I’ve been rather excited about starting this blog for months and now I’m feeling nervous. Although immediate family have known about our TTC (trying to conceive) plans since the beginning, and have been more than supportive, I’m nervous about how other family and friends will react to the news of our plans to have a baby. As much as I want to share all the ups and downs of TTC with everyone, I’m nervous about that, too. I’ve been reading TTC blogs for about 6 months now, and just about everything I know about IVF and same sex couples trying to conceive, have come from these blogs. I want our blog to be a source of information for future couples preparing to embark on this journey, just like the great blogs I’ve been reading. It’s also cheap therapy! But most importantly, the purpose of this blog is to document everything in the hopes of showing it to our future child sometime down the track.
Kate, my loving other half, and I met via Twitter about 2 years ago and became firm friends. We met in person and then started a relationship just over a year ago and are now happily engaged and living in Sydney. My desire to have a baby has never been a secret and we started discussing in June/July last year when the right time to have a baby would be. We both decided to start sooner rather than later, after reading and hearing of stories where conceiving a baby has taken years. We organised our private health insurance, started saving, and attended a same sex baby making seminar at a fertility clinic. In December, I had my lady parts poked and prodded to make sure everything looked right to go and received our doctor’s referral for our VERY FIRST appointment to get the ball rolling, which will be in February. Then there’s a 3 month cooling off period (I’m pretty sure the last 7 months has been adequate enough) before we actually begin IVF, either at the end of May or the end of June. We’re very excited and a little scared.
