In this month’s edition of Fertility Road magazine, I’ve written an article entitled Fertility Clinics: the good, the bad and the ugly. I should know. I’ve been to nearly a dozen in my time – I could write the Lonely Planet guide to fertility clinics (and they can be...

Whilst I understand the importance of brand, I don’t want to be labelled. I say this because this week Suzanne Moore wrote a thought-provoking article in The Guardian http://fb.me/1aFtxYG7t in which she said that motherhood, or the lack of it, seems to have become the...

I’ve started to wonder whether a book could actually be better than a baby. This week I got a great review from Kate Brian, author of The Complete Guide to IVF, and the scales totally tipped. In fact, the sense of validation made me feel as if my struggle to have a...

And I’m not talking Jimmy Choo. A while ago my partner and I swapped our big house outside London for a tiny flat in Covent Garden. It’s heaven in a shoebox. The whole living out of London thing was one of our many attempts to conquer our infertility. We thought that...

I’ve been thinking about New Year’s resolutions. I know it’s only the 29th of December but there’s nothing I like more than a resolution. I want to be brave enough to make Number 1 on the list: Give up IVF. And if that sounds like IVF is an addiction as much as drugs...

In her Christmas blog, Mindful Muma-To-Be quoted from my book, the pursuit of motherhood: 'I long to experience the excitement of the family going out to buy the tree and decorating it to the sound of cheesy Christmas classics… This year we've decided to go away....

I hate miracle baby stories. Well, if you were me, you would. After nearly a decade of fertility treatment: miscarriage, biochemical and ectopic pregnancies, surely I deserve a miracle? Yet, as time goes on, I’m getting increasingly convinced it’s never going to...

I’m terrified of Twitter – but, it’s ok, I’m not alone. James Arthur is terrified and if Peaches Geldof and Katie Hopkins aren’t terrified by now, they probably should be. My own terror, however, is for another reason. I only started tweeting last month and I have...

It’s time to talk about failure. The two thirds majority I wish I wasn’t part of. Lisa Jardine, the outgoing Chair of the Human Fertilisation Embryology Authority (the HFEA to us infertile aficionados) did a series of interviews at the beginning of last month in which...

Oprah Winfrey has been in the UK promoting her new film, The Butler. Last Saturday she was on the Jonathan Ross Show with her co-star, Forest Whitaker. It was interesting to watch them at work. Whitaker gentle and unassuming with that chameleon-like quality that is...

Ok, three blogs in and it’s time for a confession. I am harbouring a dirty secret and its Daily Mail Online. Every night before I go to sleep, I spend a guilty fifteen minutes reading the latest celebrity news. Just Kim, Miley and Me. On Thursday night , I read that...

Last week was the first ever Infertility Awareness Week (28 October-2 November) which culminated with the now annual Fertility Show at Olympia. I’ve seen the adverts on the tube for a few years but I have never dared go before. Being infertile is one thing. Walking...

There’s writing a book about infertility…then there’s publishing it….and then there’s Grazia… This week I accepted an offer of a feature in Grazia magazine on my story (well part of my story) about infertility. I have been tentatively telling people for a while now...