Where do (IVF) babies come from daddy?
Charlie is at the sweet age when he says some funny shit. It’s astonishing the things that young children say but it’s only when you live with the running commentary of a little person that you appreciate the randomness of their thoughts. “Do giants eat houses for breakfast?” “Will I melt if I touch the…
Infertility. What not to say.
So here’s the thing. I often say silly stuff that I wish I hadn’t said. Not because I’m insensitive and thoughtless but because I don’t know what else to say and so I end up saying something profoundly stupid. There’s a certain irony in me writing a piece on “what not to say.” This is not…
Surviving the two week wait… IVF is a game of patience
As a natural optimist I thought IVF would be relatively straight forward. It was an opinion that did not last long. One successful IVF cycle was enough to crush the idealist in me I was naïve and uninformed in equal measure. It’s a complex process and I learnt very quickly – and about $8K later…
Sometimes it’s okay to give up
Last month I featured as a guest blogger over at Love from Mim. I wrote about #MyFiveThings and it was the five things I learnt from IVF. You can read it here. If you want. Anyway, one of those five things was that it is sometimes braver to give up than it is to keep…
So this is what two and a half feels like
A couple of months ago I uttered the fateful words “I’m loving this age” to my girlfriend. I was of course referring to motherhood and specifically toddlerhood. Our then 2 (+3 months) year old boys were in her backyard, bare bums, larking about under the sprinkler. Good times. The quintessential summer activity. My dear friend,…