Other ways to make a baby

  • The Beginning

    The other day we were sorting through our paperwork to move it into a new filing cabinet. In amongst the bills and insurance documents we found a letter from our first ever IVF appointment. It was dated July 2021. Four years later and we finally had our first embryo implanted. It’s not a speedy process.…

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  • Attempt Two

    It’s been a long long time since our last round of IVF, way back in August. After an extended period of silence, I was contacted before Christmas to start booking in our pre-IVF appointments. With the last round having been a flop, the consultant was keen to talk through the results with us. I was…

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  • Don’t Count Your Eggs…

    Well it’s true that pride comes before a fall. Having 15 eggs harvested we felt fairly confident that that was that with the hospital visits, apart from those needed for reimplantation. The eggs have to go through various stages, and we knew we would lose a few at each stage, but with 15 we felt…

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  • Hormonal?

    There is clearly an NHS policy around IVF, that states not to overwhelm the patient with too much information. This means my questions of ‘and what happens after that’ are met with ‘you don’t need to know that yet’. As an autistic woman this is really unpleasant for me. In part because I naturally need…

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  • Farce

    I’m a fairly impatient person, mostly because I would prefer to keep moving forward, even if it’s in the wrong direction. However, having grown up with Fawlty Towers, Black Adder and the Two Ronnies, I do enjoy a good farce, which has turned out to be lucky really. My last post was in May, the…

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