Was it the lolly, or the bath? | Birth photographer At the beginning of the year I received an email from Janneke, who is a midwife. She wrote: “We had contact some time ago in my capacity as a midwife. Right now I am cautiously pregnant with baby number 3. Just 5 weeks or …
No chance? This meeting is going totally differently to how I expected. Do we radiate some kind of ‘we want to start fertility treatment NOW’ aura? I don’t want that at all! I want a baby, but not at any cost. I repeat my question: “Is there no chance of a natural pregnancy for us? …
The meeting with the doctor I try to quiz Denny about what “the wank room” (haha!) looks like, but since we’re not sitting here alone, he won’t say a word. He just keeps giving me those ‘shut up!’ looks. 🙂 He hates it when I do things like this in front of other people – …
To the hospital After they have left I talk to Denny and he agrees that a visit to the doctor is a good idea. We don’t have to start fertility treatments immediately, but it would be nice to know whether there is any point to ‘trying’ naturally. We decide to make a good start straight …
Antibodies Yesterday I had an introductory meeting with a couple for birth photography. The woman was pregnant with her third child and told me that this child was very strongly desired. She and her husband already had 2 children and once the second child was born they reached a compromise. He would go for a …