It is easy to feel disempowered when you are going through a fertility challenge, you trust your FS (fertility specialist) and give them the power to suggest what drugs you should be taking and then you are on their time schedule. It is amazing how we place doctors and specialists on the pedestal and do not question their decisions. Well learning from our fertility challenge we too felt this way, we did everything humanly possible and we kept going attempt after attempt expecting a different res… Continue

When you go through a crisis, this impacts all aspects of your life, emotional, physical, spiritual, and all your relationships. This is when you are in 'flight/fight' mode and you are simply reacting to what is right in front of you.

Take infertility for instance, you know you want your body to transform and yet may have reservations about what this will really mean to your looks, your confidence and your figure. Or perhaps you may still carry past issues related to your miscarriage/loss of ch… Continue

Sperm created in a lab offers new hope

Sperm has been created in a lab for the first time using stem cells and a complicated process of growth and development the news reports today . It is nothing short of miraculous !

What amazes me is the speed at which all of this is developing , and new avenues explored . When we started our journey to create a family I remember peoples reaction to us having to go through IVF , this unknown , untalked about phenomena . That was only seven an… Continue

'Fertility Coaching'
Can it help women conceive?
The Independent 24th June, 2008
When Anya Sizer was enduring IVF, her sessions of 'Fertility coaching' were a lifeline. Emma Jones reports on this new alternative therapy

Anya Sizer's garden is scattered with toys – just the way she always wanted it. Yet there were moments when this happy scene with Hope, five, and Barney, 22 months, was a distant dream. Soon after marrying at 23, she and her husband Damion started trying for a baby. But when mon… Continue

I am currently reading the fantastic book "when you are falling , Dive " lessons in the art of living by Mark Matousek . A book of interviews with people who have faced or are facing some of lifes toughest challenges and how they deal with the emotional effects .

One of the chapters I have just read is an interview with Daniel Goleman , the man who wrote Emotional intelligence , and who is now doing a lot of work on what he has coined Social intelligence . What struck me in this , is the intera… Continue