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When Grief and Faith Collide
About a year ago, OH and I went back to the church where we were married for the first time. I forget the exact date, or where we were on our journey to conceive, but we were definitely making the...
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Green Light
The past few weeks have been extremely difficult. I don’t know whether it’s the cumulative effect of so many problems and delays, or the fact that baby May would have been due on Tuesday, but having to...
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In Memory of May
If I hadn’t had a miscarriage, little May would have been due tomorrow. There aren’t really any words. But I took her Bitburger tankard – a freebie I earned from drinking lots of non-alcoholic beer...
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New Name, New Look
When I started writing Songs & Sonnets, I didn’t expect it to be an infertility blog. Sure, I thought I would write about our attempts to conceive, but that was supposed to be just one strand of it...
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The Fear of Ovulation
OH and I have been practically living at the fertility clinic this week. On the whole, it’s been good news: we’re going ahead with IUI #4 tomorrow, and if it doesn’t work, everything is in place to...
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How to Make a Baby
Ingredients: 2 lesbians (one ovulating) 1 vial of IUI-quality sperm, defrosted 2 nurses 6 catheters of a variety of types 1 glass of orange juice 1. Position the ovulating lesbian on a theatre table...
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Nine
I’ve had a really good feeling about this cycle for the past two weeks. I’m not really sure why – maybe because in the end, the timing of ovulation seemed so perfect. Or perhaps I felt that after two...
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Miscarriage #2
My hope was misplaced. I started bleeding last night. I guess the only question now is whether it resolves quickly. Filed under: Pregnancy Loss Tagged: chemical pregnancy, miscarriage
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Resolved
This is just a quick update before OH and I head off to Spain tomorrow. I had a repeat blood test on Wednesday and it was negative. The pregnancy is over almost before it had begun. I’m gutted, but...
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Spain and Beyond
Here are a few photos from our holiday in Spain: I’m glad we went. It was hard getting it together enough to buy holiday clothes and pack, and I sometimes found it difficult being around so many people...
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The Obligatory Meds Photo
For the next week or two, I will mostly be injecting myself with these: Filed under: Fertility Treatment Tagged: IUI, superovulation
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A Day in the Life
We are all set for IUI #5! I take my last Menopur and buserelin this morning, inject the Pregnyl at midnight, and then the insemination is booked for 2pm on Monday. This month, I feel more relieved...
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How to Make a Baby (Part Two)
It was worse this time. I don’t think I can write about it all, but they ended up putting a clip on my cervix to straighten it out so they could get the catheter in. It hurt like fuck. Afterwards, the...
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Not Pregnant
IUI #5 hasn’t worked. I didn’t really expect it to, but it still feels shit. This whole process is getting harder and harder. The injections, the traumatic inseminations, the progesterone making me...
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WordPress Issues
Just a brief note to say I’ve been having some issues with WordPress over the past couple of weeks. In particular, it doesn’t like me posting comments (and sometimes it refuses to load blogs or show me...
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One Door Closes…
Do I need to write this post, or can you infer what has happened? Image courtesy of winnond / FreeDigitalPhotos.net Our sixth and final cycle of IUI went smoothly (no injection issues,...
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IVF Questions
Image courtesy of patpitchaya / FreeDigitalPhotos.net I promised On Fecund Thought that I would share our list of questions with her, so here they are! It’s proving to be quite a long list already and...
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Moving Forwards Slowly?
Yesterday morning I woke up excited and a little terrified. It was the 10th of September, our long-awaited IVF appointment. I imagined seeing one of the warm and caring doctors that we know well,...
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The Long Awaited Update
Sunday, 15 September 2013. It’s five days since that disappointing fertility clinic appointment, and I’m in Oxford on business. The meeting yesterday went smoothly, but I wake up feeling panicky. I try...
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