A woman just wants what she wants. That phrase in an article my partner, Kemi, wrote recently struck a deep chord with me. It was about...
When I was preparing for my 1st IVF cycle, I was all about the statistics. I researched success rates and the like extensively. I shared some of my...
Taking time off work for my numerous hospital appointments. That was one of the biggest struggles for me…and I’ll bet a for whole lot of other women...
My heart breaks whenever I hear this from any woman, TTC or not. ‘Please, help me save my marriage…’ When I think back to how fragile...
I have a friend who recently unfriended/unfollowed a large number of her contacts on Facebook. Her reason? That they were either ‘behaving funny’, ‘not liking her...
December 31st, 2009…if there was a way I could have staved off the onset of the New Year, I would have. If there was a way...
For me, that was one of the most devastating outcomes of my PCOS (Poly Cystic Ovarian Syndrome) diagnosis…having to give up a lot of the food...
Ditch the calendar! That’s one of the things I wish I’d known back in my TTC days…that the calendar was of little or no use to...
When people talk about TTC, and infertility as a whole, a whole lot more emphasis is laid on women…how we feel, how we’re coping, how we’re...
IVF. Just a three-lettered acronym, but which means a multitude of things to different people. This article isn’t to address the very many ways we identify with that...
Last weekend, I attended the Pregnancy and Baby Loss Awareness Summit, organized by the awesome Tade Alalade‘s BeiBei Haven Foundation. I knew it was going to be...
BellaNaija is very pleased to announce the resumption of one of our favourite columns – Nicole the Fertile Chick! Our community benefited largely from the articles...
What better way to wrap up this series than to talk about that moment every TTC woman dreams about, when she gets her BFP!!! For those...
The one and only thing that gets under my skin, whenever I get a query or an e-mail, is when women ask me how to go...
I met Priscilla through a mutual friend in our TTC days. She had been trying for a few years longer than I, and she was one...
If we are to be very honest, we TTC women can be extremely difficult to deal with. A walk in the park, we most surely are...
Our IVF sisters will immediately know what this question refers to. It is the dilemma of many-an-IVF process – what day, exactly, to transfer the fertilized...
It’s the second Monday of the month, and time for another success story! This is another one of those stories that just made me smile from...
Ever since I started this column, I have received so many requests to write about miscarriage. But my answer has always been the same… I didn’t...
On this TTC journey, a lot of us have found ourselves giving up quite a lot, whether deliberately or inadvertently. And I don’t mean the obvious...
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