Rachel's Interviews and Features

*As featured on the Huffington Post With just days to go before we embark upon our much-anticipated escape to the British coast, and a weather forecast that's looking somewhat less than tropical, I'm trying hard to embrace the uncertainty that accompanies a UK summer...

*As featured on Fertility Planit I was asked recently if you approach parenthood differently when it’s taken many years and medical interventions to finally get that baby into your arms. I guess the answer I will never know; after all, the long road is the only one I...

*As featured on BabyCentre Mum who struggled with infertility says BabyCentre’s support helped her conceive…and has now written a book about it! When Rachel Cathan struggled to conceive, she turned to the BabyCentre community forums for support. Desperate and...

*As featured in Fertility Road (May/June2017) Ten Things to Test Your Sanity in the Two-Week Wait Infertility throws so many challenges our way, and none more sanity-threatening than the dreaded two-week wait. From my own experiences across years of fertility...

* As featured on The Muse       Dear Speck of Dust (for that was the size of you when we met five years ago), You might never know how we used to talk about you, and even wave to you on occasion as we drove past the turnoff for the fertility clinic...

* As featured on the Huffington Post  Valentine’s Day. A day to revel in the passion of a recently discovered love. Or perhaps, as one half of a more weathered partnership, a time to dig deep and remember those days of nervous anticipation and butterflies. Romance is...

My initial reason for writing 336 Hours was pretty simple: it was a form of therapy. And a form of therapy that was much-needed at the time. This story emerged from the diaries I kept during the years that my husband and I were trying for a baby. It was as we...

When it comes to writing a book, sticking to what you know is generally considered sound advice. But, as with anything, there are inevitably some downsides to exposing your real-life experiences – and the most obvious of these has to be that it feels like a pretty big...

What can you do when the only thing you want from the New Year requires better luck and good fortune rather than greater willpower and commitment? How can you make a New Year’s resolution out of something you can't control? And yet how can you set yourself more...