Easter eggs

Introducing our baby, hopefully coming to a uterus in us soon

I don't want an Easter egg, I want a keen blastocyst x

Goodbye 10ml syringes

So once again our minds have changed. After much discussion we have decided to stop doing home inseminations. This cycle my eggs decided to randomly cling on to my ovaries and pop out a week late so the sperm last week was pretty much futile and then our donor cancelled on us for any further donations this month due to 'being ill'. We also decided that we are through with being at the mercy of donors and hoping they do not turn out to be complete and utter weirdos. Our current donor had a name on his profile which we took to be his (like you would) and the other day in a text, signed off with a completely different name, which although they have the right to privacy, just really made me think about what else he can lie about and just made us both feel really uneasy.

We have therefore decided to apply for NHS funding for iui/ivf in a clinic and go down that route instead. It is such a difficult and emotionally fraught journey and we are so ready to move on to the next stage because it doesn't feel like we are getting very far at all. My wife needs to lose 35 pounds first to meet the criteria and then we will start that ball rolling. It is all taking even longer than we ever imagined it would but fuck it right. We will get there and it will be so worth it.

Donation day

As I write this, sperm is very slowly hurtling itself through my cervix towards an egg. Though I have not got a positive ovulation test yet so I hope they pace themselves.

Not feeling too good about my timing this cycle. I am day 15 today and usually have a positive opk today and ovulate on day 16 but also had a day 17 and 18 too. I really do hope they pace themselves in there because it is the only donation I am getting this cycle!