Flip the switch After the fight, it’s like we flip a switch. We decide to spend the next two cycles doing our very ‘best’ to get pregnant. Last week, during a photo shoot, a mom (who gets pregnant easily) told me that she used ovulation tests when trying to get pregnant, and it worked for …
The day after When I wake up, he’s not next to me. I don’t know if he’s already gotten out of bed, or whether he never came to bed. I look like a frog, with my swollen eyes. I’m not angry any more, just very, very sad. What a horrific night. Luckily our Swedish friends …
The lost egg My ovaries, tubes, uterus and ovulation all pass the tests. Whew! They give us the green light and it’s time to start seriously trying! In June I got my period, so on we go, to catch the next egg! As I wrote earlier I always feel my ovulation. And not just briefly, …
My check-up On the 25th of June 2013 I head back to the hospital for my check-up. I go alone, because it’s hard for Denny to get time off. The hospital is so far that you easily lose half a day going back and forth and if it’s not necessary for both of us to …
Seriously trying We leave the hospital with mixed feelings. We’ve decided that we’ll first try to fall pregnant naturally and if it doesn’t happen we’ll contact the hospital again in September. We’ve been given all the information about IUI, so that we can start immediately at that time, if we want to and we won’t …
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 …
Imagining I don’t know how it is with other couples, that moment that you decide to go for it. How was it for you? My imagination takes flight; what will she (yes, I imagine in the feminine form 😉 ) look like, will she look like her half brother Max, or her half-sister Bo, where …