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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!

“Which way to BabyCo?”

Once a couple of infertiles sign on for a donor egg cycle they kind of expect fireworks, girls marching to the accompaniment of a big brass band. At the very least the unfurling of a couple of streamers and the tossing of a handful of confetti would even suffice.

After great soul searching, we opened our minds and aging reproductive organs to the whole donor egg thing. We went on a clinic donor egg waiting list. We undertook mandatory counselling. We did all the stuff that is expected of couples in this position and even a bit more. Continue reading “Which way to BabyCo?”

Now…..where were we?

So there we were in the midst of the longest IVF lay-off known to this pair of infertiles.

In an instant it all changed. The world turned upside down.

One telephone call was all it took. Continue reading Now…..where were we?

Infertility Completely Leaves you Whacked!

For reasons unknown to this Lifeslurper, I have never acknowledged ICLW. So here I go about changing this rather tardy state of affairs.

IcomLeavWe (frequently shortened to ICLW) stands for International Comment Leaving Week and is the brain-child of the marvellous Mel (aka Lollipopgoldstein) over at Stirrup Queens

For seven days each month, intrepid bloggers are invited by Lollipop to volunteer to be listed in the blogroll for ICLW. Each day we aim to leave 5 comments and return 1. Those brave souls that leave a comment on every blog on that month’s blogroll reach the grand status of ‘Iron Commentor’ and earn a blog icon to prove it.  Continue reading Infertility Completely Leaves you Whacked!

Miracle New Year babies

So Wobbles and I are not given much hope of achieving parenthood?

Well we decided to take matters into our own hands and go towards adoption.

World here for the first time are our new babies; Continue reading Miracle New Year babies