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Lifeslurper resides in a big brown land called Auuustralia. Her early years remain a mystery cloaked in a veil of depression. Age 42 Lifeslurper meets the vague but gorgeous Wobbles. “What took him so long to arrive?” She asks. They make their way together in the world just fine, but are not fine to make a baby – not without some outside help. Enter ART and 2008 the year of 4 IVF cycles & one lousy big fat negative. Lifeslurper is now 46 years old! Time for a baby is running out fast, so too is her sanity. Now it's 2010 - Lifeslurper and Wobbles are getting serious about this baby making business. Donor Egg Cycles are the way of the future and the future is NOW!

Greetings from Lap Land!

Or should that read; I visited Laparoscopy and all I got was this lousy infection? 

It is over a week since my lap. Even now I am not even sure if I actually had the suggested d&c.

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The least worst of IVF

Lifeslurper has been experiencing the birthday blues particularly badly. Prior to IVF never did I fear the clicking over of another year. Signing up for ART at 42 my age was said to make a successful attempt at IVF unlikely. This week I turned 44.

 

All along advanced age has been suggested as the ultimate handicap to IVF. Yet logic tells me it can’t be. There are many other impediments in this infertility malarkey; they can be physical, emotional or financial to name just a few. I am merely experiencing one limitation (that I am currently aware of) of which there are countless more.

 

On any given day my fertility clinic peers are years (decades even!) younger. Some are even older. Many have gynaecological diseases, such as endometriosis, or important baby making equipment missing, such as an ovary or a fallopian tube (or two) due to reasons of hereditary or disease.  Others have experienced non-gynaecological disease, such as cancer, resulting in their fertility being affected. Women might also be given the label of ‘unexplained infertility’ which can’t be much of a diagnosis at all to those it is directed.

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