“I felt massively deflated. Gutted even” BY KATY ROBSON-MALONE So the journey began. We had set ourselves on IUI, with it being the least intrusive compared to IVF, and we were hopeful for good results. With our biggest tiny human it took three goes and with the mid-kid it was only one. The cycle started [….]
“We set up The LGBT Mummies Tribe to educate, share and celebrate women and their families” BY THE LGBT MUMMIES TRIBE, ILLUSTRATION BY SKETCHMYTRIBE I’m Laura-Rose, a 33-year-old, married lesbian mother of two. My wife and I have been together for 12 years, married for eight. We had IUI treatment through the The Centre For Reproductive [….]
“The first thing I asked was, ‘Can I have any further children?’” BY KATY ROBSON-MALONE “All parents know deep down how many people should be sitting around your dinner table”. This is what somebody said to us when I was pregnant with our tiniest human and I’ve not been able to shake it off. You’d [….]
“If I had to come out to my family all over again? I wouldn’t change a thing” BY YAIZA CANOPOLI Coming out via text was not my first choice – to be honest, coming out in general was never really the plan. My mom has always been a big supporter of Pride and LGBTQI movements [….]
“Funny how situations like this can knock the stuffing out of you” BY KATY ROBSON-MALONE Is it more stressful applying for a job that you’re already doing or one that is completely new? And when I say stressful, Im kind of just talking about saving face. If you’re already doing a job, you’d feel like [….]
“Talk about throwing us in the deep end…” BY KATY ROBSON-MALONE Well, what a little adventure we have just had reliving our childhood memories of Rosie and Jim. A few people have commented on how crazy we are, but we’ve just taken the girls on a narrowboat holiday! Don’t worry, the thought of it sent [….]
Cryos sperm bank offer their top tips to help your kids understand their own story BY CRYOS INTERNATIONAL It can be difficult to answer the questions that most children have about how they came into the world, perhaps more so when your child was conceived through a donor. Their story is different and so here, [….]
