It is a fact well established that a woman not in possession of a husband must be in want of a baby. Or at the very least a cat, so I was of course not surprised to see (on Twitter. Not in the course of my own literary wanderings. I prefer something a little more…
Category: IVF
Egg Freezing: Putting all your eggs in one basket?
“Do you think we’ll all still be single and friends with each other in our thirties?” The year is 2000. A new millennium has dawned, and having recently read and become mildly obsessed with Bridget Jones’ Diary, I am sitting in a bar in Oxford with two of my closest friends from university, musing aloud…
What’s it like to be a Single Mother by Choice?
The simple answer is, not much different to being any other mother. We all spam our Facebook feed with pictures of adorable newborns, food-covered weaning babies and exuberant toddlers. We all tell tales of sleepless nights and bodies that are never the same again. We all scan the parks and baby groups for the sight…
Thank God, they put the right one in
Most people’s birth stories seem to fall into one of the following categories: 1.) URRGGHH that was HORRIBLE. 2.) UURRGGHH that was HORRIBLE. There was blood everywhere. And stitches.* And it REALLY HURT. 3.) It was amazing. I was in a birthing pool. I had the intervention-free, drugless labour I always wanted. There was whalesong….
Ten Things I Have Learned About IVF
1.) I am thinking of looking for a role in the circus as the Astonishing Human Pin Cushion. 2.) Everyone is telling me what to eat: Drink milk, eat eggs, don’t eat cheese, eat tofu, don’t eat tofu, sugar is bad for the eggs. It’s enough to drive anyone to a life of cupcakes…
Why can’t it just all be easy, like in the Bible?
AAAAAARRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHH I am sat on my bed with a copy of The Baby-Making Bible next to me. It all seems a lot more complicated than it is in the real Bible, where men just have to “know” their wives, and “go into” them. Although I suppose that Abraham and Sarah had difficulty conceiving, and had…
Treatment Over. Complete with Simulated Walk of Shame for Authenticity
So the IUI is over, and I am going crazy all over these internets. The current fear is that the IUI was done too soon, given that it took place less than 24 hours after I had taken the so-called “trigger” shot (I confess I had absolutely no idea how this would work, and lay…
In the words of the great Eminem, I’m Back I’m on the Rack and Ovulating
Loving the drama. It is expensive though. Went for a scan at the clinic today-first one since I started taking the medication a week ago. It turns out that I have indeed over-responded, and the drugs have miraculously resulted in four follicles (weird, to think that something I just stuck in my stomach each night…
And Thou Shalt See Me Weeping on the BBC
So today’s Productive Thing was that I watched a documentary about a fertility clinic on BBC i-player. Interesting, although as a connosieur of the art I would have preferred a section on IUI. All we got as far as that was concerned was a brief interview with a sperm donor. I wondered what our children…