Babies Galore

Well it has been a while since either of us last posted on our blog. Busy - yes, not a huge amount to report - yes, slack - maybe a little!!

Anyways here I am with an update not only about where we are at with our journey, but with baby news that spans our enormous nation. Lets start with everyone else's news first (a bit more exciting than ours at this point!). January saw some very dear friends of ours welcome a gorgeous little girl in to the world. Lily was conceived on a first IVF attempt in 2009 and we have had the pleasure of spending some time with her and her Mum's this past week.

February has turned out to be "Baby Month". Friends of mine in Adelaide (Jo&Tim) had their second baby - Owen in the first week of Feb and just a few days ago Ben and Vee gave birth to a daughter Giselle. Also, friends Rachel and Glenn in Perth welcomed a boy, Taylor into their family after several difficult years of TTC and IVF (congrats guys you did it!!). However, it doesn't end there. Unexpectedly and 8 weeks early Kylie's brother and his wife delivered a small, but handsome young fellow called Jake (see below) in the wee small hours of Sunday night/Monday morning. Yep - Kylie is a first time Aunt and pretty darn chuffed about it all. The little fella has to stay in hospital for a couple of weeks so we haven't met him in person as yet, but as soon as we get the nod, a trip to Rockhampton is on the cards.

Now to our news - well we have spent the past couple of  months doing the usual day to day stuff we call life. In addition, we have visited the IVF Psychologist a few times to help prepare for the whole process which in essence began for us on Monday. I am now on the pill to help regulate my cycle and get it to fit exactly with our egg retrieval which is scheduled for April 14. Towards the end of March we will have to see the Nurses to get the nasal spray and hormone injections which will begin April 1.

In closing we would love to congratulate every one on their new arrivals and for those like us who are trying (IVF-ers in particular) -some advice passed on to us - 'live your life and oh, by the way you're doing IVF'.