Same questions. Different journeys.
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Written as and when, not on a schedule: whenever I had something to share or the feelings were real. In date order, from the very first entry.
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Pregnancy Test Day
Monday 28 June – 12 days after my transfer and this was the day I took my pregnancy test. Whilst I know it is good to stay positive, by the time I…
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D day – AKA Conception Day
I don’t know if you do have a ‘conception day’ as such with this process, I mean is it on “Day 0” which is the day they defrosted 9 of my eggs and…
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Welcome To The Clinic
Final scan and blood test day has arrived and its off to the clinic I go. Being slightly underwhelmed by Northern Cyprus itself and the five star…
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Cyprus Bound
Its finally here, I am on my way. The last six year journey has led to this very point, I have resigned from my job, I am in the final few months of…
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Back to Baby Making
So……. It’s May and I’m almost at the end of my ‘pill month’ and let me tell you how it has gone so far. Finding an amazing doctor in the UAE Now that…
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Getting You Up To Speed
The last 12 months have been a bumpy road! I don’t think anyone could have predicted just what an impact Covid would have on the world. I have been…
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Judgement
Judgement – a funny thing really, as none of us want to believe we are judgmental people, but in reality aren’t we all? Likely not meaning to impose…
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Let’s Doula This Together
If someone had told me in my mid 20s that at 45 I would be unmarried and trying to have a child alone using donor sperm, I would have laughed at…
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Leaning into the Fear
Covid Caos COVID-19 hit the world by storm early this year and I think when it did everyone thought ‘lock everything down, give it a few months and…
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A BIG bump in the road, not my belly!
It has been almost 9 months since i last posted and i had hoped that this post would be about my next chapter and i would be on my way to Cyprus for…
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Get me back to being ‘SuperGirl’
This blog is about my journey to have a child, well initially about my egg freezing journey but now as I move beyond that its about using these eggs…
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Finally on the move
It’s been a while since my last post and that’s because a whole world of ‘nothing’ has been happening in my “having a baby” journey. I thought once I…
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Vegas Baby!
If you are reading this you are probably wondering what on earth Vegas has to do with my journey to have a baby! This is a fair thing to be wondering…
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It’s a Minefield out there
This journey is full of so many decisions, when should I freeze my eggs? when should I use my eggs? How many eggs are enough? what clinic should I…
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Choosing a Clinic
I am the member of a couple of Facebook groups, one that was specifically set up for single females wanting to have a baby on their own and another…
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It’s Time
It is the eve of 2019 and I am sitting alone in my cosy little apartment in a country where even talking about being a single mum could get me in…
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