I’ve read a few articles recently about where to go if you’re considering egg donation: stay in the UK or go abroad. As I’ve mentioned before, we took the option of using a clinic in Spain to find our donor and have the treatment and only have hugely positive things to say about that decision.…
We’ve been talking a lot recently about trying a second round of fertility treatment with our frozen embryos and I’ve been feeling more and more uncomfortable with our decision to keep this to ourselves. Maybe uncomfortable’s not the word..... if you’ve read some of my other blogs you’ll know that I have always been torn…
I had dinner with the girls tonight. A real treat to be out, but I felt a bit disingenuous talking about my pregnancy and the birth etc. and not telling the truth about the early menopause diagnosis and egg donation. I am so very grateful for our daughter and have talked here about how I…
We saw the doctor again today to finalise ‘the delivery plan’. I’ve been on a real rollercoaster over the last few months thinking about how our little person is going to arrive. Our private consultant had already strongly recommended a C-section which threw me, and at the end of March, the Dr at the hospital…
We went to see our consultant today. She didn’t really do anything except a quick external scan to have a look at the baby. But we were shocked when she told us that I should definitely elect to have a C-section. I hadn’t even considered this as I thought once I was pregnant, and everything…
I’ve been having discussions over the last couple of weeks with Mr M about what we tell people when we announce we’re pregnant. We’ve definitely decided that we won’t tell people it’s an egg donation baby, as we want to wait until we can tell our child about it and not risk them finding out…
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…
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…
We did it! We are now officially married and Mr M is now my husband, as of last month! It has been absolutely perfect, and we couldn't have asked for a better day. It’s a bit strange as it’s almost like I'm living two parallel lives, one where the wedding and partying after and our…
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