Yesterday our beautiful perfect little girl arrived. I won’t go into the details of the birth as I’m sure no one needs to hear about that! But just to say it took 3.5 days of induction (which didn’t work but gave me all the contractions!), an epidural in the end and forceps as her heart rate was dropping. Right up until the very moment they placed her on me, I still couldn’t imagine that she would be here at any minute (even though the labour made it VERY real). This has been such a hard journey at times; when I think back to that day when I was given my early menopause diagnosis and the despair I felt, to figuring out that egg donation was definitely for us, with all the mixed emotions along the way, to the elation of the positive test and then being able to carry our child for 9 months…. I feel so utterly grateful to my consultants and the woman who donated her eggs who have given me the chance to create this little person with Mr M, even if the starting point wasn’t from me. She is our little miracle, and I can’t stop staring at her.