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Patterns in time
I have always been drawn to and looked for patterns in time, in the way events fit into and around each other. It's just one of the little quirks of my brain ( Read more... ) -
Not going
I'm not going to Bicon. Since missing the Big Bi Fun Day the other week I've regretted not thinking about trying to get to at least some of Bicon, but short notice just doesn't work around here any more. It will probably be next year before I get to go to any bi events now and given I'm feeling the desire to reconnect there it does feel a bit of a ( Read more... ) -
Good old ovaries
I just heard that 14 of the 24 eggs they collected have fertilised. Now it's just a matter of seeing how they divide over the coming days before they decide when to transfer and see if there are any to freeze. There's a fair chance they'll get some frosties with that number. How fab is that ( Read more... ) -
Popped
They got 24 eggs. This is about double the average amount they normally collect and I'm now at risk of late-onset hyperstimulation so I have new drugs to take. The tablets are tiny little things, which is good, but the list of side effects includes things like 'an extreme out-of-character compulsion to gamble' and I can't drive on them which is a ( Read more... ) -
Ready to pop
My ovaries are huge. At my scan on Friday morning there were 28 follicles over 10mm cross, and several of those were over 20mm. Anything over 10mm can contain a viable egg and as I still had two more days of stimulation meds to go so it's likely there are more now. I am enormous. I look as though I'm about 5 months pregnant. Thank goodness for ( Read more... ) -
A whole new world
I'm typing this one handed with a sleepy baby on my lap. What a wonderful thing to be able to say ( Read more... ) -
Karmic ponderings
I know that the universe did us an amazing favour by letting us have this house. There was so much stacked against us winning it, but it came to us and we will always be grateful for that. We are paying for it now though, as though we used up all our karmic grace and are now in significant debt. So far in the last few weeks ( Read more... ) -
A good day
Today I ran two workshops at the annual conference of the Association of Radical Midwives. I was pretty nervous beforehand. I've only been working in the pregnancy and birth field for four and bit years so I felt a bit junior to be presenting at an event alongside some of the biggest names in the business. I felt a bit better when I'd been there a ( Read more... ) -
A need for change - and a request for assistance
Well, we've reached that point. We always knew it was a possibility when taking on the hefty mortgage for this lovely big old house, but four months in it's clear we need more income, so it's time for me to bite the bullet and find myself a job ( Read more... ) -
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Yesterday was the kind of day we always dreamed about in our plan to move out into the sticks. We coppiced some of our own hazel rods to make a leaf mould bin, made it, then spent a happy few hours filling it with assistance from Ember, who kept wanting to take breaks to be pushed around the garden in the wheelbarrow. Then I used the off-cut ( Read more... )