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We have a beautiful new deck to sit on, and S has built some awesome paths through the garden so we are feeling very impressed with our back yard.

We don’t know when my first frozen embryo transfer(FET) will be. More waiting!!! It all depends how cranky my body is and how soon it stops sulking and starts ovulating again. We are hoping it’ll be by Easter so we can go camping for a few days.

I had an annoying scare when a dim-witted nurse couldn’t find record of our frozen embryos on her computer and suggested to me that maybe they’d all ‘arrested’ (kicked the bucket). This was also the day I got my period. I told her to keep looking and somehow didn’t yell at her. She rang back an hour later when she found them.

Thank-you to all our wonderful friends who have given us so much love and support during our hormonally challenged weeks… We’ve been the recipients of warm text messages, blog comments and emails, bolstering phonecalls and hugs and pats on the back, forgiveness for functions we’ve been unable to attend, yellow roses, home baked bread(with special fertility eggs on top), cards, heartfelt mutual sighing and so on. You guys rock.

Family. Well… Unfortunately, some of our family are still under the evil influence of the all pervasive urban myth that one must ‘relax’ in order to conceive. That we are still ‘trying too hard’. Please visit afore-mentioned infertility ’study’ for amusement and correction. What can I say… I’m pretty sure that anyone who has arrived at IVF is not going to waltz in with a cavalier attitude to getting pregnant. I’m pretty damn sure that the doctors, nurses, counsellors and scientists are going to be trying their hardest to make your thousands of dollars and months of invasive treatment pay off as quickly as possible.

I’m not sure how you can do IVF and ‘relax’ and ‘not try too hard’.
Anyone with a better understanding of this conundrum can feel free to email us!

So… I’ll have one or two more tries before taking a break for a few months to let Sorenson have a now long-awaited go at getting pregnant.