Tag: health
What to expect when you’re not expecting XXV: The end
I can remember the exact moment when Kim and I decided we were ready to have kids. We’d talked about it vaguely but we decided for real on a trip to Europe in 2014.
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What to expect when you’re not expecting XIX: The mendacity of hope
As I write this it’s 5.30pm on a Sunday afternoon. It’s the day before we do egg collection. It’s been 26 days since we began this IVF round. It’s been the most hopeful round so far. But hope can always betray you, and when it does it hurts more than if you’d just been pessimistic the whole time.
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What to expect when you’re not expecting XVIII: The Sharps Container
When you’ve made a commitment to writing out your story, and then that story ends up being way longer than you anticipated, you go searching for metaphors to represent what you’re going through because metaphors are one of the great pieces of human story telling.
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What to expect when you’re not expecting XVII: it’s Fertility Week and I still don’t have a baby
A memory came up on my Facebook feed this morning. “Kim, we care about you and the memories that you make on Facebook. We thought that you’d like to look back on this post from 2 years ago”.
Read MoreWhat to expect when you’re not expecting XVI: Where have ya been Dave?
Two and a half months ago I had a shitty birthday when our most recent IVF round got called off. I wrote about that already. But the part I left out of the story was going to the vege market immediately after the IVF clinic.
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What to expect when you’re not expecting XI: Next please
When you think about IVF, you don’t tend to think about it in stages. IVF is the term we use when we talk about the process of getting a baby using science.
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What to expect when you’re not expecting X: The Great wall of Gyna
Back to hopeful again. Boy. We had our follow up appointment with the specialist to find out what the hell happened and why we had the unforgivingly named “total fertilisation failure”.
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What to expect when you’re not expecting IX: The Mental Load
There’s this amazing web comic floating around that talks about the mental load that women are often asked to bear when it comes to household chores.
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What to expect when you’re not expecting VIII: Having a break from Ms Ivy Eff’s wild ride
So I had it reported back to me that the last post was really sad. And I was sad. Just to get this out of the way early and prepare any readers still with us, things haven’t improved.
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What to expect when you’re not expecting VII: The baby room
If we go back a few years, when Kim and I thought that we’d be popping out children like we saw most of our friends were, we’d see Kim and me slowly accruing stuff that a baby would need.
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What to expect when you’re not expecting VI: Some good news for a change
Christ this is some rollercoaster. It’s way more exciting than the rollercoaster they had at that Footrot Flats themed park that used to exist in Auckland. That was the first rollercoaster I ever went on.
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What to expect when you’re not expecting V: Round II. Fight
Kim and I have discussed a lot whether this is our second round of IVF or our first since we had to abort at such an early stage last time. Can you say abort when talking about IVF? I’m not sure.
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What to expect when you’re not expecting IV: the waiting game
So it’s been nearly two months since my last post. In that time we haven’t magically discovered a baby growing in the garden; so this isn’t the update where we all go wahey! Success!
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What to expect when you’re not expecting III: Not great news
So you might have read my piece, and/or Kim’s piece about our adventures through infertility. It’s been a hard road. And we had just started the next chapter which was a cycle of IVF.
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What to expect when you’re not expecting II (vaginas)
If my doctor had sat me down when my husband and I decided to start trying for a baby and said “Kim, this is going to be a hard road and also you’ve got two vaginas”, I would have doubled over and laughed at the absurdity of it.
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What to expect when you’re not expecting
I’m not a huge fan of revealing too much personal information on a blog that is read by 10s of people but here we go, this is as personal as it gets. Also, this post may get super long. Sorry.
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Doctors against obesity
By Nicole Skews. This blog is an x-post from Coley’s blog which you can find at www.tangerina.co.nz
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Spring clean your insides
I’ve got a challenge for you – and before you decide to ignore me and go read some other intellectually stimulating blog, just give me a chance… I dare you to try a detox.
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