Bravely does it…
So here I am finally getting ready to make my site go live and this feels like the scariest thing I have done in my life! This book has taken three years to write and it is strange to think that I...
View ArticleSo near and yet so far
In the six hours since the MLTG page went live on the world wide web, it already has 50 likes, 14 shares and I have 4 orders for my book! How cool is that? And yet it is the 3 comments made on the...
View ArticleLet’s Remember to Talk x
From Remembrance Day and National Duvet Day to Stoptober and Movember, there’s always a day or week set aside to remember, celebrate or raise awareness of one thing or another. It is really pleasing...
View ArticleBetween a rock and a hard place is a very hard place to be.
Having just been rejected by a publisher, following two rejections from agents last month, I am, as you can imagine, feeling a little flat. Yet not because my book has been rejected, believe it or not...
View ArticleWisdom in one so young
So this morning I sadly received a text from a friend whose second IVF cycle failed. BFN as they say (well they say Big Fat Negative though admittedly the ‘F’ always meant something else in this...
View ArticleMost couples will try anything!
So today, 22 January, is officially the day most New Years Resolutions are given up. I’ve long since given up giving up things for the New Year as without a goal I’m not very good at maintaining them,...
View ArticleZephyr’s playmates are finally on the way!
http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/Julia-Bradbury-im-44-pregnant-4984899 Julia Bradbury was so desperate to “provide a playmate” for her son Zephyr she underwent 5 rounds of IVF and at age 44 is now...
View ArticleAt what cost a child?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2926471/Woman-appeals-donations-strangers-afford-IVF-refused-treatment-NHS.html This story is in the paper today about a woman whose only hope of a child is...
View ArticleKim Kardashian – the perfect case study? Discuss.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2904061/I-want-baby-bad-s-not-happening-Kim-Kardshian-struggle-conceive-second-child-husband-Kanye-West.html Could it possibly be that as well as being an...
View ArticleNeverending story
I recently joined a number of Facebook groups concerned with Secondary Infertility and it’s like looking in a mirror online. For three years I felt so alone with my guilt and feelings of greed at...
View ArticleYou are not alone
It’s National Fertility Awareness Week in the US this week and the Secondary Infertility Facebook pages are full of girls wanting to raise the profile of both Infertility and Secondary Infertility. It...
View ArticleForgive yourself this week
There’s literally no escaping it. The news is everywhere. There are follow up stories, features, in-depth analysis, write ups, opinions, photographs…….we have a Princess! Princess Charlotte...
View ArticleNew Chapter Release
http://morelovetogivebyhelendavies.com/sample-chapters/chapter-15-staring-at-the-face-of-frightening-statistics/ So those who know me well, probably won’t be surprised to learn that I’ve started...
View ArticleWill it always hurt this much?
I was recently asked by someone who was hurting from a failed attempt ‘Will it always hurt this much?’ My first gut response was to blurt out yes with my next breath, but fortunately I was able to hold...
View ArticleThat look on his face.
As much as sitting on the loo staring at the dark streak of blood on the paper in my hands gave me a kick in the stomach, that was nothing compared to the pain of having to tell my husband. It wasn’t...
View ArticleHello my old friend – Fertility Road Magazine
The waiting room at Hull IVF Clinic is a very strange place. For some reason they have all the chairs in a square, facing each other, which is strange given most clients don’t want to look at anyone...
View ArticleIn their shoes – and I don’t like it!
Each time my treatment failed or my period came, I became hardened to that pain and became deaf to my loved ones soothing words. Their sympathetic repetitive phrases used to drive me mad and the...
View ArticleProgress? I’m not sure
So what’s happening? Well this all started with writing down my journey to help another couple faced with SI. Then it became about achieving an ambition to have a book published which then turned...
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