Many bloggers define themselves by their relationships with others: daughter, wife, sister, twin, aunt, manager, gimp, confidant, friend, random stranger.
I am all of these, but for this blog I am mostly defined by who I am not, namely a mother.
But just because I have been trying, and failing, to get knocked up since November 2006 I don't use this blog to wallow. The last thing I want to read is a load of "Its not fair" so I wouldn't expect you to.
I've had three IUIs and three IVFs without success. Our fourth IVF in April 2012, resulted in a short-lived pregnancy. We have 3 frozen embryos left to try again, when we are ready.
For the full tale of what we have, and haven't, tried in the quest to pass on our genes have a look at this timeline.
To get to grips with this blog you'll also need to know:
I love getting comments, who doesn't? But if you want a more private arena feel free to email me at: womb4improvement@gmail.com
I am all of these, but for this blog I am mostly defined by who I am not, namely a mother.
But just because I have been trying, and failing, to get knocked up since November 2006 I don't use this blog to wallow. The last thing I want to read is a load of "Its not fair" so I wouldn't expect you to.
I've had three IUIs and three IVFs without success. Our fourth IVF in April 2012, resulted in a short-lived pregnancy. We have 3 frozen embryos left to try again, when we are ready.
For the full tale of what we have, and haven't, tried in the quest to pass on our genes have a look at this timeline.
To get to grips with this blog you'll also need to know:
- I'm British and live in central London (the original one, not Massachusetts)
- I spell colour with a 'u', realise with an 's'
- For me periods are monthly heavy bleeding from my under-carriage not full-stops (and I'll never refer to it as Aunt Flo)
- I don't take myself too seriously, and neither should you
- I need to point that out because I don't use emoticons ;) or Not Really!!!!'s
- In fact more than one exclamation mark means I have either had an aneurysm or something incredibly exciting has just occurred
- I don't drop the 'f-bomb'
- I just write 'fuck' and its derivatives
- My punctuation is shit, but I do try
- I have a real weakness for puns and double entendres
- This is the post I consider my crowning glory
- I'm 35
- You'll see frequent references to the wombmate, she is my twin sister, who also has to have IVF to procreate - although for different reasons to me. Who says lightning doesn't strike twice?
- I try and write my posts so they work without knowing much of my backstory, but the green words are links to other posts that give a bit more detail
- And I love a bullet pointed list.
I love getting comments, who doesn't? But if you want a more private arena feel free to email me at: womb4improvement@gmail.com
