Infertility-related blogs which are not personal accounts.

Email me at infertilefantasies at gmail dot com if you have anything to add.

• International Infertility Film Festival - third festival "Halloween" screens online from November 3rd, 2007. Come join in!


• Infertility Blog - a fertility specialist blogs from the other side of the stirrups. Each post contains information about a certain topic.


• How To Make A Family - a journalist blogs about infertility in the news


• Fertility Stories - news, information, and personal accounts. Also check out the blog at Fertility Musings, Questions and Answers.


• Stirrup Queens And Sperm Palace Jesters - here you can find Operation Head's Up, the Peer Infertility Counselling List, the Barren Bitches Book Brigade and more. Also check out Mel's huge blogroll - with over 800 blogs (and counting - fast).


• Fertility Challenged - instructions for getting a blog set up to be neither wholly public nor wholly private.


• Sensitive Subjects - a site for your family and friends about what to say - and not to say - to those facing difficult situations.


• Cyclesista - blogroll of those actively cycling, listed by month.


• Miscarriage, Stillbirth, and Infant Loss Blog Directory - a resource and support centre for those experiencing baby loss


• The Bioethical Adventures Of... Perspicacious Babe. For the serious and non-serious discussion of bioethics. (Email perspicaciousbabe at gmail dot com for an invite to read.)


• Lost And Found And Connections Abound - the bush telegraph for the infertility blogosphere.


• Sisterhood of the Travelling Book - like a very, very, very small mobile library.


• The Travelling DVD Club - see how Oprah does infertility, with exclusive behind-the-scenes footage!


• The Braces Bunch - snail mail support.


• The Mensfe Community - a men-only forum for fertility issues.


• The Infertile Informer - your online source of infertility news articles from all around the world.
  

• AIH - artificial insemmination with husband's (or partner's) sperm
  
• beta - beta hCG (pregnancy blood test)
  
• BFP/N - big fat postive/negative (pregnancy test)
  
• CD - cycle day (eg CD1 - the first day of the cycle)
  
• D&C - dilatation and curettage
  
• dpo - days post ovulation
  
• dpt - days post transfer
  
• ?dp?dt - ? days post ? day transfer (eg one day post two-day transfer = 1dp2dt)
  
• E2 - blood oestrogen level
  
• EPU - egg pick-up (or egg retrieval)
  
• ET - embryo transfer
  
• FET - frozen embryo transfer
  
• FS - fertility specialist (also the "name" I give my Australian IVF specialist)
  
• FSH - follicle stimulating hormone
  
• GP - general practitioner (primary care doctor)
  
• hCG - human chorionic gonadotrophin
  
• HPT - home pregnancy test; a kind of peestick
  
• HSGF - High School Girlfriend (from this post)
  
• ICSI - intracytoplasmic sperm injection
  
• IVF - in vitro fertilisation
  
• lap/hyst/dye - laparoscopy, hysteroscopy and dye study
  
• LH - luteinising hormone
  
• LP - luteal phase
  
• MD - Miscarriage Doctor (the "name" I give to my specialist at the recurrent miscarriage clinic)
  
• MF/MFI - male factor infertility
  
• OHSS - ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome
  
• OI - ovulation induction
  
• OPK - ovulation predictor kit; another type of peestick
  
• P4 - blood progesterone level
  
• peestick - a urine test stick, such as an HPT or OPK
  
• SA - sperm analysis
  
• SOB - Singapore Obstetrician (the "name" I give my Singaporean OB/GYN, even though he's really nice)
  
• TTC - trying to conceive
  
• UF - University Friend (formerly known as my STAR, from these posts)
  

This page is for those who don't have a child living at home over whom they have legal, permanent guardianship. As such, it includes parents and step-parents whose children are permanently cared for elsewhere, those whose children are no longer living, temporary foster carers, and couples who have chosen to live child free.

I'll kick you out when you see a heartbeat or get matched with a specific child of your own. If this isn't good for you, let me know.

Also! Not all these blogs are active anymore. However, I'm keeping them here unless they're actually removed from the internet. Some of the archives are great, plus you never know when a blogger is going to pop up again out of the blue.

Email me at infertilefantasies at gmail dot com if you have anything to add or change.

• When's It Gonna Be My Turn? - through IVF and ICSI


• The Sweet Life - Vee's IVF with donor sperm and a fab photo series on "time"


• Diaries Of A Hopeful Dad To Be - Vee's Mr is Max/Dynamo Dad, now with comics (no longer updated)


• A Journey Through Infertility - was called Infertile Myrtle's Precarious Peregrination Through the Land of IVF - an IVF/IUI experience


• New Consumer Model - Bradley Littlejohn's adventures with clomid in cartoons (no longer updated)


• IVF and ICSI - as the name suggests (no longer updated)


• Perfectly Infertile Jill - now moving on to adoption. The story now continues at The Longest Wait


• Out Damned Egg! Out I Say! - doing IVF with donor embryos, and also pursuing domestic adoption in the US


• Perfectly Infertile - and also doing IVF (no longer updated)


• My IVF Journey - living childfree after IVF, ICSI, unexplained infertility, and bipolar disorder (no longer updated)


• project genesis - going through IVF for MFI


• Fortune Cookie Follies - may luck be a baby (through domestic adoption) tonight! Now also at Cats In The Cradle (where the baby should be). Email beagleblogger at gmail dot com for an invitation to read.


• The Impatient Patient - blogging about IVF, pregnancy loss, and adoption


• Vanilla Dreams - IVF, post ovarian cancer (now password protected)


• (NOT) Coming to a Uterus Near You - not hopeful of becoming a parent anymore, but hopeful nonetheless. A childfree life after infertility.


• An Ethiopian Adoption Journey - in the midst of the paperwork


• Baby Blues - from clomid/IUI to IVF (now password protected)


• For The Benefit of Mr Kite - Baby Blues' husband is Mr Kite (no longer updated)


• Baby Proof - inactively trying after IVF (this blog has been removed)


• Confessions of an Infertile - IVF/ICSI (this blog no longer updated)


• Disenchanted with the Reality that is My Life - trying to pursue IVF, getting sick with gall bladder disease, story now continues through adoption at Mixing It Up: Trying To Find My New Reality


• Losing The Baby Wait - clomid/IUI


• Miss E's Musings - giving IVF a go after IUI


• Offsprung - from the male point of view on the lead-up to IVF


• Painting Chef - clomid, pregnancy loss, and a long-suffering husband


• Snowflakes - a brief and discontinued IVF blog


• The Twatlight Zone - The Roving Infertiles tried IUI and IVF/ISCI, then they moved onto adoption as US expats living in Thailand at Thai Us Together, then they decided to discontinue the adoption process and close the blog.


• The Secret Garden - Infertility - IUI and clomid, then on to IVF


• Thin Pink Line - where next after IVF and pregnancy loss? Password protected - please email seekingpinkline at gmail dot com for more information or an invitation.


• i've got bad plumbing - immunological issues, blocked tubes, and IVF


• Reproductive Jeans - their journey through male factor infertility


• Outlandish Notions - an ex-clomid girl, moving on to a child-free life


• Southern Infertility - PCOS, hyperstimulation, IVF and where next? (no longer updated)


• Killing Time - PCOS, metformin and clomid - now moving to IUI, waiting for a buchiko to call her own


• Spiraling Into Control - trying to conceive after stillbirth and premature ovarian failure, using donor eggs


• Coming2Terms - living childfree after eleven years of infertility treatments


• Rotten Eggs: Musings of an IVF addict - trying to conceive through multiple IVF attempts


• Peanut's Journey - MF, endometriosis, progesterone deficiency, medicated IUIs, and IVF (now password protected)


• Child Bearing Hips - unexplained infertility, IUIs, an ectopic, and now IVF


• A day in the life of a moody person!! - PCOS, clomid, recurrent miscarriage


• Upon Awakening... - living childfree after infertility and divorce


• The Hardest Quest - clomid, injectibles, metformin, IUI and vasectomy reversal


• The Woman Who Cried Pregnant - MF, saving for international adoption from China


• Precious Little... - moving onto IVF after recurrent miscarriage


• Maybe Baby - clomid champs - the story according to him


• My Journey... towards my little miracle - endometriosis, IUI, and waiting for insurance


• One Hardy Swimmer! - DI after failed adoption


• onemoreweek - going the IVF road


• Behind The Mask - going through IVF/ICSI after clomid with PCOS and endometriosis


• Sarah Solitaire - hoping to become a single mum by choice through DIVF


• The Island - recovering after pregnancy loss, on the way to IUI and injectables? Now continuing at Doctor Grumbles I Presume


• Our IVF Journey - IVF, PGD and pregnancy loss due to balanced translocation. Continuing on to donor sperm at Not According To Plan. Now in limbo after loss of triplets.

These are those who are officially on the way - they have no living children at home, (the odd step-child who lives elsewhere, perhaps), but they've seen the heartbeat or been matched with a particular child.

Email me at infertilefantasies at gmail dot com if you have anything to add.

• Princess Smartypants - pregnant with triplets initially, but only one singleton ongoing, after IVF (no longer updated)


• The (Reluctant) Baroness - expecting after IUI with injectibles after IUI with clomid (blog now removed)


• Exile In Kidville - surprise pregnancy after miscarriage


• Life As A Sandwich - pregnant through IVF whilst looking after her MIL


• Oscar wants a pl@ym@te - pregnancy after OI/IUI for unexplained infertility, plus Oscar the cat


• Infertility Loss....and Life - pregnant with twins through IVF after the loss of triplets


• That was the plan - recurrent miscarriage and pregnancy


• Murphy is a Bastard - twins after IVF for unexplained infertility (blog now removed)


• The Adventures of (In)Fertile Frank - pregnant after IVF for MFI - his point of view


• Baby Steps - single mum (in production) by choice, using DE and IVF after IUI


• The I Word - pregnant after clomid and IUI for unexplained infertility (now password protected)


• Dinner Table Talk - I Think Not - another for the IVF and miscarriage gang, diagnosed with antiphospholipid syndrome, surprise pregnancy after stopping treatments!


• BigP and Me - pregnant after clomid and IUI


• The Junk Box - pregnant with fraternal twins after IVF with donor eggs (story continues at My Beautiful Crazy)


• Desperate To Multiply - pregnant after male factor infertility and IVF/ICSI


• LifeCanBeAShit - pregnant using IVF after neonatal death


• What to expect when you're not expecting - pregnant after IUI and IVF after varicocoelectomy


• Purgatory - pregnant after IVF/ICSI and a battle with luteal phase defects


• Mission Impossible - pregnant again after IVF and losing a baby to anencephaly

This blogroll is for all the infertile parents with kids at home. Some of them have completed their families, some are actively trying for another, and others are just taking some time off to smell the nappies, as it were.

Email me at infertilefantasies at gmail dot com if you have anything to add.

• So Close - through IVF


• In the Barren Season - through IVF. The post-partum story continues here.


• Life as Dad to Donor Insemination (DI) Kids - through donor insemination


• BabyQuest - also through donor insemination (now password protected)


• The Naked Ovary - through adoption (now password protected) - story continues here with surprise pregnancy


• A diary of our journey to our adopted daughter in China - arrived at destination


• The Infertile Gourmet - finally adopted


• Mananabanana - successful pregnancy at last through IVF


• Trying to Stay Sane - initially successful with IVF, but not the second time around.


• Welcome To The Desert - finally parenting through intra-family adoption (now password-protected)


• Journey To The Centre Of The Egg - successful pregnancy through IVF with ICSI


• In A Holding Pattern - now landed, after adoption from Korea, in the aftermath of ART


• The End Of My Line? - twins through IVF with donor sperm


• Jenny From The Infertility Block - through IVF/ICSI post vasectomy reversal


• Going It Alone - a single woman, a sperm donor, IVF, and twins


• Welcome To The Dollhouse - parenting through domestic adoption in the USA, using adoptive breastfeeding


• UtRus' Adventures in IVF - parenting twins after IVF


• Are We There Yet? - parenting an infant through foster-to-adopt


• Uncommon Misconceptions - number two has arrived


• The Soralis Story - number three has arrived after a second IVF pregnancy


• The Baby Waiting Game - successful arrival of twins after IVF


• This Sorta Fairytale - gave birth to a baby boy after PID


• Gravida Zero - adopted a boy after clomid and IUI - gone from the blogosphere but not forgotten


• The Princess Shine Pages - shining through foster-to-adopt after IVF


• Stranded on Infertility Island - parents through domestic adoption after a whole bag of ART


• Thalia's Fertility Journey - parenting through a surprise pregnancy after IVF


• Waiting For A Miracle - from IUI, to IVF, to success through adoption


• My "Perky" Ovaries - parent to triplets after PCOS, injectibles, and IUI


• ...as good as it gets? - parent to IVF twins conceived with sister's donor eggs


• Keeping the Faith - having super fun with twins after IVF/ICSI


• Fertility Musings, Questions and Answers - child number six on the way - three through IVF, and three conceived naturally.


• A Little Pregnant - contemplating the next step


• Stirrup Queens and Sperm Palace Jesters - on a quest to inform, educate and support, plus maybe get knocked up again


• The Smarshy Files - a male blogs about IVF, his wife and his daughter


• When Push Comes To Shove - video blogging about a second pregnancy after IVF


• The Momcaster - Mum to one, number two in progress


• Artblog - pregnant again after infertility, birth, miscarriages, and stillbirth


• T.K.O. ...more or less... - DD and husband try to conceive again after IVF, IUI, donor insemmination and miscarriages


• Hello, hello, is there anybody there? - starting out with IVF after secondary infertility


• Waiting on Two Pink Lines - starting investigations for poor ovulation after secondary infertility


• Max's Mommy - DIY pregnancy after recurrent pregnancy loss


• Waiting On Two Pink Lines - TTC#2 for her and #1 for him with PCOS


• Twisted Ovaries - twins after IVF and egg-sharing


• Hopeful Mother - first IVF/ICSI, and now with added twins!


• little spark of madness - parenting after IVF


• Things Get If'fy - now home with baby after IVF/ICSI


• Surviving My Loss - Home with baby#2 after neonatal death of #1, anovulation and letrozole treatment.


• A Dad Someday? - question mark no longer - a Dad now despite MF infertility


• My Dear Watson - home with boy/girl twins after IVF


• This Side of Pregnant - endometriosis, ovulatory dyfunction, short luteal phase, male factor infertility, IVF... and now a baby


• Sticky Feet - home with baby after tubal infertility and IVF


• Wishing on a Star - another fabulous, post-IVF gal (no longer updated)


• Stella and/or Ben - Stella has arrived via DIUI after IVF/ICSI


• Life Is Beautiful - an IUI couple. Password protected - please email Knox1908 AT hotmail DOT com for more information or an invitation. Now with twins at Here By Design.


• The EpiBlog - parenting through domestic adoption (now continuing at a password protected site)


• Peace of Mind is All I Want... - parenting after IUI


• Somewhat Lower - parenting after unexplained infertility and IVF in Korea, with a househusband/International Man of Mystery


• This Side of Pregnant - endometriosis, ovulatory dyfunction, short luteal phase, male factor infertility, IVF... and now parents after a surprise pregnancy


• The Waiting Womb - parents after endometriosis, male factor, and IVF/ICSI


• StorkFiles - baby girl after ovulation induction with clomid


• Serenity Now! - Baby O is home via IVF after a uterine restructuring


• Kir's Corner - twin parents through IVF


• A Somewhat Ordinary Life - parents through DI - now password protected


• Me the Bumblebee - parents after unexplained infertility and IVF (now password-protected)


• A Few Good Eggs - and also parenting through IVF - now password protected


• It could take 3 months - PCOS and injectables, and now a baby - oh my!


• Uterus Monologues - DIY pregnancy between treatments, and a baby to show for it!


• Jason and Samantha's Journey to Parenthood - pregnancy whilst on metformin/glucophage, and now with baby safely home!


• Belly Laughs - parents to triplets after IVF and unexplained infertility


• I thought they said it was "in the water"... - starting out into the land of infertility after failing to conceive, and getting a surprise pregnancy on the way! Now with baby!


• Still Trying After All Those Pills - parents after a DI pregnancy


• My Wait Is Over... - Lyla has arrived - with some help from clomid (previously called "So I Wait For You..."