So here is the news - though I guess most of you know this by now - Sara is pregnant and going to have a baby!!!! We are both delighted as we were led to believe it was not medically possible. For many years we had hauled ourselves through the NHS infertility system (not much fun - lovely nurses, less lovely consultants) without success. After years of poking, prodding, samples, scans, diary-keeping, mucus feeling, pipe-cleaning, keyhole camera examinations and even reflexology and acupuncture (not on the NHS of course), we were signed off with "unexplained infertility". Next please... We were both very sad, though I was kind of pleased I'd never have to give another sperm sample. Apart from trying to collect the sample in a bottle clearly designed by a woman (and a woman with
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