Fertility Blog + Podcast

It's 3am. You're staring at the ceiling. Your brain is wide awake, running through a scan that hasn't happened yet, a phone call that hasn't come, a conversation with a friend who hasn't even fallen pregnant.

If you know this hour, you already know what IVF anxiety at night feels like. One small qu...

If you have a rocky relationship with hope, or even hearing that word makes you cringe or roll your eyes, you are not alone. When you start trying to conceive, you feel hopeful. Then month after month, or round after round of IVF, it dwindles. And what makes it worse is that everyone around you keep...

I remember sitting at our kitchen table with a stack of paperwork from our fertility clinic in front of me. Fact sheets full of acronyms I didn't understand. Consent forms for procedures I had no idea about. And I remember thinking, how am I going to get through this if the paperwork alone is this o...

If you're in the thick of the two week wait right now, you already know the maths doesn't add up. Ten to fourteen days shouldn't feel like a hundred, but here we are.

I get asked about surviving the two week wait more than almost anything else in my coaching practice, and after nine IVF cycles of m...

You're staring at the invitation again. Pink or blue on the front, a date circled somewhere in your mind, and a pit in your stomach that won't shift no matter how many times you tell yourself to just get over it.

If you've been searching for how to decline a baby shower invitation without hurting a...

When was the last time you thought about something that wasn't IVF or your fertility? If you're sitting there struggling to remember, you're not alone, and you're not imagining it.

Somewhere along the way, without you even realising it, IVF stops being part of your life and becomes your whole life....

If you've typed "IVF burnout" into Google at 3am, you're not alone, and you're not broken. You're just in the thick of one of the hardest things a body and a mind can go through, and nobody handed you a manual for how to cope with IVF stress that doesn't leave you more exhausted than when you starte...

You told someone you're doing IVF and their face lit up like you'd just announced a pregnancy, or a puppy, or an engagement. "That's so exciting!" they said. And you smiled, said thanks, and felt absolutely nothing underneath it. Or worse, you felt dread.

If you've ever typed "why don't I feel exci...

You've just googled things I wish I knew before starting IVF at 11pm, again. Maybe your cycle failed and you're trying to work out what went wrong. Maybe you haven't started yet and you're trying to prepare for something no one can actually prepare you for.

I did nine IVF cycles. Eight of them didn...

You've done everything your IVF clinic told you to do. The monitoring scans, the injections, the blood tests at 7am, the supplements lined up on your kitchen bench like a tiny pharmacy. And still, you're lying awake at 2am typing "why did my IVF cycle fail" into Google, hoping this time an answer sh...

If you've ever Googled "how many IVF cycles before giving up" at midnight, this is for you.

Not because I have a clinical answer. But because I've been that person, sitting in the dark, wondering if the number of failed cycles I'd had was the universe telling me something. And I want to tell you wh...

Guilt has become the junk drawer of emotions.

You know the one… the drawer in your kitchen where everything ends up, because you don’t have the energy to find its real home. Rubber bands, takeaway menus, a random Allen key from Ikea… all shoved together under the label “miscellaneous.”

That’s exac...