Im Back...

So after a little break over New Years and summer... I’m back!
Yesterday we went to the hospital for first series of meetings with the councillor and nurse.
The counsellor discussed the emotional journey, the nurse discussed the medical journey, and then a lady from admin discussed our financial journey!
I don’t know which one is going to be more painful!

Because of my PCOS, it was made clear that there is a rather large chance that the first cycle of IVF could be cancelled part way through as I’m likely to produce too many or too few follicles. So the first round might be more like a calibration.

We have been offered a place in a couple forum nights at the hospital, a chance to meet people going through a similar journey and ask as many questions as I can think of. I also decided that there is still so much hush hush and taboo around IVF... my parents even  discuss the process in whispers!

 So rather than eventually telling our friends one by one, or hiding it, or being ashamed or embarrassed, I decided to put it on my facebook status and tell them all at once! It felt really liberating to get it out there... now everyone knows, I can’t take it back...and the 50 or so messages of love and support made me so happy I cried.