The night of day 24/morning of day 25 I felt as though I was ovulating. Luckily, scans have showed I haven’t – and apparently it’s quite normal to feel that way at this point in…
The nurse checks out my womb lining to make sure it’s thickening appropriately, and takes the first follicle count. Has the dose of the menopur worked successfully?
We take a minute to regroup and breathe ahead of progress scan week. We’re booked in for early morning scans to monitor follicle growth on Monday, Wednesday and Friday ahead of egg collection on Monday…
It’s day 18, and we’re two days into the menopur jab. We’re still getting to grips with the mixing process, and for some strange reason, injecting the buserelin is getting more painful by the day!
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The baseline scan checks the the thickness of the lining – and to make sure the follicles are chilling, and up to nothing much… We’re full steam ahead into treatment now!
We’re a week in – no bruises on the tummy yet, but starting to resemble a pin cushion. Find out how we’re getting on…
And just like that – we’re off on our first IVF (or ICSI if you want to split hairs) cycle following the birth of our daughter, who’s now one years old. In this vlog we…
The Jellie Diary is back for cycle number two. Following the birth of their ICSI daughter in June 2017, Jamie and Ellie are busy preparing for the start of their second cycle of ICSI, due…
Over a year and a half ago after many routine tests, we finally earned the label ‘unexplained’ infertility – for better or for worse. I remember it well. We sat down with our NHS Consultant…
We couldn’t wait any longer… The results of our gender test – is it a boy, or a girl?!
The dreaded norovirus hit both of us, and I ended up in A&E on a drip…
Six weeks have passed… How we’re feeling after the 6 week scan to check for a heartbeat. Has our round of ICSI worked!?
Five days on… how we’re feeling now the news has properly sunk in.
On a high a few hours after the positive result… But we’re aware there’s a long way to go before we’re out of the woods.
It’s finally here! The day of the pregnancy test… We wake up early and… well, watch for yourself! But be warned, it’s a tear jerker.
Not wanting to tempt fate, I couldn’t let part 13 be the pregnancy test video, so here are my thoughts on the day before, just to get the bad old number 13 out of the…
The two week wait is a cruel place to be. Time ticks by so slowly… See how we’re getting on in this video.
A traumatic couple of days contending with a broken down car which stranded us in London… but there’s one embryo left that we know of so far…
The results from day two’s conversation with the embryologist – how many eggs are left in the running?
