So it turns out mothers have been feeling guilty for way longer than I thought. That they have been judging themselves as parents for decades. Weirdly I figured it was something that my generation of mothers invented. There’s this scene in the second episode of This Is Us that made me think of all of…
IVF
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…
The strength of mothers
It’s been a bit of an ordinary week in that I know two mothers having a really shit time right now. Really confronting stuff and each are hurting for different reasons. One of whom I’ve been friends with forever and a day, a school friend so I’m talking 30 years of history. Another I don’t know…
We are family
Flicking through my diary last week I came across the date 26 March. The square had a little silver heart sticker in it. A reminder that it would be two years to the day that my Nan passed away. Though she was 96, her death was a shock to our family. If you knew my Nan…
Mother’s Group saved my sanity
There’s nothing like having a newborn baby that you have no idea what to do with to give your confidence a bit of a shake, rattle and roll. Newborns are divine things but by God they are hard to figure out. Having spent a bunch of years in IVF I thought I was all over the “positive…