You’re standing in the kitchen at 11pm. The instructions say to give the injection at exactly 11pm. Not 10:30pm. Not 11:30pm. 11pm. You wonder whether two minutes late last night actually mattered. You wonder whether it matters right now. Two Categories of IVF Medication Timing IVF protocols typically involve multiple medications, given at different points...Read More

I have given injections in emergency departments. I have inserted intravenous lines into necks and chests for chemotherapy. I have drained fluid from abdomens and lungs, done core biopsies of liver tissue and breast lumps, inserted urinary catheters, performed autopsies. I spent years in pathology dissecting specimens. Then came the day I had to give...Read More

You’ve done the research. You’ve attended the appointments. You feel as prepared as anyone can be. Then your first cycle starts, and it feels nothing like what you imagined. No amount of preparation fully captures what it’s like to live it. Not because anything has gone wrong. Because the gap between reading about IVF and...Read More

I never planned to build an app. I am a doctor. I know how to read a protocol, follow instructions, manage complexity. I have done it professionally for years. And yet, sitting on my kitchen floor surrounded by printed sheets from three different clinics, medication boxes with handwritten notes, and a calendar that no longer...Read More

By Dr. Caroline Fiddler  |  Doctor, IVF Patient, Co-founder of CycleGuide I still remember the night I realised I had taken my morning medication twice. I sat on the bathroom floor holding the packet, going over everything in my head, trying to work out how it happened. I had read the instructions. I had set...Read More