TTC

Why did you have kids? Or want them?

May 5, 2013

I read this article titled “what not to say to a childless woman” by Wendy Squires at www.theage.com.au today and it basically became my best friend. Because it says so much that I’d love to say but worry that by saying I might hurt the feelings of someone who meant well. I had no idea [...]

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When a Kardashian baby makes you think about stuff a little too much.

January 1, 2013
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Yesterday {was it then or was I that far out of the loop} it hit the interwebs that Kim Kardashian is expecting. The world is abuzz, the gossip world, that is. It got me thinking about Khloe. Khloe who doesn’t have a baby yet. Khloe who has seen two siblings have babies since she expressed [...]

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Ranting About Ovaries.

November 24, 2012

It’s been a while. You’d be forgiven for thinking I had given up or been secretly successful. that happens sometimes, did you know. Bloggers with fertility and conception issues just stop talking about it because they’ve won and can’t say so yet or they’ve lost and their defeated heart just won’t let them say any [...]

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Stepping Up

October 30, 2012
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Stepping up this week is all about the gym. Going more often. Working harder. I’m increasing the weights and generally picking up the intensity at the gym. And it feels great. You know that first moment in the morning when you extend your arms and legs and just stretch…? It’s like that. But my whole body is [...]

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2012 IS their year.

June 4, 2012

They’re everywhere. The successful tales of 2012 being THE year for them. New pregnancies, pregnancies coming to fruition, new bubs. They’re everywhere. Or maybe, it just feels like it to me. There is nothing worse, I don’t think than starting to lose hope. Welcome to the halfway point of 2012. The cut off for having a [...]

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Empty spaces

May 13, 2012

I have a Mother. I celebrate her. I wish I was a Mother. I’m not. Today we celebrate Mother’s and so I partake. Celebrating the woman who not only delivered me so perfectly into this world but who prepared me so wonderfully for it. My Mother is everything I want for myself in so many ways; Independent, [...]

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Things you CAN say to someone who is TTC.

April 29, 2012

I wrote this post the other day about the weird things people say when you’re childless and almost 30 or WORSE, they find out you are trying to conceive. Chantelle said, please, tell me what I can say, that would be helpful. Or something along those lines. I’m paraphrasing obviously. Chantelle said it all elegantly [...]

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ASS out of U and ME

April 24, 2012

I was reading that post above on the Seven Cherubs facebook wall about the old ‘What, don’t you have a TV’ comment that people toss around for those with large families {though some ladies with two children had been asked the same thing. What? That doesn’t even make sense}. It got me thinking of all [...]

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Things they say are bad for you when you’re trying to conceive.

April 17, 2012

I’ve been doing some reading around the old interwebs. I was looking for some advice and a little bit of a scare to get my back into gear in relation to cutting out the booze and caffeine. Turns out there are a LOT of foods/drinks/random things you should eat/drink/take while trying to get pregnant. Who knew? [...]

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Silence is, errr, something.

April 14, 2012

I love silence. Quiet makes me happy. Uninterrupted moments of no sound. Soft breezes and cooling afternoons are everything, on a scale of one to everything. But as I sit, quietly, in the quiet it’s there. A reminder. A taunt. That it should be noisy here by now. A child. Or two. Perhaps we should [...]

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Resentment, I got it.

March 6, 2012

This post started as an idea here. This post isn’t even really about Lori. It’s not even about abortion. This post is about me. Lori’s post bought something so sharply to the surface for me I had to address it here, in my place for addressing such things. As I sat in a cafe reading [...]

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Surprise. Heart break.

January 12, 2012

I visited a lot of blogs tonight. A lot of your blogs. Some others too. But, a lot of blogs. I enjoyed diving into worlds where I had never been before. Finding out what made them tick. The hard part, for me, in the situation I am in, is that it’s hard, sometimes, to read [...]

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Here we are.

January 1, 2012

I’ve been browsing through blogs on my phone, so excuse the lack of comments. It’s everywhere. The hope and promise of a new year. I have it. I’ve had it. I think I do anyway. This is THE year for me baby making wise. This is the year that when April rolls around, whatever the [...]

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Frozen. Suspended. Waiting.

November 27, 2011

For a while now I haven’t posted about our TTC path {don’t you hate when people say journey!? I do, sometimes. So I don’t}. It’s not because having children is now off the agenda. No way. It’s still very much part of the plan. And in a way it felt like I was opening myself up [...]

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Infertile/Broken Hearted? We’ll exploit YOU!

October 11, 2011

I read this article. It’s about the scare tactics and emotional poking at wounds that occurs in advertising fertility clinics. The author states that advertising is designed to be emotive, that is advertising’s purpose after all. To emote and therefore drive action. We all know this. But questions is it okay to use emotions in such an emotional area? The author [...]

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Sometimes life happens

October 3, 2011

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about my relationship. How it came about and what it still has in store. I didn’t plan on getting married until I was at least thirty. So I don’t feel off track. I don’t feel like I’m behind others because we don’t have kids. For me, it was never [...]

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When it is not ok & you thought it would be.

July 15, 2011

There are times in life when you think everything will be ok because it has to be. Because you just don’t know how you would keep going if it wasn’t. And on those days it can go either way. But you never really believe that until it goes badly.  Until it ends and you are [...]

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A Real Day in the Life of a TTC’er.

June 29, 2011

Yesterday I woke up. 9.30am or something close. Not too shabby. 12 hours of sleep and I had shaken the virus type things from the day before swiftly, if not yet wholly. I lounged in my quiet house, luxuriating in the silence, the peacefulness of it. I rose slowly and took a shower that went [...]

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So today I kinda lost my shit… Really.

June 16, 2011

I spoke to a lady. Who is breaking up with her partner. This lady, she is known to me, but not well. At most we’d be acquaintances. I don’t even remember her partner’s name until she says it. Then she goes into detail of him losing his mind {my guess is undiagnosed bi-polar given her description} and [...]

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I know what you’re saying…

May 22, 2011

I drink too much. I’m too fat. I even started smoking again! And what’s with the partying lately..? I should try harder. I shouldn’t work as hard. I have to put it first. Put it out of my mind. I have to let it go. I have to slow down. Should look for a specialist. I should [...]

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