Getting Pregnant

It’s not just regular blood tests that the fertility clinic wants to torture you with when they’re trying to figure out what’s going wrong with you – there are also ultrasounds.

I was definitely nervous the first time round I trudged across the road to the ultrasound clinic, although I can’t complain about the people there. Both the reception staff and the doctor himself were the friendliest of all people I’ve come across so far in this process, and helped to put me at ease.

And you need to be at ease to let a stranger stick a strange probe up inside to look at your very private parts. It turns out that these internal ultrasounds give them a better picture, plus it’s actually more comfortable in a way as a patient because they’re done with an empty bladder rather than a full one. Every second day for a week or so they check your ovaries and what they’re producing, so they can predict ovulation and see how many eggs you’re growing – important if you end up on the IVF track.

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