Dee

Telling siblings where there is a big age gap, that there are babies on the way can be daunting, it was no different for us.

When you have IVF, they do a scan at 6 weeks, we were both nervous and excited. Was everything still going to be ok and were they going to find anything. I felt fantastic in myself, no sign of sickness,…

The drugs needed to help ensure a successful transfer result played a fundamental part in the outcome of our 5TH IVF attempt.

It took a while to pull myself together after getting the devastating news that all of our eggs from both collections had died. I couldn’t face not trying again but I was also filled with fear that it would be…

Always being a positive person and equally always believing that I would have children, I never really focused on the negatives. However, despite all of that, the 5 days wait to hear about the progress of our second lot of…

Egg Collection Day Wednesday 14th Wide awake before the 7.50 alarm, I never set it for the exact time which amuses Chris no end. Packed and ready to leave, Chris raided breakfast and bought me lots of cakes, nothing in…

    Having the IVF conversation with work Monday12th October part 2 Outside the clinic with the next steps planned, we’re feeling most positive. It’s a glorious sunny day, we both pick up on work stuff we’ve missed. I immediately…

These diary extracts were written during our second round of egg collection, they are linked to the article Our IVF Journey part 3, published May 27th 2019. They are as were written at the time and hopefully give an insight…

I didn’t want too much of a delay for my next cycle, given the disappointment with the last cycle. The earliest we could get back out to Valencia was late September, so a couple of months later from our first…