Author Archives: Noni Martins

The Fertility Show invited me to do a takeover on their Instagram page – my first takeover ever! I had really good engagement and it was an incredibly affirming experience – hearing from others and being asked questions I hadn’t even thought about. You can catchup via the highlights & the live session I had with Sophie Sulehria after.

My stint on BBC Woman’s Hour with Anita Rani.

Our 3rd round of IVF failed and the whole thing has hit me like a bus. This is not a podcast episode because I am not able to speak about this without crying. And to be honest, even crying seems so overrated right now because what I feel is a deep sadness that crying seeminglyContinue reading “A deep sadness”

Episode 5 out now! I’m back with another episode about my journey. In this episode I am just checking in with reflections from our third round of IVF. I speak on the mental & emotional shifts I have noticed between when I am not doing an IVF cycle vs when I am going through aContinue reading “Unfertility Podcast – Episode 5”

My very first episode. I hope it resonates x You can listen to the podcast on: Spotify x Apple Podcasts x Google Podcasts

– a love letter to my community Dear Black People, we need to break the stigma and misconceptions. We need to check the misinformation we have held onto for generations. We need to become more critical and progressive in our thinking because in doing this we will be able to see unconventional journeys towards fertilityContinue reading “Dear Black People”

“I give myself permission to cry, scream, laugh, dance, eat and do all the things that this dynamic body needs and demands” – @siphokaziveti Once we started our IVF treatment, the whole thing just felt like a dream. It feels real but not real at the same time and it kind of felt like weContinue reading “All Cried Out”

“Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful” – Hebrews 10 v 23 I say this all the time…  I wasn’t always this believer (in God). I believed in a higher power of some sort and felt no need to be definitive about that. And IContinue reading “Faithful To The End”

Love isn’t cancelled Music isn’t cancelled Dancing isn’t cancelled Progress isn’t cancelled Meditating isn’t cancelled Dreaming isn’t cancelled Self-care isn’t cancelled Reading isn’t cancelled Having fun isn’t cancelled – @insta_holaa What a year it has been already… and I am really not sure why and how a non-UK Mother’s Day has triggered me. I don’tContinue reading “2020 cancelled?”

“There is a life to be lived right here in the waiting.” –@morganharpernichols Before we began I spent a lot of time worrying (and being actually terrified at one point) about what it was going to be like, what I was going to be like. Having gone through the first half now I can sayContinue reading “How does it feel?”

You can have both God & Fertility treatment – Noni Martins IVF seems to be this big secret that is only shared in the TTC community and the information never gets passed down and across to people outside of the TTC community. Almost everyone I have spoken to either has no idea what IVF isContinue reading “What is IVF? (and ICSI)”

And then I surrendered. To the soft. And the sweet. And the sorrow. Not shying away. Allowing each inhale and exhale to source a new life in my cells from their exchange. Let this teach you. Within each release, lives an offering. What we let go of creates room for beginnings… Your winter may lastContinue reading “The Show Must Go On”

Oh, the blessing. Oh, the blessing. Can’t you see, what God has done. – Jesus Is King, Sunday Service Collective So the truth is, I hadn’t really been into the ‘Christian God’ thing for quite a while… I was always spiritual to a degree, spiritual including feeling things from my ancestors and I always believedContinue reading “God, Infertility & Me”