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[othermomma]

Hi all. My partner, Nef and I are pregnant with our second! Our daughter Jayna is a preschooler now! It was time to dust off the ol' artichoke jar and syringe and get to it. We are excited but worried...troubling economy...plus, Nef had fairly serious health problems last time around that we are hoping don't strike again. I'm looking forward to getting to know everyone!

--Ro

[lalashamarla]

Hi Everyone

It has been a couple of weeks since our last post and the good news is that the blood tests came back positive, so we are officially pregant.

I will just put in a little plug for "Life Fertility Clinic" in Brisbane. The girls there are fantastic, so warm and friendly. Dr Sonya Jessop is our specialist and just fabulous... we would recommend her in a heartbeat.

We are now at the stage where we are looking at hospitals, birth centres etc. Has anyone been cared for by the midwives and given birth at the RBWH Birth Centre? This is one option that we are particularly interested as it seems to focus on natural births.

Lee-Lou: We hope that the HSG scan and psych appts went well.

Othermomma: We are definately putting it out there that none of the health issues rear their heads this time round for you both.

Cheers
L & K

[dreamrise659]

Congrats Girls on your pregnancy. Was this your first attempt? Sounds like you were very lucky. Hope the good fortune continues through your pregnancy.

the good news is that the blood tests came back positive, so we are officially pregant.

Sorry can't give advice about midwives etc as I'm in Vic but my ex partner went through a primary midwifery care program at our local hospital when she had her son and they were great. I think it's much better than Doctors if you don't have any serious medical issues as the midwives don't make it so much about the medical side of things... it seemed more relaxed.

good luck with everything.

Lori
DD 13yr old
Donor search since Dec 06, 3 AI attempts since Jan 09. Now on 1st IVF cycle.

[Izzy]

Hello

I am Izzy and I'm married to Lindley, who tells me she said hello here, too, somewhere We're in Bristol in the UK (for now) and are currently TTC. So yeah, hi!

And wonder if anyone who lived in the UK could give us help in searching for anonymous donors etc and anything you feel would be relevant for me in my situation. We are going to try through the doctor but I have no idea the process we would undergo. Possibly Iam thinking IVF but not definetely sure.

Hi Charly,

We started off with the whole going to the doctor and were put off, unfortunately.

Our doctor was pretty rubbish, though, so hopefully you'd fare better. She did point us at a clinic (that we had already investigated ourselves), told Lindley to lose weight and said that the wait for donor sperm was really long so had we considered IVF (because yeah, we so wouldn't need donor sperm for that, too, apparently).

This process is harder because of my weight issue with PCOS that is why i wanted to look into other solutions.

Oh, yes, similar issue here - endometriosis, rather than PCOS, but yeah. I sympathise! It's worth warning you that unless your BMI is under 35, clinics won't accept you, and some have even steeper weight requirements. And getting under might be really difficult if you have PCOS.

We found a donor through a fertility site, rather than through a clinic. Obviously more risky (and squicky!) in some ways but the timescales and weight restrictions seemed overwhelming. Feel free to PM me if you'd like to know more about what we've done

[nudels]

Hi ladies,

We were able to use a known donor sperm at IVF Australia Greenwich via ICSI (as my donor had a low sperm count) I was lucky enough to fall pregnant first cycle (with identical twins as luck would have it). My OB was Dr Stewart Boyce who's clinic is at Royal North Shore Private, he was lovely and the fact that my wife of 12 years was always with me never seemed to phase him.

Good luck with all your journeys, looking back, it was a path I wanted to go down for so long, I had to pinch myself when I first fell pregnant and now...my life has taken on a different journey.

Cheers
Ada

Jasper and Callum born 22/12/2009

[leelou]

Thanks lalashamarla. The HSG scan went really well. Lou has no problems with her tubes and the psychologist was really helpful and informative. We have chosen our donor (yay!!!) and are just waiting until May to start our first IUI procedure. We're renovating at the moment and want to get it finished before we start TTC.
It's fantastic to hear your news Congratulations!!! I hope that our TTC journey is not too long either. Did you use an anonymous or know donor and was it through IUI?

[trishalishous]

just wanted to say 'hi' to all the SS parents out there.
I have two mums and love hearing about SS TTC journeys.
my mums were lucky (?) in that my tummy mum was widowed, and had us kids, then fell in love with her best friend
its such a hard TTC process, I'm so glad that there's support for our families!