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No Kidding in NZ: Gifts of Infertility Series - #22 - Letting Go
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No Kidding in NZ. An Infertility Survivor's Thoughts on Life Without Kids. Gifts of Infertility Series. Thursday, 23 July 2015. Gifts of Infertility Series - #22 - Letting Go. In order to reach acceptance of my new life, I’ve had to let go of:. Attachment to material possessions. An on-going genetic line. I’ve written about all of these things before, as you can see if you follow the links. Acceptance. I’ve written about it before – many times! Labels: gifts of infertility. 24 July 2015 at 12:57. About m...
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When your work mojo has left the building – Different Shores – Childfree LIVING
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Different Shores - Childfree LIVING. Books, Films, News. When your work mojo has left the building. Date: March 31, 2017. In the brilliant show Catastrophe, Sharon (age 44, two children, both conceived post-40) discovers she has low ovarian reserve. She’s depressed afterwards and moans:. 8220;I just found out I’m, like, 99% barren… I’m just an old crone… I should start figuring out if I wanna be buried or cremated… I’m getting so old… my eggs are dead”. 8220;I’m rotting! I’m half-dead. Help. I hit a cul-...
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No Kidding in NZ: "She has no children. She has nothing."
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No Kidding in NZ. An Infertility Survivor's Thoughts on Life Without Kids. Gifts of Infertility Series. Monday, 30 January 2012. She has no children. She has nothing.". She has no children. She has nothing.". So said a so-called friend of Beef Princess. I’ve stolen the title of this blog post from Nicole. Who was also moved to write). We've certainly been exposed to the subliminal messages of society that encourage this school of thought. But we would have heard it, and it would have sunk in. In those da...
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No Kidding in NZ: #MicroblogMondays: Not sleeping? A tip.
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No Kidding in NZ. An Infertility Survivor's Thoughts on Life Without Kids. Gifts of Infertility Series. Monday, 3 August 2015. When I lived in Thailand as a teenager, I kept a diary. Turns out, I’m crap at keeping diaries - Samuel Pepys or Anne Frank I am not! 3 August 2015 at 13:56. Writing has been such a Godsend. Its allowed me both to get things out of my brain and also to process them. And Im terrible at diaries too. 3 August 2015 at 15:24. Exactly. Thats what I love. 3 August 2015 at 19:00. Im anot...
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No Kidding in NZ: #MicroblogMondays: It's over!
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No Kidding in NZ. An Infertility Survivor's Thoughts on Life Without Kids. Gifts of Infertility Series. Monday, 10 August 2015. Last week on #Microblog Mondays, Cristy. Asked her readers to finish the sentence, “Infertility is .”. My first reaction was a rude word, as I remembered my own pain, and thought of all the people I know, and all those I don’t, who are going through pain right now because of infertility. 11 August 2015 at 02:32. 11 August 2015 at 11:33. 11 August 2015 at 08:09. This is such an i...
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No Baby On Board – Different Shores – Childfree LIVING
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Different Shores - Childfree LIVING. Books, Films, News. No Baby On Board. Date: March 6, 2017. I love this cartoon by Martin Shovel. 8211; this is what I’ve always thought every time I’ve seen one of those. Stickers. I’ve always wondered if they really are a proven crash deterrent. This cartoon could be a metaphor for attitudes towards the childfree at the moment, what with these study findings. Have children and some people just. Children, for whatever reason? Not to mention the people that. That carto...
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The parents who ‘regret having children’ – Different Shores – Childfree LIVING
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Different Shores - Childfree LIVING. Books, Films, News. Books, Films, News. The parents who ‘regret having children’. Date: February 13, 2017. The Guardian published an article on Saturday entitled “‘It’s the breaking of a taboo’: the parents who regret having children”. Semantics apart, it’s refreshing for the childfree to see an article like this. The standard discourse on. 8220;raising a child is bloody hard”. Tends to be rounded off with. In this article, German author Sarah Fischer is quoted thus:.
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No Kidding in NZ: My Story
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No Kidding in NZ. An Infertility Survivor's Thoughts on Life Without Kids. Gifts of Infertility Series. I have known I would never have children for over ten years now. My story therefore is much more about how we live after infertility, than the infertility journey itself. So the easiest way to tell my story is in the following post. I wrote it in 2011, for Pamela's blog. It was later picked up by the Huffington Post. Three years later, I still stand by it. It really is my story:. In 2013 I travelled in...
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No Kidding in NZ: The Pain Olympics
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No Kidding in NZ. An Infertility Survivor's Thoughts on Life Without Kids. Gifts of Infertility Series. Saturday, 31 March 2012. There’s a lot said in our community about the Pain Olympics – that there shouldn’t be a judgement about who has the most pain, who has it worse. I’ve been hearing this for ten years. And I will admit that I’ve never been completely comfortable with it. I don’t agree that there are no degrees of pain, that all pain is the same. My stubbed toe is not as painful as your broken arm.