Getting Pregnant

I’d already done my research and found out that if we didn’t have success in conceiving a child within the first 12 months of trying, we should head on to our GP and ask what was going on.

So after 10 or 11 months, my husband and I started talking about planning a visit to the doctor. He was pretty positive about it: we’ll go soon, and then they’ll be able to run some tests and help us out, everything will work out. A very practical attitude, but unfortunately I couldn’t yet share it.

With a million more people around me pregnant - well, it certainly seemed like a million, plus lots of babies starting to be born - I was starting to feel a little down. Why wasn’t it working out for us? We were healthy, normal adults, we ate well, didn’t smoke, didn’t drink much at all, had no special illnesses and we’d both pretty much never been in hospital, so what was the problem?

I was also a bit anxious about going to the doctor. I’d decided to change  my (almost life long) GP and was trying to decide which doctor I’d go to who was near to our new home. I’m the type who can be intimidated by doctors - I’m reluctant to tell them what’s wrong with me, in case it’s nothing - so this decision was pretty important. All in all, with the one year anniversary of our attempt to conceive coming up, I wasn’t feeling too great.

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