Please Introduce Yourself!

**Chickpea_MidStudent** · August 10th, 2009, 08:46 PM

... i forgot to mention i'm in melbourne, vic. i live in the brunswick area. but school is in the city...

**Beth-n-Sara** · August 10th, 2009, 09:05 PM

Hi there Chickpea, I'd just like to say welcome and what a fantastic idea!
We're not pregnant yet but fingers crossed it will happen soon. I'm in qld at the moment but we are moving down to melb as soon as we've got a baby on the way so I can be closer to my parents. I'm really keen to study midwifery myself and I'd be happy to have a student share the expirence with us -which will hopfully be a homebirth. I'll keep you posted

Good luck with your studys

**Chickpea_MidStudent** · August 11th, 2009, 02:08 PM

Hey beth and sara...

Thanks for the welcome and great reaction! I was a bit hesitant asking, but I know that's the only way I'll find out, and yours is just the reaction I love to hear!!!

Fingers crossed for you two, I hope it goes as smoothly as possible.

How cool that you want to study miwifery too. It's great, I'm so excited to be a midwife in 2 1/2 years. The course is full on, and everyone says it's a rollercoaster. There are so many aspects you have to learn about that you don't even think of. But it's worth it, and can be really great some days too!

I'm still learning about all the different conception options. Have you already explained what you two are trying? I'd be interested to find out as much as you'd like to tell!

Homebirth sounds great! Thanks again.

**Beth-n-Sara** · August 13th, 2009, 11:15 AM

Hey Chickpea, We are TTC with Queensland Fertility Group, Doing IUI's with an unknown american donor. If you look in the left top corner of this post you'll see a link to my blog (which I have been very slack at updating) and I go into quite a bit (too much ,lol) detail on there about the IUI procedure

We have been getting very poor responses to the 100mg of clomid so we're having a break while we decide to try a different medication with the IUI's or move straight onto IVF.

**Chickpea_MidStudent** · August 25th, 2009, 06:23 AM

Hey beth and sarah,

I love all your blogs, they're great. So real, and genuine, it's good reading them. I get a feel for what you are going through, which is really interesting from a midwifery point of view. It's good to realise how much goes into getting pregnant for some couples. I think having that knowledge can definately help me support women better when they're pregnant. Knowing what they had to go through to get there!

And for me, a look into my possible future, when I start trying to have my own babies.

Thanks for your openess.

Chickpea

**Lindley** · October 24th, 2009, 04:16 AM

Popping in to say hello.

I'm an Adelaide girl and probably always will be, but I'm currently living in the UK with my wife, and we are just getting started after realising that adoption wasn't right for us after all.

**Sally2** · October 25th, 2009, 07:33 AM

Welcome Lindley and good luck on your trying to conceive journey!

**angelicgirl** · November 11th, 2009, 09:57 PM

Hey guys
Im a british midwife who has been around this side of the world a while... I do agency so currently get around most of Brisbanes maternity hospitals... maybe i will come across some of you ;-)
My partner and Ihave been down this road before with 6 months of donor insemination with no luck in sydney... we gave it a rest for a year.... wahhhhhhhhhhh for the emotional journey!!! and now we are in Brisbane and thought we would give it another bash.... now i know i am a midwife but can anyone recommend a gay friendly IVF doctor/clinic as some of you have probaly had some good experiences. It would be great to get a recommendation... also we are keen to use my partners egg in my belly as mine are probaly a bit old and also this idea makes us smile.....
Its a big journey... i wish you all super sparkly luck....
oh also we are keen on making some new friends as we left ours in sydney :-((
weekend afternoon food get togethers are my thing... I shall feed you :-) ...
would love to meet lovely like minded women to share laughter and chats.... get in touch.. we are in pinjarra hills with 6 chooks and 4 dogs.... the dogs make one dog if you stuck them all together!!!! .... our place is big there is room for plenty...
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**Shades** · November 16th, 2009, 07:31 PM

welcome angelicgirl

I think QLD Fertility Group in Bris are quite open- minded

**hierophant** · November 17th, 2009, 09:09 PM

though I'm not in QLD and haven't used them myself, I've heard good reports about Queensland Fertility Group being very accepting of lesbian couples.

**cath&denise** · November 18th, 2009, 06:33 PM

We have been going through Queensland Fertility Group and have been very happy.

Good luck.

Cath

**Indigograce** · November 29th, 2009, 09:40 AM

After reading through this thread I thought i'd do an intro too! I'm Wendy and with my partner of 7 yrs Nic, we are awaiting the arrival of our twins concieved through donor insemination - a 'home job' as we like to call it. I already had 2 children from a previous hetro relationship who are now 13 and 9 and very much looking forward to being big brothers to thier new boy and girl siblings. We live in a northern WA town which is surprisingly good, but we miss being a part of a glbti community.
I'm almost embarrased to say how easy it was for me to get pregnant

The twin thing was quite a shock though! Because we are expecting twins we get a lot of people asking if we concieved 'naturally' or through IVF. I am constantly amazed at how intrusive complete strangers can be with thier questions about conception!

Anyway, great reading through the forum and good luck to all the lovely ladies TTC!

xx

**JORACH** · January 7th, 2010, 03:12 PM

Hi all... I'm Rachel. Just found this forum thanks to the SameSame Forums.

My partner Jo and I are just about to begin the journey of starting a family. It seems like such a long road ahead of us. It's very daunting.

We live in Toowoomba and are planning on going to the Queensland Fertility Group in Brisbane. Our first job is to find a Specialist Doctor. Would love it if anyone has any recommendations of which doctor to see at Queensland Fertility Group. Hope the waiting list isn't that long...

All advice or experiences are very welcome.

Anyway, What a great forum this is. Look forward to chatting with you all.

Jo and Rach

**jayjay24** · January 10th, 2010, 10:45 AM

Hey,

My partner is on here all the time and giving me the run down on everything so I decided it was time I came on myself lol Nuse27 is my partner and we are still TTC but we have been given the green light finally to start our IVF cycles in May this year! So over the next few months its saving money time! lol

xxx

**nudels** · January 16th, 2010, 10:07 AM

Hi everyone,

My wife (and partner) of 12 years and I welcomed our gorgeous identical twin boys Jasper and Callum on 22 December 2009.

Best wishes to everyone with their journeys!

cheers
Ada

**Sally2** · January 16th, 2010, 10:30 AM

Welcome Ada with her wife and identical twin boys !! How exciting, congratulations!!

Welcome everyone else, including jayjay as the partner of a prolific g&l posting gal in nurse27! Good luck for the two of you starting ivf in may, wow!

Welcome, welcome, welcome

**BNE2009** · January 21st, 2010, 10:14 AM

Hello,

My partner and I are planning to get pregnant this year. We are so exited. I have been looking for a place to express my thoughts and have feed back. By the way my partners friend, who is now one of my closes friends as well, and her partner are also planning to get pregnant around the time we are planning. It is great to have another person to talk to about the up and downs. We both feel that at least we have a good support system. But we both felt alone because we did not want to feel like we were going thru the up and downs alone. It is not easy being a lesbians and getting pregnant. Especially since we do not know how our families will feel about it. We are so afraid to tell them. It is something that we will not be able to deal with. But that will not stop us from creating our family.

**JORACH** · January 23rd, 2010, 01:47 PM

Hi and welcome. This forum is great! I'm actually only new to it (probably been on for about 2 or 3 weeks now).

My partner Jo and I are hoping to get pregnant this year. So fingers crossed for all of us.

I have decided not to tell my mum until I'm pregnant (mainly cos at the moment she "doesn't want to talk about it" or "can't talk about it"- she's just a little to straight thinking and believes in upholding high christian values) And yes I am afraid to tell her. But I'm sure the rest of our families will be happy for us. Most of them know that we want to have children.

But your definitely not alone.