Hi everyone. I'm the author of Swimming Upstream - a book about the struggle to conceive and how to deal with it.

The moderators of BellyBelly have asked me to write some articles for couples trying to conceive, based on our experience (5 years TTC and IVF treatment) and my research in writing the book.

The first article is up - it's called "Putting on a brave face in a child-centred world". It talks a bit about how when you're struggling to conceive you're expected to just put on a smile and deal with life when seemingly everyone around you is having babies easily. Here's the link: https://www.bellybelly.com.au/concep...ng-infertility

(When you're reading the article, check out the special 20% discount for subscribers of the BellyBelly forum. http://www.swimmingupstream.com.au/bellybelly.aspx.)

Anyway, the reason for posting is I'd like some feedback from you ...

I'll be contributing more articles to BellyBelly to help couples who are having trouble conceiving, but I'd like your feedback as to what issues you'd like to see covered. What would you like to read about? What are the big issues for you?

Here's a list as a starter:

* How men deal with infertility and how to talk to them about it
* Who's to blame for an inability to conceive?
* How do you talk to your parents?
* Fertility myths
* The effect on your sex life

I'd be keen to see what you'd like ... or any other ideas you may have!

Cheers, David Rawlings