After looking it up online, the internet tells me that if we were to go ahead and get sperm delivered to our doorstep, we have about a 15% chance of success per try with at home insemination. That doesn’t seem like that much. Jo and I only have a limited amount of money we […]
Sperm banks can mail their wares in the post to almost anywhere in the world. After our stressful hospital audition we’re ready to think outside the box here, so an option we had dismissed before is suddenly looking appealing again. Why not just do it at home? Related postsBye-bye second trimesterFreya’s first birthdayThe tale […]
It’s June 15th 2018, and we have an appointment with the UZ Gent reproductive team. We make it on time and sign in. It’s a warm day, and Jo eats her lunch while sitting on a wall just outside the hospital while I twitchily play with my phone. I hate hospitals. Every fibre in […]
It’s May by now. I’m staying in Jo’s flat in Liverpool to help her pack up before she moves to Ghent. Along with her moving, everything else seems to be up in the air right now as well. After finding out about the legal implications of co-parenting with the father, we decided to give […]
We send an email, and he answers. Over the next few hesitant back-and-forths, it becomes clear that I managed to find someone in that disaster of a baby-making speed date that is actually kind, realistic, and funny. I agree to meet him again in person in December. We sit across from each other and talk […]
