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I'm on a Mission

Between you and me, I wasn’t too sure about writing this blog. But after mulling it over for a while in the bath, with a large and rather wicked glass of Merlot, I came to the conclusion that it could be fun and definitely cathartic. The reason the wine was a bit naughty, and why I’ve decided to become a first time blogger, is that I’m trying to get pregnant. And I have been trying for what feels like forever.

For ladies of a certain age, like me, having a baby has become a mission.

And we’re very bored with certain quarters of the media telling us that we’ve no one else to blame but ourselves for leaving it so late. It’s not our fault that our equipment is nearly out of warranty! Believe me, if I could have avoided all the poking, prodding and legs in the air (and that’s the fun part) and done things the easy way I would have. Don’t these people realise that most of us have to go through umpteen rubbish blokes - who we wouldn’t want to share the responsibility of a goldfish with, let alone a baby - before we find our prince?

My lovely, long-suffering prince and I started trying for a baby a couple of years after we met. Three years, a lot of trying, loads of tests and an operation later and its crunch time. At the end of January we’ll be doing our first IVF cycle. And I am terrified. 

Up until now it’s seemed like a long way off, months to go, next year. In which time, as so many well-meaning souls have told us, we would probably manage it of our own accord. Unfortunately we weren’t one of those lucky couples who “relaxes” as soon as they’ve booked their first appointment at the IVF clinic and miraculously gets pregnant. All of a sudden it is next year and there’s still no sign of a baby.

So in a few weeks time I’ll be off to the hospital for yet another blood test and to collect the all important meds which will help me produce a mother load of eggs, quite literally.

Depending on who you listen to - life is a rollercoaster, a minestrone or like a box of chocolates.

To find out which one applies to me, watch this space!

Posted by Maybe Baby on January 23, 2008 at 16:21PM

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