Stephanie Rodgers

Feminist, leftie, green māmā from Te Whanganui-a-Tara

Category: Health

  • Baby talk 4: first transfer

    Read the full Baby Talk series Content note: this one involves my vagina, like, a lot. Also blood. And that whole infertility/anxiety thing. Of our four fertilised eggs, two were…


  • Baby talk 3: the eggs, the lube, the triggering

    Read the full Baby Talk series So we took a bit of an unscheduled posting hiatus there; but more on that later. Today we’re talking eggs, lube, and triggers. Just…


  • Baby talk: the needles

    Read the full Baby Talk series (Content note: infertility, IVF, injections) I definitely didn’t plan it this way, but here we are carrying on with the anniversaries: because it was…


  • Mother’s Day

    (Content note: infertility, mental health, motherhood) My first post about our ~parenting journey~ is here. Mother’s Day has never been the most problematic artificially-hyped-to-sell-stuff-parental-celebration holiday for me. I grew up…


  • A year ago today

    Read the full Baby Talk series (Content note: infertility, IVF, fatphobia) A year ago today, my partner and I “properly” began the journey to become parents. We’d been on the…