baybeasts

It’s amazing how enjoyable life is when you’re not stuck in the hellish two week wait! We’ve had a lovely weekend. We learnt how to play backgammon over my mouth watering Thai chicken salad, and had cocktails tested on us by our lovely friends S and K. Guilt-free grog tastes better. Today was filled with trips to the library, shops, local pool and a visit to our chickens (housed with S & K). Sorenson is currently concocting (home grown) apricot jam as well as oven baked snapper with roast vegies for dinner. All of the vegies are from our garden – parsnips, carrots, onions, potato and beetroot. Yum.

I’ve borrowed 5 books from the library – mostly about the mechanics of infertility treatment (I rejected another 4 books that were 15-20 years old!). I’m really craving personal stories though. There are two blogs that I have found incredibly helpful. The archives are worth checking out: So Close and A Little Pregnant. Luckily, they both have kids now and correspondingly little sleep. I hope our trip into IV Festy turns out to be less horrific.

I’ve been having bad dreams about babies. Usually, someone is trying to take our baby away from us, or has succeeded. I won’t feel really OK until our donor and his wife (D & W !) have signed the consent for IVF. It was such a shock to learn that they have ethical issues about frozen embryos. We had mentioned IVF in our parenting agreement, but clearly in not enough detail. I’m so angry with our IVF company for not giving us any warning that D & W would have to sign yet another (but all new) consent form. We had been through this process twelve months ago when they consented to D.I.Y. insemination. We thought that the consent would cover a move to IVF, and not our IVF Doctor, nor IVF nurse, nor IVF counsellor told us any different til it was too late to get it. (D & W have gone on a long holiday).

Such a bugger.

Still… no two week wait (i.e. potential pregnancy) means complete freedom to have

a drink
hot baths
sex
orgasms any old where
caffeine
gross amounts of sugar
hair washing with the most toxic anti-dandruff shampoo available
a coughing fit without worrying I have dislodged the few vital cells