Living in Fear – The 2 Week Wait

Sometimes I look at the position we’re in right now; have voluntarily put ourselves in, and I wonder what the heck we were thinking coming back here again. Here we are, half way through the 2-week wait, and I feel utterly miserable. Yes this post will perhaps come across melodramatic and extremely negative and I…

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EmbryoS on Board

As I mentioned in my last blog post our egg retrieval was unexpectedly brought forward to last Friday instead of yesterday (Monday), so after a pretty decent night’s sleep considering what was in front of us, we went along to the fertility clinic for our big day. We got checked in, changed into our hospital…

It’s been a funny old week…

Well this has certainly been a week of up’s and down’s and bits in between. Starting with the ups, I am so overwhelmed and honoured to have been part of Izzy Judd’s #LetsTalkFertility short film, which she shared on her facebook page last night. Some time ago I became aware of Izzy and her husband…

Living in Denial

For the past couple of weeks I’ve been doing something a little strange. I’ve started trying to convince myself that I don’t want a baby. I look at babies and kids in the street and think to myself “what’s so great about them anyway?” I list off reasons in my head as to why having…

Hope (Poem)

Hope is the thing that comes in the night And clutches your chest, sets your heart alight It positions you neatly between heaven and hell And imprisons your mind in a torturous cell   Hope is a triumph and tragedy in one It dares you to dream before coming undone It pushes you close to…