I’m PREGNANT???? Oh my god, words cannot convey my excitement!  I didn’t hear Toni for about 5 minutes as I was crying and she tried to tell me that Bub’s due date is 12 June 2009, and that I have to have a scan at 6 ½ weeks which is 23 October 2008!

 

Oh my God, oh my God, oh my God!!!!!  Is this really happening?  My first cycle of IVF!  I’m going to be a MUM!  Finally!  I’m sooooo lucky! 

 

Words just cannot convey what I am thinking.  I started this journey a number of years ago as I started to get older, and realise that I might never be a mum.  I never wanted to be a single mum (hey, I still don’t), but I truly didn’t want to NOT be a mum.  And for me, the choice between the two became easier as I got older. 

 

Towards the end of 2007, I really started to get serious about doing something about it… I actually started surfing the net for information, and talking to my friends about the potential of it all.  What I struggled most to find out was about how single women went about this whole process, as every piece of information I could find out about IVF was for couples, and for donor sperm said that you had to find your own donor.

 

The only research I could find in Australia on treating single women was that they could not discriminated against by refusing to treat them.   But you still had to find your own donor.

 

I floated possibilities in front of my single male friends, I even put profiles on dating websites to see if there would be guys out there that would be willing to come to some sort of business arrangement (on an IVF basis, wasn’t looking for a series of one night stands).

 

As time wore on, I decided that I was now working in a great job that I could financially do this on my own – great work/life balance, close enough to home to not be a huge issue, a few months maternity leave and back to work part-time and working from home, easing myself into it.  But I still had to find a donor.

 

And then I hit pay-dirt when I found a clinic that would assist single women.  I found them by accident as I was researching American Sperm Donor Banks, and just started checking out their websites to see what information they had etc.  And later, I googled the name of their company and found a clinic that imports donor sperm, complies with Australian legislation, treats single women AND has no waiting list!

 

So I made myself an appointment (after more discussions with friends and research) and the rest as they say… is history!

 

I’m finally going to be a mum!  My dreams are about to come true!

 

(but I’ve not forgotten that I still have a long way to go for a live birth… the forums that I’ve been reading over the past few months have certainly pre-warned me about that, but just for today… I’m excited!)