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 ...
By the time my operation came round I was overdue a period. Even by my standards. My cycle had been going for about 70 days compared to the usual 50. But as it happened, all the fertling around during the ...
Working in a hospital as I do, I find it quite a surreal experience to be on the other side of the imaginary patient-professional wall. There is, at the same time, something both comforting and terrifying in knowing how an operating theatre ...
The operation has been scheduled for 9th August...
I've put off writing this post for a while. It's been a tough week or so, and I am only just picking myself up after one of those loop-the-loop things with a big drop at the end. Catching up from last ...