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The 2 week wait every month was excruciating, it‟s nailbiting enough when trying naturally – add a few doctors,
nurses, drugs, and a decreasing bank balance into the
pot and it can bring you to your knees. We had 3 failed
attempts at IUI, our next option was
IVF.
As it turned out we were due to fly
home for good before we made it to
IVF. In some ways I was glad as I really couldn‟t go
through any more at the time.
As soon as we were settled we went to our GP and
handed over our notes from Singapore, she immediately
referred us to Gloucester for an appointment with their
IVF specialist. The appointment came through for a few
months later….but we didn‟t keep it, as I discovered that
I was pregnant and due in March!!! We‟d done it!!
Yipeee!! Totally unexpected – we were over the moon.
I put it down to a drastic change in diet of high protein/
no carbs and Rob put it down to the cooler weather for
his boys down under – who knows, perhaps it was both
or neither?
I suffered terribly with morning sickness all day every
day for the first few months, but once that was over it
was a relatively straight forward pregnancy – as my midwife put it once on one visit „boringly healthy‟!
I remember the week leading up to my due date, I read
in my stars that someone talented will join our family this
week. Robs stars said that his future lies with a sports
stadium. On Saturday 11th March, I washed 2 cars and
went shopping with my mum-in-law while Rob went to
watch football with his dad. While we were out shopping
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