"By the time you're eight weeks pregnant, the baby is called a foetus, which means 'offspring'." This is one of the informative gems available on the internet for those wishing to chart their growing baby's progression with minute accuracy. I am ...
Okay, so this is a bit of news to add to our site about trying to make a baby: I’m pregnant. Me. Actually me. Not someone else, not just in the movies, or my strange dreams, but real-life me. After 1.5 years ...
I really hope that I'm pregnant this month. It's been over 1.5 years of trying, and now the drugs are working I'm more hopeful for a result. This has two consequences - 1) excitement and 2) the potential for a massive ...
Two beautiful friends of ours recently wrote about their experience of miscarriage. It is not only a beautifully written blog post, but it is honest and raw. It is also somewhat unusual in being written by the husband, whose perspective is ...
Christmas in our house means overindulgence, trashy TV, and lots of sitting. But this year that wasn't all we got up to. After successfully ovulating before Christmas, our consultant instructed us to carry on taking 200mg of Clomid for the next ...
Today we saw our consultant again, a nice Christmas treat. (As an aside, the RUH does Christmas decorations way better than the BRI in Bristol. And they had the quietest choir in the world.) We found out that I'd passed the last ...
I have ovulated! Woooooooooooooooooooooo! Wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! Whoop Whoop! It's only taken 14 months of fertility treatment, but finally this month, after taking the highest does of Metformin that I can (200mg), we have ovulatory success! I have previously described the time we found out it ...
I have written before about my battles with weight loss and the effect that PCOS has on my trying to shed the pounds. But a year in to our fertility treatment, the stakes are higher, and so is the guilt. If ...
I've had a number of people asking me "what's happening with the baby stuff?" over the last few weeks, so it's clearly time for another post. The reason there hasn't been one is because nothing has happened to report. If you've ...
I hate failing tests. So much so that I don't generally do it. I HAVE A FIRST CLASS DEGREE IN A REAL SUBJECT! But no matter how hard I try, I can't seem to pass this one. And I've retaken it ...