Author Archives: Noni Martins

Episode 3 out now! In this episode, I speak with Jasmine – @glowful.path – about her infertility, IVF & pregnancy loss journey. After a miscarriage and a second IVF round that ended with no embryos for transfer, her 3rd IVF cycle was successful and she is currently pregnant. There is a beautiful moment in the episode whereContinue reading “Unfertility Podcast – Episode 3”

My sister-friend Ola invited me to share my story on her podcast @fertilityconversations – Always good gisting with you sis 💜 You can listen on Spotify & Apple Podcasts

Episode 2 out now! In this episode, I speak with Natalie @myivf_miracle who went through 12 unsuccessful IVF cycles & 7 miscarriages. She now has a beautiful baby boy from her 13th IVF cycle. Natalie’s story has stayed with me ever since the first time I heard it. I had only had 1 cycle then and herContinue reading “Unfertility Podcast – Episode 2”

My very first episode. I’m really proud of this episode and I hope it resonates x You can listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts & Google Podcasts.

In this episode I discuss our 2nd failed embryo transfer + the impact it had on me. Listen now on Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts x

– 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”

For Black History Month 2020, I wrote the first ever patient blog for the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) – which is the UK’s independent regulator of fertility treatment and research. I am thankful that here in the UK, we have an authority like the HFEA, that always puts the safety of IVF patientsContinue reading “Unfertility x HFEA”

“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)”

Investigations: End of March 2019  – I was admitted into hospital via A&E with a second episode of pelvic pain (the first episode a couple of days before, I had waited 5 hours in A&E and left before I was seen as the pain had calmed down). While in hospital this second time – InContinue reading “Our fertility journey so far…”

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”