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Gifts of Infertility Series

Here is a linked index for all the articles in my Gifts of Infertility and Childlessness Series:
  1. We are not alone 
  2. Friendship
  3. New Talents 
  4. Saving Lives
  5. Knowledge
  6. New Adventures in Exotic Lands
  7. Blogging
  8. Self-confidence
  9. Our No Kidding Lifestyle
  10. Accepting my mortality
  11. Understanding Why
  12. Strength
  13. Compassion and empathy
  14. Mindfulness
  15. Self-compassion
  16. Humility
  17. Joy of being an aunt
  18. Reflection
  19. Courage
  20. Freedom
  21. Embracing the Unknown
  22. Letting Go
  23. Our marriage 
  24. Self-discovery
  25. A Reminder of What is Important 



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About Me

This is my blog on living and loving life without children after infertility. It is a space for thoughts on my No Kidding lifestyle, the good and the bad, remembering what was lost, but more particularly, celebrating what I have.

I love to hear from readers, and you can email me here:
nokiddinginnz at gmail (dot) com

Or find me on Instagram:
@nokiddinginnz


Currently I'm a blogger, amateur photographer, and keen traveller. I blog on A Separate Life about my everyday life.

My husband and I are the stereotypical couple without children who love to travel. I am (at) travellingMali on Instagram and there I post photos of various trips internationally, past and present, and of NZ travels, along with occasional photos from where I live.

In 2024 we travelled to Ireland, the United Kingdom and Portugal for three months, and I'm recording those travels at My 2024 Travels. Back in 2013 I travelled in Europe and the Middle East for five months, and kept a blog at Lemons to Limoncello.

I also had a travelblog some years ago, but stopped posting in 2012. You can find it at Mali's Travelalphablog.

In 2018, I undertook a daily blogging challenge at x365 Take Two.

In 2024, I had an essay published in an anthology called Otherhood: Essays being childless, childfree and child-adjacent.

Popular Posts

  • "If you don't have kids, you don't understand"
  • The Pain Olympics
  • You can achieve anything? Yeah, right.
  • Infertility's Waiting Room
  • Bittersweet past and present
  • When silence is the best policy
  • "She has no children. She has nothing."
  • Childlessness, pain and healing: the early days of life after infertility
  • Those dreaded Days
  • The real success stories

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