This is my grandmother, Rita. She appears in my memoir in several places, so although the following isn’t an excerpt,…
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Five Years
It was five years ago today that I took a pregnancy test for the first time and saw a second…
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How to Tell Your Two-Year-Old She Was Conceived via Egg Donation
To make a baby you need three things: oocyte eggs, sperms, and a uterus. Mummy and Daddy wanted you very much, but the doctor said that Mummy doesn’t have any oocyte eggs but she does have a uterus
How to Talk (to Me) About Egg Donation
Earlier this year I wrote a post about how I wish more people would be open about egg donation –…
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Protected: Aftershocks
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One Year
Whoops. I’m late in writing this… V turned a year old almost five weeks ago. The older she gets, the…
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Mother Shrugger!
At this point, I’m fairly open about egg donation. If it comes up and I feel like sharing, I share….
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Hello, Mum!
The past couple of weeks I feel like I’ve been finding my groove with V. I’m finding the time to…
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Birth Story Part 2: Recovery
{ Read Birth Story Part 1: Delivery here. } After DH left the OR, he called my dad to let…
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Birth Story, Part 1: Delivery
I had a caesarean birth plan, a list of preferences. But that’s mostly all they were – preferences. Loss and…
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