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Infertility. What not to say.

March 20, 2017 By Tracey Leave a Comment

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…

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Filed Under: IVF Tagged With: adoption, advice, family, fertility, Infertility, IVF, IVF clinics, lessons, TTC

Surviving the two week wait

Surviving the two week wait… IVF is a game of patience

July 31, 2016 By Tracey 3 Comments

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…

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Filed Under: IVF Tagged With: baby, family, fertility, Infertility, IVF, IVF clinics, life, TTC, two weeks wait

roller coaster

Sometimes it’s okay to give up

May 29, 2016 By Tracey 1 Comment

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…

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Filed Under: Inside Thoughts Out Loud Tagged With: fertility, giving up, goals, Infertility, IVF, IVF clinics, Julia Leigh, lessons, life, love, quitting, relationships

So this is what two and a half feels like

January 19, 2016 By Tracey 2 Comments

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,…

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Filed Under: Inside Thoughts Out Loud, Motherhood Tagged With: disequilibrium, family, fatherhood, fertility, friendship, Infertility, IVF, joy, love, motherhood, tantrums, toddlers

Running away

I have one child not an only child

July 31, 2015 By Tracey Leave a Comment

When Charlie was about a year old I was asked by someone when baby number 2 was coming along.  I wasn’t at all offended by this question and I didn’t know this person especially well so my response was fairly neutral, I didn’t go into any details but simply explained that we wouldn’t be having…

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Filed Under: Inside Thoughts Out Loud, IVF, Motherhood Tagged With: faith, family, fertility, Infertility, IVF, life, love, motherhood, only child, pregnancy, siblings

Fragmented embryos

November 10, 2011 By Tracey Leave a Comment

The last transfer I had was a bit complicated, some little hiccup with my cervix meant that I had to have a general anaesthetic for what should be a 1 minute procedure.  To avoid this happening for this transfer, when I had egg pick up a few days ago Dr M put a little probe…

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Filed Under: Inside Thoughts Out Loud, IVF Tagged With: embryo transfer, faith, fate, fertility, IVF, IVF clinics, pregnancy, TTC, two weeks wait

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