Trying to Conceive
by Fiona McPhillips, featuring a foreword by Dr John Waterstone and published by Liberties Press, is available countrywide now. It is an easy-to-read guide for all those trying to conceive, providing both medical information and a personal perspective on the entire range of fertility issues. It is also available from Liberties Press and Amazon.
Fiona McPhillips is a freelance journalist and academic researcher. Having given birth to her son in 2003, she then faced three rounds of Clomid, three IUIs, two IVFs and suffered six miscarriages before giving birth to her daughter in 2008. She went on to have another son in 2009.
fiona at makingbabies dot ie
Just to remind you all, my book is being launched TONIGHT!!!!! I got a copy of it yesterday and am pretty happy with it. I thought I might be afraid to open it in case all I’d see would be things I wanted to change but it went through a fairly rigorous proofreading process and we seem to have caught most things. So I actually enjoyed reading my own book! All the feedback I’ve had so far has been good and I’ve also had my first review – so far, so good.
So, maybe see you later!?!
April 22nd, 2008 at 2:15 pm
Best of luck Fiona. Am so happy for you! Everything is coming together!
April 22nd, 2008 at 2:15 pm
The very best of luck to you and your bump this evening!
April 22nd, 2008 at 4:07 pm
Hi, here via Twenty.
It’s a terrific idea to have a book about this from the Irish perspective and within the Irish health system. For many people this is an important topic and this book might help them a good deal.
Well done and good luck tonight!
April 22nd, 2008 at 6:19 pm
I hope you have a ball tonight. All the best with the book!
April 22nd, 2008 at 6:32 pm
Congratulations, Fiona. That’s a wonderful accomplishment. I wouldn’t go if I didn’t live on another continent. =)
April 22nd, 2008 at 6:33 pm
I WOULD go is what I meant. What an unfortunate typo, I’m so sorry.
April 22nd, 2008 at 7:51 pm
Hi Fiona, also here via twenty major, and I’ve been clicking around for bloody ages now.
I kind of really want to swear in trying to describe how great I think this site is.
You’ll have a couple of readers of you book as soon as we can get our hands on it here in Holland and I get the feeling I’ll be trawling through your archives for help, guidance, reassurance, you name in it, in the coming weeks and months ourselves. We’ll need it.
Congratulations to date, and the very best of luck for the coming weeks and further ahead!
April 22nd, 2008 at 11:59 pm
Feebee, hope tonight was great, wish I could be on Irish turf to meet ye. I could not think of having better company than Baby A on a night like tonight.
I am sure she is very proud indeed.
April 23rd, 2008 at 6:18 am
Fiona,
Genuinely lovely to meet you at the launch. Thank you for your kind welcome of just some random blogger (via Mulley) who wanted to support you and wish you well. I was so impressed at the amazing reaction from supporters and people you helped last night that I will definitely be recommending your site to everyone. I hope you enjoyed the launch and best of luck with the book!
Darragh
April 23rd, 2008 at 3:07 pm
Thank you so much everyone.
Darragh – really lovely to meet you and thanks for the great write-up!
Xbox – thanks for stopping by and sorry to hear you’re going through all this crap too. Love your blog – great to get a male perspective on all the nonsense we get up to. And very best of luck with it all!
April 23rd, 2008 at 4:34 pm
Hi! Fiona
Congrats on the book launch last night!
I saw the feature in Healthplus.
Onwards and upwards!
And I can’t wait to hear news of your daughter’s safe arrival!
April 24th, 2008 at 5:19 pm
Congrats! Great to see all the press interest giving it the attention it deserves…