So here’s the thing. I often say silly stuff that I wish I hadn’t said. Not because I’m insensitive and thoughtless but because I don’t know what else to say and so I end up saying something profoundly stupid. There’s a certain irony in me writing a piece on “what not to say.” This is not…
TTC
Surviving the two week wait… IVF is a game of patience
As a natural optimist I thought IVF would be relatively straight forward. It was an opinion that did not last long. One successful IVF cycle was enough to crush the idealist in me I was naïve and uninformed in equal measure. It’s a complex process and I learnt very quickly – and about $8K later…
Wanting good things to happen to good people
There’s this scene in the first Sex in the City movie when Carrie and the girls are holidaying in Mexico. They are actually on Carrie and Big’s honeymoon minus Big of course. Charlotte is feeling a sense of guilt for being happy. The conversation goes like this: Charlotte: Nobody gets everything they want! Look at…
Don’t bake and inject
Last weekend I kept thinking ‘Ooh, next weekend I might be pregnant” and so when this weekend finally arrived and I was very not pregnant my emotions were surprisingly ok. We were quite busy and there wasn’t a lot of time to dwell and I knew I had Dr M’s appointment coming up so I…
Hard to explain the two week wait
So far the two week wait is going swimmingly. It’s too early for me to go a bit nutty, this time next week I suspect the emotions will be a tad more erratic. I have however been quite irritable and I’m not entirely sure why? I don’t recall it being a symptom of the progesterone pessaries…
Fragmented embryos
The last transfer I had was a bit complicated, some little hiccup with my cervix meant that I had to have a general anaesthetic for what should be a 1 minute procedure. To avoid this happening for this transfer, when I had egg pick up a few days ago Dr M put a little probe…