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    What to expect when you’re not expecting XXV: The end

    by Lord Sutch January 10, 2018
    January 10, 2018

    I can remember the exact moment when Kim and I decided we were ready to have kids. We’d talked about it…

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    What to expect when you’re not expecting XXIV: Happiness is a high HCG

    by Lord Sutch December 20, 2017
    December 20, 2017

    Last post was pretty grim huh? Apparently one of my sisters read it and rang my mum because she was concerned…

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    What to expect when you’re not expecting XXII: Expecting?

    by Lord Sutch December 12, 2017
    December 12, 2017

    Jesus, this is post number 22. That’s a lot of my dribble. Well mainly my dribble, some of it has been…

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    What to expect when you’re not expecting XXI: One egg, two baskets

    by Lord Sutch December 4, 2017
    December 4, 2017

    Boy it’s getting tense isn’t it? Saturday was transfer day, when the fertilised embryo we had was getting put back in…

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    What to expect when you’re not expecting XX: The stress and the excitement of it all

    by Lord Sutch December 1, 2017
    December 1, 2017

    On Monday we went in for egg harvesting. Last time we did that we managed to get 5 eggs out which…

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    What to expect when you’re not expecting XIX: The mendacity of hope

    by Lord Sutch November 26, 2017
    November 26, 2017

    As I write this it’s 5.30pm on a Sunday afternoon. It’s the day before we do egg collection. It’s been 26…

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    What to expect when you’re not expecting XVIII: The Sharps Container

    by Lord Sutch November 20, 2017
    November 20, 2017

    When you’ve made a commitment to writing out your story, and then that story ends up being way longer than you…

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    What to expect when you’re not expecting XVII: it’s Fertility Week and I still don’t have a baby

    by Kim November 6, 2017
    November 6, 2017

    A memory came up on my Facebook feed this morning. “Kim, we care about you and the memories that you make…

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    What to expect when you’re not expecting XVI: Where have ya been Dave?

    by Lord Sutch October 13, 2017
    October 13, 2017

    Two and a half months ago I had a shitty birthday when our most recent IVF round got called off. I…

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    What to expect when you’re not expecting XV: The Holiday

    by Lord Sutch July 28, 2017
    July 28, 2017

    It seems I take about two days to mentally process things. After the shitter of all birthdays where we had been…

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    What to expect when you’re not expecting XIV: Not such a happy birthday

    by Lord Sutch July 23, 2017
    July 23, 2017

    Well that’s a bit shit. We had our first scan of this IVF round this morning. And now it’s our only…

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    What to expect when you’re not expecting XIII: It’s my birthday tomorrow

    by Lord Sutch July 22, 2017
    July 22, 2017

    Tomorrow is my 33rd birthday. It’s a bit of a nothing birthday. I like to measure birthdays in factors. The more…

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    What to expect when you’re not expecting XII: Dicks are dicks

    by Lord Sutch July 7, 2017
    July 7, 2017

    We’re back on. Today was day 0, Kim has begun taking a new pill that does some wizardry to try and…

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    What to expect when you’re not expecting XI: Next please

    by Kim July 4, 2017
    July 4, 2017

    When you think about IVF, you don’t tend to think about it in stages. IVF is the term we use when…

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    What to expect when you’re not expecting VIII: Having a break from Ms Ivy Eff’s wild ride

    by Lord Sutch June 8, 2017
    June 8, 2017

    So I had it reported back to me that the last post was really sad. And I was sad. Just to…

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    What to expect when you’re not expecting VII: The baby room

    by Lord Sutch June 5, 2017
    June 5, 2017

    If we go back a few years, when Kim and I thought that we’d be popping out children like we saw…

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    What to expect when you’re not expecting VI: Some good news for a change

    by Lord Sutch May 31, 2017
    May 31, 2017

    Christ this is some rollercoaster. It’s way more exciting than the rollercoaster they had at that Footrot Flats themed park that used…

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    What to expect when you’re not expecting V: Round II. Fight

    by Lord Sutch May 25, 2017
    May 25, 2017

    Kim and I have discussed a lot whether this is our second round of IVF or our first since we had…

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