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Sharing our IVF journey, motherhood & family life 🥰
First time Mama's to Freddie with another baby boy on the way 🍼💫
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@hollymorley_ 🖤

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Plot twist 🤍

Our journey was real..
But the timeline wasn’t.

While you were watching round three unfold, we were quietly walking through round four, five, six and seven..

Until round eight gave us our positive 🥹

And now we can finally share..
Another mini Morley is on the way ❤️ by @making_mini_morley

He's here 🤍💫🧸🥰

#freddiemorley by @making_mini_morley

Baby Morley is a... 🤍✨🍼⛅️ by @making_mini_morley

When Freddie met Louie 🩵

We really didn’t know how Freddie would adapt to sharing us, our home & his life with a baby brother but he’s surprised us so much! He’s been so gentle & loving & we couldn’t be any prouder of our big boy 🥹 💫 by @making_mini_morley

He's here 🤍 by @making_mini_morley

40 weeks today 🥹🥰 by @making_mini_morley

Just for a bit of fun before baby boy makes his arrival… 🥹💙

Have a guess at his name & birth weight 👶🏼

We’ll come back and see if anyone got it right once he’s here! 🤍🥰 by @making_mini_morley

Little update from us 🤍

We really thought this week might be baby week & it still may be if he decides to make his own entrance, which we’re really hoping he does 🥹💙

We mentioned on our stories last week that if baby boy did need to be brought out rather than coming spontaneously, a planned C-section rather than induction is the option we feel most comfortable with.

We rang the antenatal ward this morning with not having heard anything & were told that, although all of the consultants we’ve seen have advised delivery at 40 weeks due to this being an IVF pregnancy, there currently isn’t any space for a planned section this week.

We know some trusts don’t manage IVF pregnancies any differently, which does give us some peace of mind & means we’re not panicking about the delay. But equally, after being advised throughout that delivery around 40 weeks would be recommended, we do feel a little uneasy about going much beyond that when there are some small increased risks associated with doing so.

We’re now on a list in case any extra capacity becomes available, so if he doesn’t decide to come on his own this week, then it definitely won’t be Wednesday like we’d thought.

Hol has had two sweeps so far & has another this afternoon, so we’ll keep you updated with any changes 🥰 by @making_mini_morley

The cost of our fertility journey 💉🔬🧬

Just a reminder this is just our experience. Fertility treatment looks completely different for everyone, so what we needed & what we paid won’t necessarily be the same for somebody else.

We also know we’re very fortunate to have been in a position to cover the crazy costs that came with private treatment but it's still taken its toll in every way possible.

Our journey lasted around 18 months & took 8 attempts before we finally got our positive 💙

Here’s the easiest way we could break it down 👇🏻

🤍 Initial appointments & testing - £828
This included consultations, scans, AMH testing and infection screening.

💚 Monthly fertility supplements for the 18 months - £1440

💙 2 x IUI attempts - £2,759.02
Including medication.

🧬 Donor sperm - £6,239.40
This included 5 donor sperm vials, import fees and storage fee's

💚 First IVF round + fresh embryo transfer - £8,048.33

This included our first egg collection, IVF treatment, fresh transfer, embryo monitoring, extended culture, embryo freezing & storage, embryo glue, HFEA fees & medication.

🧡 All the following Frozen embryo transfers - £13,086.91
This includes all medication and additional Lubion injections.

🩸 Further fertility testing -£578
After several failed treatments, we also paid privately for blood clotting, antibody and immune testing.

By December, we had spent £32,539.66 & then at this point we discovered a multi-cycle IVF package. (Wish we realised this sooner 🥲)

Multi cycle ivf package - £7,225
This covered up to 2 further IVF cycles & 2 egg collections.

& ironically but very thankfully we conceived on the first try of that new package 🥹💙

That cycle became our second egg collection + second fresh embryo transfer & finally gave us our big fat positive on the pregnancy test.

So our total fertility spend came to an eye watering £41,204.66 🙃

We're sharing this because fertility treatment isn’t only an emotional & physical investment but for many families, it can be a huge financial one too.

But after everything it's took to get here, we're now only a matter of days away from meeting him 🥹

Worth every penny a million times over ❤️ by @making_mini_morley

He'll forever be the one who made us Mamas ❤️ by @making_mini_morley

September dump 🍂 🤎 by @making_mini_morley

October Mamas, it’s our turn 🥰

37 + 1 today 🩵

We honestly still cannot quite believe it. It’s such a surreal feeling knowing we’re down to the final few weeks & that this is the month we’re going to meet our second little boy 🥹

Bump is feeling looow and his head is welllll down there. Let's just say everything is feeling a little swollen at this point 😆 Hospital bags are pretty much packed, his car seat will be going in this week & now it’s just a case of waiting for baby boy to decide when he’s ready to meet us.

At the same time as being SO excited, we’re so conscious that these are our last few weeks with Freddie as our only little boy before he becomes a big brother so we’re really trying to soak up every cuddle & every little moment as our family of 3 🥰

Life with Freddie already feels so full & complete & we genuinely couldn’t love this little life of ours any more than we already do but somehow we also know we’re about to discover a whole new kind of love we can’t even imagine yet 🥹🩵

It's such a strange mix of wanting time to speed up because we’re so desperate to meet him while also wanting it to slow right down. ❤️ by @making_mini_morley