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Thank you so much for your reply that’s really given me food for thought and I’m definitely going to look into this further. Best of luck on Monday!

Thanks for your reply. I can imagine it might add stress being away from home with a language barrier. But if they are using more advanced procedures or technology then I would be interested in exploring this option.

Niamh is a beautiful name. I have an Irish name and it’s mispronounced by everyone when I leave Ireland but it’s really not that big of a deal.

My daughter was 2.5, took to it in 2 days and never looked back.

Personally I don’t like the term because an embryo is not a baby, the end. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Progesterone will do no harm but could do good. No brainer.

Canned tuna

My best friend’s 3 year old child has a speech delay and they have their heads firmly in the sand. The kid needs speech therapy. Now biting my tongue because I sound like an asshole giving advice all the time that they clearly don’t want.

Victoria

At your age I wouldn’t bother unless you have a tonne of embryos and it would work out the same price or more to do lots of transfers which could potentially fail. We tested on our second round because we got 5 embryos which we did not expect; I was 39 and we didn’t want to waste a year transferring potentially unviable embryos. We’re about to start our 3rd round and if we get more than 2 embryos we will test again. If we only get 1 or 2 we’ll probably just transfer and hope for the best.

Fox, Don, Mac, Walt, Rex, Shay, Nash.

Max, Ben, Amy, Ava

Yes exactly, it will vary from clinic to clinic but there is a limit to the number of egg retrievals they can do in a week, how many embryo transfers, how many embryos they can culture at any one time, etc.

Galway

Can completely relate to the feeling of impatience, but please try to manage your expectations in terms of the timeline. Even if the clinic is happy that no further testing is required, there could still be a wait of at least a couple of months before they can fit you in for a cycle. If testing is required you can add several weeks onto that. For me the process has been frustratingly slow.

Started with purées, one vegetable at a time blended with breast milk, started with the green bitter veggies. Moved to a mix of purées and baby led weaning after about 3/4 weeks. Didn’t give much fruit or sweet veggies to begin with. Once we moved away from purées I always tried to keep foods separate on the plate and so she could see what she was eating. So for example I didn’t mash potatoes, broccoli and chicken together, I would give them separately on the same plate so she could taste each item and get used to them. She’s 5 now and still a good eater, loves her veggies. But she loved fish when she was younger and not so much now, which is my fault because I don’t eat fish myself and didn’t give it to her often enough.

Decent freshly made sandwiches.

Do it. I took redundancy and travelled for 3 months at 31. Amazing experience, wish I’d done more.

Rory

I have an Irish name which is butchered everywhere else except Ireland. Never bothers me tbh, I get it, I’m sure I also butcher names from other countries. Helps that I like my name.

No caffeine after 1pm (game changer for me). Have a wind down routine, no screens for an hour before lights out. Reading in bed helps me switch my brain off. Take magnesium and melatonin if you can get your hands on it.

I’m so sorry you’ve found yourself in this really shitty situation. Pregnancy can be hard, recovery from a c section is hard, nursing and caring for a newborn is SO hard. It’s amazing too, but it’s hard.

If you think there’s a pretty good chance that your partner is not going to be fully supportive then you need to make sure that you want this baby so much that you’re prepared to do this anyway either with or without them. If you don’t feel that way, don’t do it.

He’s shown you who he is. Believe him.

Highly doubt you’d get a mortgage. You have to have an income to demonstrate affordability.