Well I still haven't ovulated. At this rate we could have waited until our donor was back from his weekend away. I'm still getting twinges, positive ovulation predictor tests and fertile mucus. I've been reminding myself of things by researching online and the stats on how long sperm can survive inside the body vary between 2-3 and 5-7 days. I did ( Read more... )

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In a week or so's time, this journal will be four years old. I always hoped that one day I'd be able to write the kind of entries I can write now, talking about our child, and how much they enrich our lives. It's true, Ember is more fabulous than we could ever have hoped, but when I think of writing in this journal, I find other thoughts come to ( Read more... )

It's taken a long time to get round to writing this, my story of Ember's birth. However, I'm lucky and I have write ups by both my midwife and my sister to help me get things in the right order - much of the first 24 hours or so are something of a blur to me now. But here goes. The birth of Ember Joy.

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I'm sorry that it's taken me so long to get on here and make this announcement. The last week or so have been rather busy, but in the nicest possible way ( Read more... )

Well, we're now well into the 'full term' time, just about to hit 38 weeks, and my body is getting ready to birth this baby. I've been contracting on and off for the last week, occasionally getting to the point of having them every ten minutes or so for a while, but they always seem to ease off again eventually. The last few nights I've been woken ( Read more... )

We've just come back from our last holiday alone together. It's been very lovely on one level - ten days in P's parent's caravan which is right by the coast in a stunning part of South West Wales. We always enjoy it down there, but I have to admit I found it a little tough going. I didn't get stuck in any of the caravan doors though, which I did ( Read more... )

I just thought I'd post a quick updated bump picture.


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We saw our midwife this morning. According to the size of my bump and the personalised growth chart that the hospital worked out for me, this baby now weighs something in the region of 5lb 9 oz. When I was born at 36 weeks, I weighed 5lb 7 oz, so if the charts are accurate, this baby has now outgrown me, in a manner of speaking at least. Our ( Read more... )

For the last ten minutes, our baby has had hiccups. S/he has been getting them a lot recently. It feels really funny, in a nice way.