Warm and Dry

I just heard that Roderick unfortunately had an accident early this morning. His car overturned and was completely smashed up. However, fortunately, he was unharmed bar a few scratches and some bruising to his ribs. He did go to hospital to confirm that he has no internal injuries and all is thankfully well. Apparently if he had a passenger they would not have made it, just like the car, but unusally he was all alone.

We are back from Butlins and had a wonderful time. Arthur in particular was completely enthralled. He met Bob the Builder, Angelina Ballerina, Fireman Sam, Barney, Billy the Bear and even Barney (who strangely he did not want to have a photograph taken with him). I must write more about it… Owen took some great photos too, so I must add them to my blog.

We are enjoying father’s day in Butlins. However Arthur, Luck & Chance have a message for Daddy…

Happy Father’s Day

With Lots of Love!!

I have been shopping with Roderick & Randolph over the past couple of days. We hit a number of shops including Tesco, Asda, M&S, Mothercare and so on. The worst bit was other than Mothercare I could not find any maternity clothes! As for the clothes in Mothercare, they were expensive and really nothing to write home about. You would think that an everyday black pair of maternity trousers would be a piece of cake!! Not quite.

At least the boys managed a load of shopping!

Today we received our official results. And it is good news!! We have a positive result with our HCG levels well over 1000. Owen and I are over the moon. Arthur has told everyone that “I am the big brother”.

We are almost shell shocked. Yes, we were doing fertility treatment, but after our past experiences, well we were not expecting it to work. The truth is the success rate of FET – Frozen Embryo Transfer is around 7%. Which consider a full treatment is around 20 – 25% and it took us 4 tries. Well, we did not hold our hopes up high. We said it would all be down to Chance and Luck. Well it worked!!

It still feels strange because it took over 1.5 years to push Homerton into getting the treatment started. We actually gave up and transfered to Leeds Infirmiry but even the transfer took months because Homerton kept losing papers etc. When Mrs Moroney called to say the embryos were finally transfered and to pop in for a visit, well we did not expect to really start treatment. We were expecting some more delays. So when we had a quick injection and were told, well that is your treatment started – it did not sink in. Even our medication was minimal. No injections whatsoever – just tablets and pessaries! Between Christmas and Arthur‘s Birthday… well, we almost did not even think about it (well… it was easy to not pin our Hopes up – especially as we already had Hope)!

So almost 3 years after Arthur was born, we had our cycle. And now… we are proud to say we are pregnant!

I cannot wait to do up the nursery again with baby furniture and a cot, and get out all the baby clothes!!

Yes Owen, Arthur and I are over the moon!

Owen and I are back from Leeds. And so now it is down to waiting time. It is so frustrating. You just wish that you can just do the test and get it over and done with. It is not like you are going to get certificate authentication when you get a positive result but the truth is there is power in knowing. I don’t mind if it is not positive, (ok I do mind) but at least I know and can just continue as close to normal as possible. Meanwhile here is to the tremendously long wait where time slows down. Still you never know, I might end up with another Arthur!

Today I had 2 embryos transfered. We called the Luck and Chance because that is what it is now going to boil down to. I wish I could do more, but I cannot. I know Hope worked, because we had Arthur… Now with a little Luck and some Chance, we could have a sibling or two for Arthur.

I must say I was impressed how quickly this whole treatment went by. It made me realise that hospitals like Homerton really need to improve application availability because leaving me wait 2 years was riddiculous. At least this went smoothly and truthfully before I knew it, here I was having Luck and Chance implanted. My fingers are crossed now.

It is Arthur‘s Birthday on Sunday. He is going to be 3! I am all organised (I hope) for his party. The only sad bit is that with family all over the world, not everyone can be at the party with us. It would be so wonderful if we could have live event video streaming so that everyone could be there. I know that Roderick and Randolph and Owen‘s Parents would love to be there and this would be a way to do it. Sadly I am not organised enough to get it sorted. So sorry everyone!

Merry Christmas to each and everyone!

Many Christmas Blessings to all.

We took Arthur to see Santa for Christmas at the home of rest for old horses. He asked Santa for Drums!!