Introducing Milly

We would like to introduce a new member of our family - Milly!

No, we haven't had one of those "I didn't know I was pregnant" experiences, she's our adorable new puppy!



We're currently on holiday in Canada, but this is a photo of her before we left, helping Nicky with her packing.

She's 18 months old and is a labrador/staffie/whippet cross. She has great traits from all those breeds - very strong like a labrador, very people-oriented like a staffie so she loves her cuddles, and very fast like a whippet!



She loves the mirrored wardrobes in our bedroom and can't quite work out where all the extra dogs come from!

She's visited us a couple of times and stayed overnight before we left to go on holiday, and she's moving in permanently the day we come back. We can't wait, we love her already!






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Location:Vancouver,Canada

Change of plan

Thankfully we're not still waiting for my cycle to start as it still hasn't appeared (I have PCOS so this isn't that unusual), in fact we're not actually waiting at all at the moment. We decided in mid October that we were going to stop the process with the ACU and hold off for a while. It just wasn't feeling right for us as a couple to do the IVF route the way we'd planned it.

Nicky has always wanted to experience pregnancy, and whilst she isn't against adoption she knew that she wanted to give birth to our first child if possible. I've always known that I wanted to adopt, and would have been very happy not to have any birth children (although I am excited to see Nicky go through pregnancy and birth). We were talking about this and doing some research online at the same time, and somehow we came across the concept of embryo adoption. The more we looked into it, the more each of us felt that it might be the right way to go for us. We've made some initial enquiries, and although it's not covered by the NHS (it's actually not available in the UK at all as yet as far as we can tell) it seems affordable for us to go to a clinic in Spain, which is a bonus!

We know that we definitely want to get married before starting a family (apparently it's my job to buy the engagement ring and plan the big romantic proposal, so I'd better start saving!) and now that we're no longer under the restrictions of NHS waiting lists and treatment times, it definitely feels a lot easier. This time next year we could be married and expecting!