Are we there yet?
This is a list of all the infertility blogs I’ve found so far. It will never be perfect! For now it contains those who are actively seeking treatments and those that are not so active at this time. It also contains both primaries and secondaries, meaning that some might already be parents. If you want to know who is cycling right now, you can visit cyclesista. If you want to read a blog where an infertility doctor writes about his experiences, go here. I made another list of those lucky enough to succeed in getting pregnant (clinical pregnancy -> meaning there might be positive betas on this page) and parenting blogs are not included. After thinking about it I have also separated the adoption blogs as a category of it’s own. If you can think of an infertility blog that is missing or don’t like to be listed here, you can always drop me a line to ankaisa(at)gmail(dot)com. Descriptions have been taken from the blogs so if there is none, it means I could not find it. These can be changed, too, if you email me. All the links open to another window.
A Day in the Life… TTC Trials & tribulataions of trying to get pregnant, among other activities that keep us going along the way.
All I Need is One Good Egg I’m a 37 year old Virginia girl who married the man (38) of her dreams a little over 3 years ago. First came love, then came marriage….now where the hell is my baby carriage?? Infertility. This definitely was NOT part of my master plan! This blog chronicles the ups and downs (did someone say, Clomid?) and ins and outs (trans-vaginal ultrasound, anyone?) of our quest to create life. Our one and only IUI cycle included 65 consecutive days of stimulation drugs and was a bust. Now, it appears our first IVF cycle was a colossal waste of time as well. Waiting to figure out what comes next…
A Velvet Cage Welcome to my beautiful purgatory
Baby Proof I’ve been happily married to H for 8 years. We’ve been trying for a baby since May 2000. In the meantime, we’ve been spoiling rotten our Weimaraner, Warner. I’m an Engineer by profession and a wanna-be Mom by passion
Baby Quest Married to my soul mate in 2003. He is the most supportive person I have ever met, always putting me first. We live along the coast of Melbourne, Australia. We have been trying to have a child now for over 4 yrs and am currently going through IVF(2.5 yrs and 8 Transfers later). We were lucky enough to conceive our Baby Girl ~Chloe~in Nov 05, but my waters broke in Feb and we miss her so much. The Fight Continues!!
Baby Wanted: Apply Within I’m a 45 year old Canadian gal who met her best friend in 1998, married him in 2004 and now wants to complete the circle with children of our own.
Birch and Maple After 10 years in Scotland, we’ve upped sticks and moved to the US of A. Still married, still pagan, still infertile, still writing science fiction.
Boulder’s BoxCars IVF is a crap shoot & I’m trying to roll 2 sixes. Odds: Win=2.7778% Lose=97.2222%
Breach of Warranty I think my body is defective.
Ciao Baby Trials and tribulations of infertility…sigh. IVF/ICSI #1: March 2007-ET cancelled.FET #1 Summer 2007
Cindy’s Coffee Break My name is Cynthia Carlisle. I’m 32 years old, and married to a wonderful man named Brian! We live in Louisiana, but we’re from Texas originally. I like to write, read, make jewelry, renovate my house, and many other things in my spare time. I, also, love to journal about daily life, news events, rants, infertility, you name it! We don’t have any children yet, but we do have a puppy and kitty that pretty much *know* they are our children. There is some history about myself. I hope you enjoy my blogspot!
Churp, Churp I’m an oxymoron: a libidinous, infertile mom
Decorative Plumbing This blog is about my divine body’s abominable plumbing. I have severe endometriosis, a ruptured uterus, Asherman’s, crappy tubes, handicapped ovaries and old eggs. I have tried IVF. Twice. I am about to give up on kid #2. This just in: Missed Miscarriage (11 weeks) around Thanksgiving 2007.
Desperate to multiply I’m a 39 year old living in London with my husband of nearly two years. Attempt to multiply began “in sin” but, just after our wedding, tests revealed severe MF to be the culprit. We were instantly launched into a whole new world of acronyms - the land of ART. We’re currently trying to escape back to a world where full names rule.
Endo-a-Go-Go A mother diagnosed with endometriosis twelve years ago, parenting two daughters after adoption, now tempting fate as she slips on her boogie boots and gives IVF a swing on the ol’ infertility dance floor…..and is now considering donor eggs.
Finding the Next Trying to breathe effortlessly after infertility
Fortune Cookie Follies . . . . . . . . . May Luck be a Baby Tonight! Welcome to the Tale of Our Reproductive Misadventures.
Henry StreetWe’ve been trying to get pregnant and have a baby for over two years now. My husband, T, has a balanced translocation. After 3 miscarriages and 3 failed rounds of IVF with PGD, we are moving on to donor insemination due to poor response to medication. We have 4 failed dIUIs behind us. We changed donors and the 5th dIUI had some hope but ended in our fourth miscarriage.
In Due Time My infertility journey began in 2004, 3.5 years later, I have called it quits with M. Starting new in ‘08, in store has to be something great.
Infertile Myrtle’s Precarious Peregrination Through the Land of IVF My blog details my thoughts, feelings, and experiences as I begin my IVF journey.
Infertility SUCKS! A Blog documenting my wild journey to enter the Land of Pregnancy
i’ve got bad plumbing the frantic (in)fertility odyssey of a woman of 41 to get knocked up
Joys In My Life Zen and the Art of Secondary Infertility
Lesley’s Life & Other Happenings I am 34 and have been married for 9 years to my best friend, we have been in love for 12 years now. We have a 7 year old son who is the light of our lives. We have been ttc again for 6 years now and I have Endometriosis. I had Lap surgery 2 years ago and we tried 2 cycle’s of I.U.I’s shortly after the surgery with no postive results. Due to not being able to afford further treatment we are on our own again. Amazingly I just recently (July 07) had a miracle happen in the form of a pregnancy but lost the baby at 7 weeks. It’s been a long journey so far.. and there’s plenty more to come.
Life of Pixxiee Our journey through life, infertility and whatever might come next…
Little Beans 4 Me We’re a military family, married nearly 17 years, and we have 2 sweet yorkies named Rowdy and Poppy who on occasion eat shoes and electrical cords or bring live birds into the house! We’re infertility veterans now, having done clomid and timed intercourse, clomid with IUI, four IVFs (2 cancelled for poor response) and now we’ve moved onto Donor Eggs. We’ve done one fresh cycle with donor eggs which was a BFN. Now we’re moving onto our 15 frozen embies and may one or more of them become our child(ren)!
Losing The Baby Wait… Top 10 things that have not helped us in having a baby… 10. Sex… 9. Reading books about how to have a baby… 8. Non-doubling Hcg numbers… 7. Crying, bargaining, and begging… 6. Pillows under butt… 5. Being asked “When are you going to have a baby???” 4. Doctors… 3. BBT and OPK… 2. Holding other people’s babies… 1. JUST RELAXING……………………… Please refrain from suggesting any of the crap listed above. All other suggestions are welcome.
More Than My Share 35 years old, TTC#1, miscarriages in January and July of 2005. Septate uterus and homozygous MTHFR discovered. Pursuing surgery and treatment and hoping that one of these days we’ll be able to make it stick.
Mother Of None Me 29, Him 34. We have been trying to have a baby since August of 2001 and I have never been pregnant. We had a miserable first attempt at IVF and are now taking some time to decide how to proceed. This is the journal of how a mother of none tries to become a mother of one…
My journey towards my little miracle I never thought I would be here, still waiting! God has His perfect timing that I just can’t wrap my mind around. All I can do is look for grace, hold on to hope, and never waver in faith, while I wait for my little miracle, my child. This is my journey!
my no baby blues I . . . adore my husband, desperately want a baby, don’t ovulate, watch too much television, have recently started to treat my dog and cat like substitute children, actually like my job (this is a new one), always sing along with the radio, would rather spend the day in a comfortable chair with a good book than anywhere else in the world. This blog is my space to cry, complain, and try to get my head together a little bit. If you decide to keep reading, you can’t say you weren’t warned.
Out Damned Egg! Out I Say! Trying to catch just one good egg
Outlandish Notions I thought getting pregnant would be the easy part … but it hasn’t turned out that way.
PaintingChef I just turned 30 and I think I might want to be a mother but that isn’t going so well. I’m petrified of clowns, salad bars and horses. I can relate everything in the world to Beverly Hills, 90210 and I’ve pretty much resigned myself to the fact that eventually my husband will have me committed.
Pamplemousse Where to begin? 42, TTC for decades, two tries at IVF crashed and burnt before transfer, got PCOS and buggered tubes. First try with a known egg donor ended in an ectopic pregnancy, second try in Capetown was a bust, third go in October 2007 was a total disaster. I am ready, willing and able to talk trash about celebs, discuss gardening, moan about the UK and our crap weather and generally try to make it to the end of the working week without killing anyone. Nice cup of tea?
Project Genesis I’m an Orthodox Jew on the IVF road to, well, somewhere. Hopefully parenthood. We’re dealing with age, male infertility, Orthodoxy, finances, in-laws and one neurotic dog.
Reproductive Jeans One couple’s journey to pass on the family “jeans”
Searching for Zanity I’m 39 and never been pregnant. Since January 2005, I have had three failed IUIs, one laprascopy, one IVF that never got off the ground, one IVF that yielded two embryos that didn’t stick around, and one mother who died.
Sisyphus Manifesting my Futility, or, How To Burn Off Bad Karma. Therapeutic ramblings infused with introspective analysis, lightly peppered with occasional wit, a sprinkling of self-pity, and a dash of ‘tude. Served with fresh lemonade, of course.
Someone PLEASE, knock me up! husband…RE…santa claus…easter bunny…anyone…help… please
Southern Infertility Husband D and I are 31 years old, and have been trying to have kids for two years now. I’m anovulatory, diagnosed with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome, and prone to hyperstimulate. What will happen on this next cycle?
Spiraling into control Ex-pat American currently in Montreal, married to a Brit, trying desperately to keep a sense of humour while weathering some pretty big shit-storms. Currently on an adventure to have another child after our first was stillborn in June 2004
Square Peg, Round Whole Turns out making babies isn’t always easy. Trying to figure out where I fit in in the fertility continuum
Stirrup Queens and Sperm Palace Jesters We are two writers who have made it over the infertility chasm and are now writing a book in order to educate the non-infertile world on the feelings and needs of those experiencing infertility.
The Baby Dust Diaries Infertility. No one thinks it will happen to them. In reality, fertility - something we take for granted - is a miraculously coordinated orchestra of hormones and timing. In couples suffering from infertility (IF) a part (or parts) of the orchestra are not playing in key. Just one wrong note makes the seemingly simple task of procreation extremely difficult. This is our journey from IF to baby.
The Fertile Soul This was my journey through ivf where i learned a lot more about my body than i ever wanted to. Now this is just my journey through what remains of my life–life without children, the plain ordinary life.
The Great Baby Quest I am 26 years old and married to a man who was twice my age when we met (I was 19). We’ve been married since June 29, 2002 and have a wonderful dog named Bren. My husband has HIV which makes us effectively infertile, so we are using a sperm donor to help us extend our family.
The Impatient Patient I’m a 35 yo Australian living in Tasmania. We have undergone 13 cycles of ivf in our quest for a family. I have 1 husband, (the boy), 1 slightly loopy cat, (Lucy) & a very excitable Golden Retriever, Marley. I also have a very crappy attitude. So far we’ve lost 4 pregnancies in total, 1st loss of twin girls (Grover & Houdini) at 16 weeks in January 2005, loss of my b/g twins (Piper & Laine) at 23 weeks in March 2006, and not one but 2 miscarriages, in August and December 2006. I’m now on a quest to regain some semblance of sanity, enjoy my life again and have our own child…
The Sweet Life The story of our road to parenthood and other stuff. Take a back seat and enjoy the ride.
Weight n’ Cee I am married to my best friend. We once again have two, huge, drooling, loving dawgs. I have a job that I love most of the time. I’m blessed with awesome friends and family. I thought that what was missing was coming to terms with the fact that I am not going to be a biological mother. I realize now that I’m at terms with it, and am concentrating on being a kick ass evil stepmother, awesome wife, incredible friend and having an all-round meaningful life every single day.
What am I? If I knew what was wrong, I’d have some chance of working out who might be able to put it right…
Which Way to Baby? Our infertility journey began in February 2003. Since then, I’ve pretty much felt like that little metal ball in a pinball machine: frenetically slammed around by bad test results, failed cycles, more bad test results, a miscarriage and - did I mention? - bad test results. Oh, and of course, our recent failed adoption after a two-month match when the mom decided to take her baby home from the hospital. Round Two of infertility treatments, here we come. It’s now IVF for us.
whitechocolatebabydream Married (4 yrs now) to a very dishy boy. We were together for seven years before getting married (eloped, actually). Started the baby quest 5 years ago. Since then there has been 1 surgery (huge endometrioma, ovary removed, very traumatic), 5 unsuccessful IVFs (including 2 cancellations), 1 IVM (also unsuccessful). That leaves me a little jaded, very cynical, quite bitter, substantially poorer, and 10 lbs overweight.
Worrier/Warrior After a miscarriage and over a year of trying (and failing) to get pregnant, I find out I have diminished ovarian reserve. Not great news when you’ve only just turned 33 and hoping to start a family.
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Thank you for taking the time to make this list.
Thank you for putting me on this list. Not sure how you found me but you are too sweet.
thanks for listing me - this is an amazing lot of work. i just linked you.
Hey! Thanks for adding me to your list! I appreciate it, and hope to “see” you on my site sometime.
Wow! I never expected to make anyone’s “list.” Thanks for adding me.
I’m on the list too…shooohoooo! Thanks for listing me, I’m gonna link your list on my blog
. It’s a great list really with a lot of blogs I have never seen before. Will check them on the weekend!
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Thanks for adding me to the list. It’s good company to be in. There are a lot of blogs here that I’m definitely going to have to check out soon!
Thanks for including me on your list!! I can’t wait to sink my teeth into all of these wonderful blogs!
Wow! I have no idea who you are or how you found me, but thank you for including me in your list.
I’ve just had to update my description because of recent developments…
Thank you for listing me…. I appreciate it!
TWW
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Thanks for adding my blog to your list! I just thought I’d let you know that we’re now adopting, so I’m changing “categories”, so to speak from infertile to adoptee (adoptor?). Thanks again!
Sincerely,
Natalee-Just Gotta Hang On
Terrific list! Thanks for taking the time!
Wow, what a list! Thanks for adding me!
Thank you for taking the time to make that list! Although, I dislike having to go through infertility, at least, I have tremendous support of this community. I have added a ton of infertility blogs to my blog (www.cindy’scoffeebreak.blogspot.com). Please visit me! Leave me a message if your infertility blog isn’t shown, so that I can add you as well.
Sincerely,
Cindy
Thanks for making this list! youve helped me network to read about others in my situation! Can you add me to it also?
Hey I just started a blog about my struggle with PCOS (and life with 2 foster kids…I’m just a foster parent not in fostering for the sake of adoption, thats not something we can do in Canada). could you add me?
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