Done!

We’re here in Spain and it’s done! I can’t believe it!! It’s all gone very smoothly this morning, which is more to be said for my journey to meet Mr M at the train station last night. Stay relaxed they said. So I made sure I left work in plenty of time, and strolled down…

And so it begins…

Our doctor in Spain emailed yesterday to confirm the egg collection will take place tomorrow (it’s never certain until the egg donor has had her last check-up). I still find it hard to believe that there is a woman out there willing to go through all this so that she can donate her eggs to…

Hola España (briefly)

Today we flew over to Spain to meet our doctor at the Fertility Clinic and so Mr M could leave a sperm sample which will be used to fertilise our eggs. We decided to just do it all in a day so we’ve got tomorrow to relax at home before work again on Monday, but…

The ball is rolling

So, since I last wrote, we've had an epic honeymoon trip driving up the coast of California. We really wanted to do something big to celebrate getting married but also do something together before we embark on the egg donation treatment, and hopefully two becomes three. And I'm so glad we did. It feels like…

So very grateful

Now we’ve made the decision to definitely go ahead with our egg donation treatment in a few months time, it feels like a huge weight has been lifted and I can go on our belated honeymoon without all the worry and indecision flying around in my head. But it’s also allowed me to step back a…

This is really happening

We had an appointment with our consultant today. Mr M had a lot of questions so it was good for him to get all those answered and she basically said we're good to go whenever we decide to go ahead. She definitely agreed that it would be better to wait for a period of time…

Life is a rollercoaster

God, I'm all over the place at the moment. 10 days on from the diagnosis, and I am convinced that egg donation is the right thing for us. I have literally thought about nothing else since my diagnosis; I've googled, talked to Mr M, my sister, my acupuncturist.  And I don't know if it’s because…