12) The last throw of the dice.
What do you do when you think that you are at the end of the Fertility Road and you have one last throw of the dice? In this episode Trish and I took the hard decision to put our fertility treatment ...
2 Mar 202120min
11) Superstitions, diets and belief in anything
We tried everything. Wacky diets, rituals, natural remedies, strange looking herbs. Some things for 2 days, some things for 5 years, will we ever know what made the difference? I delve deep into the ...
23 Feb 202126min
10) What's the alternative ?
This episode discusses alternatives during fertility treatment. Adoption, sperm and egg donation - anything that may give us the family we so desire. The reality of this can be difficult, and there a...
17 Feb 202125min
9) Loss - A male perspective on miscarriage
You have to have something in the first place to lose it, and that in a way is crueller. This episode discusses a difficult topic - loss. Nothing can prepare you for the pain of a miscarriage, but i...
10 Feb 202125min
8) Needles and bruises, endless IVF cycles (sustaining hope and routines)
Onto another attempt after a negative pregnancy, we fast forward through 3 years and countless rounds and embryos, it feels like an endless cycle. How do you sustain hope when your results and biolog...
2 Feb 202125min
7) Embryo Transfer and Hope
As first timers, we couldn’t be anything but hopeful on our first Embryo Transfer day. I talk about the process of our blastocyst being transferred and how it can all seem overwhelming and confusing -...
27 Jan 202123min
6) Egg Collection and fertilisation - hopefully
So we’re at the point in our IVF journey on Egg Collection day, there is a nervous wait as the female goes under anaesthetic, the man normally gets the call to do his bit and you anxiously wait. Th...
19 Jan 202121min
