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.…
I’m feeling really shattered at the moment and it got me thinking about whether the early menopause and pregnancy really work together. Even though I’ve been on all the drugs to supplement my body for what it’s lacking, I still wonder if I am lacking things that a normal pregnant woman would produce in her…
We’ve started trying to get all the tests done that we need to have to be able to go ahead with the second round of treatment recently but it’s getting a bit stressful! You need to have a mammogram, a smear and all the sexual health screenings, plus a few others tests (for both myself…
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…
I got a period today and it really made me think. I know I can’t have reversed the menopause and am sure it’s just a ‘bleed’ while my body adjusts back to whatever my normal is. But it got me thinking again, would I actually want the menopause to be reversed for me now if…
Today I’ve been thinking a lot about egg donation and wondering if it is still a taboo subject? And I think it is. Firstly, here’s me and Mr M that are so happy with the process, and now wouldn’t change it if it meant not having our daughter in our lives, yet we still haven’t…
We’ve now been getting to know our daughter for 3 months, and apart from the sleep deprivation and not really having a clue what we’re doing most of the time, it’s been incredible. And today, when I was putting her down for a nap, I started thinking about if I would actually want to have…
I know it is no one’s fault (or mine if anyone’s as we decided not to tell people we’d gone through egg donation) but today I’m finding it hard to come to terms with the fact my daughter isn’t from my egg. I know it’s just a thing people say when they meet your baby…
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…
When you're considering egg donation, you have to have a couples counselling session with an egg donation specialist to make sure you are aware of everything that goes with having a baby in that way, and that the counsellor thinks you are ok to go ahead. When I got my diagnosis, I called the counsellor…
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