Magazine & Newspaper Features

Katherine writes real-life stories, lifestyle features and first-person pieces for magazines and newspapers. She has written for The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Red, Psychologies, Easy Living, The Daily Mail, People and Six Magazine. The topics she covers include dating and relationships, singleness, infertility and IVF, childlessness, perfectionism, faith, adventure, travel, addictions and eating disorders.

Here is a selection of Katherine's work. Click on the links to read the stories.

The Sunday Times

• Maybe No Baby. One in five women in their mid-forties are childless. New guidelines improving access to IVF will help, but the real problem is ‘social infertility’.

The Guardian

• The rise of social infertility. IVF for women over 40 doesn't address the root of the problem. How can we help people make the most of their fertility?

Easy Living

• Egg freezing: money for nothing? Some experts say it's the future of fertility. Others say clinics are preying on the hopes of vulnerable women. Katherine Baldwin (childless, single and 42) sorts the facts form the science fiction. Published in July 2013 issue. Download the PDF by clicking on the following links: Page One, Two, Three, Four.
  

Red

• A family against the odds. After adopting her son from Russia, Sandrine Gallien, 40, decided to have one last try at IVF. Here, she tells Katherine Baldwin about the unconventional way she created her family. Published in December 2013 issue. Download the PDF here: Page 1 and Page 2.
  

• Is there an alternative solution to antidepressants for women with mild depression? Published in March 2013 issue. Download the PDF here. 

Psychologies Magazine

• A lone adventure. What would inspire someone to take off on a journey of their own? First-person feature on a solo adventure to Mexico. Published in May 2013 issue. Download the PDF here.
  

• Perfectionist Hotspots. We often take great pride in our perfectionism but having extremely high standards can backfire. Discover where your pursuit of excellence is getting in the way of your goals and sabotaging your life. Published in the October 2012 issue. Download the PDF here.
  
• Are things better on the bright side? A new book suggests most of us are optimists at heart, even if we don't realise it. Is this really the case and does life run more smoothly for those with an upbeat outlook? Published in the January 2012 issue. Download the PDF here.
  
• Faith journeys. True faith is a wonderful thing but what happens when that sense of certainty is shaken, either by a personal challenge or when a religion becomes linked to scandal or extremism. Is doubt separable from belief? Published in the November 2011 issue. Download the PDF here.
  

The Daily Mail

• Baby goggles syndrome: the perils and pitfalls of dating to the rhythm of the biological clock. Click here to read the full piece online and hear how women and men are dealing with their baby angst. 
• As more and more women struggle with infertility, is baby envy the new social divide? Click here for the full article.