An ovulation tracker app and an IVF treatment organiser do different jobs. One estimates information about a menstrual cycle. The other records information from a clinic-directed treatment plan. During IVF, I needed the second type of tool. I was no longer trying to predict when I might ovulate. I was trying to keep track of...Read More

IVF Explained By Dr. Caroline Fiddler, founder of CycleGuide By Day 3 of my own cycle, five embryos were still growing. The next update wasn’t coming until Day 5. And there was nothing to do in between except wait. If you’re in that gap right now, you already know the feeling. You have a number....Read More

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