We went off to the local midwife-led unit yesterday afternoon for our official booking in appointment. It went well, although it was lengthy - there was just a lot of paperwork to get through detailing all my relevant medical and birth  history. We did get a tour of the unit which was nice to see, not that we'll be using it. We'll be birthing at ( Read more... )

Yesterday we went for our early reassurance scan. My nerves built up for several days beforehand. P was apparently fine until we started walking across the car park to the maternity unit, and extremely nervous once we made it into the scanning room. I wasn't sure if they'd do an internal or external scan, but had a full bladder in case they went ( Read more... )

I figured it was time for an update ( Read more... )

We did another test this morning and within seconds that second line was glaring at us. By the time the 'official' five minutes had past it was as dark as a very dark thing. My body is positively oozing hCG so something is clearly doing what it should be. And the tiredness is being nicely erratic but overpowering when it comes. On Saturday we had ( Read more... )

After we got our first pregnancy test last week we did a test every morning for seven days. The lines kept getting darker, but other than tingly breasts and abdominal cramps - both of which could in theory be caused by an imminent period - I had no other sign to go on that a miracle was happening inside me. For the last two days we haven't tested ( Read more... )

Today is a good day ( Read more... )

It's been five days now and we're still getting positive pregnancy tests with progressively darker lines on them. My boobs feel pretty much ready to explode and the period style cramps have stepped up a notch. I'm a bit more relaxed about that this time because I remember how painful they were in the first few weeks last time. It feels like a ( Read more... )

The test this morning was significantly darker than yesterday's, and I woke this morning to a little brown spotting, so implantation seems to have sorted itself out too ( Read more... )

Things went well at the fertility clinic, pretty much exactly as I'd predicted. We were given another appointment in three months and I was set a target of another stone in weight to drop ( Read more... )

We are now 6 days post insemination. I have now stopped having twinges and I no longer have fertile mucus. I'm guessing this means that I either had a very subtle ovulation at some point between three and five days post insemination or my body has given up and has gone into an extended limbo period, again. Time will tell on that one. What I do know ( Read more... )