Its been a nervy few weeks since our first positive test, my partner hasn’t showed a lot of symptoms and we weren’t really feeling pregnant as a couple so we were really looking forward to today’s scan, hoping that it would make the whole thing a bit more real! Continue reading Pregnancy Confirmation Scan
Category: Infertility
An Irishman’s Infertility and IVF story.
Pregnancy Test Kits & Confusion
My recent experience with our pregnancy test and the confusion I felt over the results and which my partner has since admitted to also (although indirectly!) has got me thinking of novel ways to avoid pregnancy test confusion. Continue reading Pregnancy Test Kits & Confusion
Positive Pregnancy Test
So the waiting is over (worst 2 weeks in a while!) and this morning we got our first ever positive pregnancy result. Continue reading Positive Pregnancy Test
Infertility Progress
So a progress update. We got 6 eggs the other day, a full box! and all 6 had fertilised the next morning. Continue reading Infertility Progress
Big IVF Week ahead
So we’re off back to bloody Galway again (sick of the place now..) at the crack of dawn tomorrow so the doctors can try to get some eggs from my partner. Its the furthest stage we’ve reached since we started treatment about 4/5 years ago in Dublin and its getting exiting but we have WAY more to loose than ever before. Continue reading Big IVF Week ahead
Infertility and Men
Myself and my partner have been trying for babies for about 4/5 years. The infertility problem is on her side and we’ve tried most of the medical options available to her at least once without success. We’re now going through the expensive and emotional IVF last chance saloon doors. Continue reading Infertility and Men