Ovulation help for gay couples?

[Amity]

I think it has something to do with the legalities of home insemination. They can't give you something to induce ovulation if they aren't certain you're going to be "able" to conceive in a "legal" manner IYKWIM.

I'd check that out - bearing in mind that I'm from Australia rather than England...

[Sally2]

What state are you in, hon?
My Sal ( tummy mummy ) has PCOS and we were able to access any and all fertility support we wanted, including annonymous sperm at Melbourne IVF BECAUSE of her 'infertility'. So I am sure that you can get Clomid or access IVF or IUI through a fertility specialist in VIC.
Welcome to BB!

[kimandrach]

Hi All,
I am new to this forum (and to online chatting generally) but my partner of 10 years and I are now on our first cycle of IUI (just waiting for blood tests to show ovulation is near and go in for insem) and there seems to be so much info around but hardly any targeted at lesbian parents (except for all the boooks I just ordered online) and its hard to decipher what it all means, anyway I thought I would introduce myself and start participating to try and find others in same sitch to catch through the confusion, information overload and process with.

I have just stopped running as well (previously I was training with a triathlon squad) at our Dr's suggestion so feeling a bit flat and lonely without the daily runs to get myself set for the day.

Fingers crossed we will be pregnant in coming weeks but not really sure whether to expect it to happen the first time or whether it will take months. Hopefully the first because I am already over the waiting and not knowing what we can/ can't plan.
Fingers crossed
Inpatient
Kim

[levi78]

Hi All,
I am new to this forum (and to online chatting generally) but my partner of 10 years and I are now on our first cycle of IUI (just waiting for blood tests to show ovulation is near and go in for insem) and there seems to be so much info around but hardly any targeted at lesbian parents (except for all the boooks I just ordered online) and its hard to decipher what it all means, anyway I thought I would introduce myself and start participating to try and find others in same sitch to catch through the confusion, information overload and process with.

I have just stopped running as well (previously I was training with a triathlon squad) at our Dr's suggestion so feeling a bit flat and lonely without the daily runs to get myself set for the day.

Fingers crossed we will be pregnant in coming weeks but not really sure whether to expect it to happen the first time or whether it will take months. Hopefully the first because I am already over the waiting and not knowing what we can/ can't plan.
Fingers crossed
Inpatient
Kim

Hi Kim,

i reguarly read on here but hardly comment - wow sounds as if you are already not looking forward to the wait - i am now 5 weeks pregnant and i was just saying to my g/f the other day - the wait is so much longer for those of us that are charting from the beginning, testing, having bloods, financial cost - the list goes on - deciding and the like.

Brisbane seems a fairly relaxed place to have a baby - as opposed to Sydney - where i had my last baby.

Best of luck and try not to wish it all away - its a good little discovery journey although it is long and im regularly impatient...as they say its all part of the journey - i try and remember this... and one day you will wonder why it went so fast - i do regularly -

cheers
Levi