I am not the tummy mummy, but my partner nanc has been through the ringer. mostly past the throwing up at all times of the day stage but still constant nausea. She has had the crappy complexion and is moving out of that now. We have also finally moved beyond the so ridiculously sensitive to smells that i am not allowed to cook at home stage. Yay!

So we are really just in the settling down and waiting till week 14 to feel safe stage. She was so sick at one point with stabbing ovary pain, the Dr thought the pregnancy may be ectopic, but bub looks good, she just has a corpus luteum (not good on the spelling by memory) cyst. Hence my very early scan image in the ticker. It was actually quite exciting as the heart beat was visible.

I do, however, seem to be in sympathy with everything already. I guess it is sometimes forced in terms of food prep and the like as I am working from home right now and my partner is studying so we are together a lot.

We are really keen to do gay and lesbian parenting group kind of things down the track and also to ask others of experiences with negotiating queries such as father's name on birth cert, etc. Given that we have been successful during self-insemination rather than through the clinic as originally planned, we have to work this out. Maybe there is a forum for that. but if anyone has advice, please bring it on...

So lovely to find this site. I look forward to chatting to you more.
freya