Jess – just one of Leo’s mums Follow The Legacy of Leo on FOLLOW BY EMAILĮnter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email."My 2019 resolution is to say things on air that I say off air…" – the famous last words of Pete Hegseth last year, just before he revealed a secret that set the internet alight.Īt the time, Hegseth was best known as a Fox News presenter who had a sprinkling of controversial views. If you like something you read, or think it may help someone you know, please feel free to share. Please feel free to drop me a comment, or connect on social media whatever your experiences. If you find yourself here following similar experiences, know that you are not alone and go gentle on yourself. To discover more about #AdventToRemember, #BabyLossHour or #LGBTBabyLoss and other initiatives, have a look under the ‘About’ section. Together we fundraise and campaign for better awareness and support for organisations that have helped us to heal.Įxplore more about our story by following the categories below, or click on ‘Blog’ in the menu above to find key posts from a range of topics. We are passionate about sharing the honest truth of baby loss, stillbirth, miscarriage and pregnancy after loss. Welcome, and thank you for taking the time to visit our blog – this is the story of Leo Phoenix, and what followed his birth. At least you can smile and dream on the journey. For Leo will always be apart of it – if we ever get it.Īnd for optimism vs pessimism? I’ve done both, in equal measure. Pennies for our pile, to help us create a family. A career doesn’t seem too crucial anymore. Two degrees later, and all I want now is to change our world. The future for treatment would now probably take us to FET, for there are two tiny blastocysts – Leo’s siblings – sat, waiting. I don’t know how we get classified now, after all we successfully had a baby and carried til term. We still haven’t got to the magical sixth cycle that would classify us in the same comparison as a straight couple attempting to get pregnant for sixth months. I never considered myself “infertile” – and in theory there is nothing to suggest we are. We figured if we saved enough, even if we got to the second cycle, we’d have money saved for a pram. And even then, my BMI was on the slightly high side – the only indication of my health that they even had. I wanted to make sure we were covered, just incase, – after all how did they know how healthy I was? I’d never even tested my fertility. I remember insisting that we had to save enough for the initial three cycles – despite them telling us, you’re young and healthy, you probably won’t need three. And to be fair, I have always been pretty cynical, even then. Unrealistic optimism, hindsight would tell us. What I see in these eyes is the cheeky knowledge that we’d just done something no one else knew about. This is us, on the tube, following our first round of IUI at a clinic in London. I also remember not wanting to pursue another clinic who didn’t do any ‘natural’ IUI cycles – I wasn’t infertile, just lacking in sperm after all. I remember people from the clinic we ending up going to telling me “oh, you’ll be fine, you’re young and healthy”. It was our first outing as wannabe parents. A few months before, in September, we went to the Alternative Parenting Show in London. My first appointment to embark on motherhood was December 28th, 2012, age 25. Motherhood, and the 30-35 fertility drop off seemed a life away. The irony was not lost on us, but we were still only 20 (granted, past the peak age of fertility already…) and full of ambitions to radicalise the various divisions of psychology that excited us. Unrealistic Optimism in Infertility.Įssentially, the concept that “it’ll never happen to me” contributing to women, who now had potential careers and ambitions, delaying motherhood whilst risking infertility. We had chosen a topic our favourite lecturer had put forward. Aged 20, part way through Uni studying for a Bachelors in Psychology I started my Dissertation.
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