Wow I am not sure were to start with this blog. I have left it a bit long again. Mainly due to so much work at the minute, I have been up and down the motorway since the New Year more times than can be healthy!

Anyway we have had some huge progress in the last couple of weeks, we had our first scan at 8 weeks and 2 days. I had been so confident about everything since we got our positive result. Despite our 2 prior miscarriages I was sure everything would be fine. I know medically speaking that you can have a miscarriage for any number of reasons. I had convinced myself that getting to Blasto cyst stage with a top grade Embryo made things less likely to go wrong. I know this is not factual, but logically I had convinced myself it was. I think it is more believe what you want rather than what is right

Poor Liz had been worried sick and she had convinced herself of the opposite, she thought it could not possibly be ok. she was so worried. I felt great right up to the minute we walked into the scan room. I suddenly realised that our happiness at getting a positive could all be undone in a matter of seconds. From a purely male point of view I can only compare it to your Football team been a goal up in the cup final. You think the match is won then the referee holds up 5 minutes of added time and your nerves are on edge. Well the very nice scan lady said she might be a few minutes looking around and not to worry if she didn’t say anything for a minute or two. Liz was looking at me to see if my reaction would tell her if things were good or bad. Not sure why as I had no idea what I was looking at on the screen The lady was so quick and showed us the heart beat and said it all looked really good. It was instant relief the ref had blown the whistle and we had won the game. Whoop Whoop. The baby was sixed at 8 weeks and 3 days which 1 day ahead of what we thought. It was a huge relief.

I know this is far from a guarentee but it is another hurdle crossed. As above the game really isnt over, in fact its not even half time! But we felt huge happiness and relief that at this moment in time things are ok. Liz has now been discharged from the IVF clinic to the local midwife. She is in the process of writing to confirm a 12 week scan date. Hopefully this will go just as well and we can look forward to a smooth happy pregnancy.

In the excitement of it we got some of our old baby things out of the loft, most if it is 9 years old now. We did find some nice outfits if it is a boy and some cool baby swings/carriers. We just need to be real good now and not rush out to buy lots of things just yet.

It is going to be a huge exciting to change for everyone in our household when this lovely bundle of joy arrives. We have a near 13 year old a 9 year old in the house and it will be shock to them and our dog. We are all really excited by it now. We told family who were aware of the treatment that we had the successful scan, they are all really happy for us and some of them are getting a bit carried away starting knitting and stuff

I guess I will probably next blog after the 12 weeks scan, I dont want to bore anyone will to much information. In reality this blog has always been more of a diary for oursleves in the future. But if it provides any useful information, help or support for anyone else that is great.

We are not very good on twitter and I am sorry for not getting more involved in that. You all seem so close and friendly it seemed strange to jump in on that. We are pretty quiet in the real world though so maybe with a bit of shove we might get more involved. Please don’t think we are rude though, just don’t want to embarrass ourselves saying something stupid or upset/offend anyone.

Good luck to everyone going through IVF and sooner or later I will figure out how to shift these adds off the side of my blog