Time line

July 2011
Six week scan shows fetus with beating heart – 7mm long

June 2011
# 3 embryo transfer (five embryos left on ice)

Blood test shows I am pregnant

May 2011
# 2 embryo transfer (six embryos left on ice)

Blood tests show I am not pregnant

Mar 2011
Blood tests show I am pregnant

Bleeding, and I miscarry at six weeks

Feb 2011
My husband, sister, brother in law and I carry out our ‘science experiment’.  That is, my darling sister underwent IVF treatment to give me some eggs

Donor IVF cycle went incredibly well. My sister had no side effects from the treatment and yielded 14 eggs – eight of which fertilised

One embryo transferred to me

2010
Began blog

2009
Go see an endocrinologist. Tests reveal Follicle Stimulating Hormone (FSH) is sky high – shows my eggs are dead and buried and that future IVF cycles would be money down the drain

Scan for osteoporosis shows my back is already weakened by my depleted hormones, plus suffering from insomnia and anxiety

Prescribed hormone replacement therapy and vitamin D to fix my back and sleeping problems

2008
Moved to Australia with my husband

Tried IVF but absolutely no eggs

2007
Began trying for babies soon after I married at 36 in the UK. Went off the pill and began having hot flushes and my periods disappeared

Blood tests showed I was in early menopause