It all started with my baby obsession and a constant 'one day' attitude. I would think about the day my partner said she was ready to start a family. I would drop not so little hints like 'what would we call our baby'. See I told you they were not so little hints! I had been researching for a long time, searching endlessly for blogs or anything that would give me the information regarding same sex couples and trying to conceive. I even resorted to scrolling through random Instagram posts with the hashtag 'lesbianmums'. I would get lost in a baby filled worlds and get overly excited about something I had no idea when or even how it could happen.
So..the day finally comes when I mention babies to my partner and she doesn't look like she wants to punch me in the face! Success!! I obviously started crazily researching and reading anything I could find on the subject. Statistics and government information were informative but not quite what I was looking for. I seemed to only come across either American sperm banks (why are English guys so afraid of sharing their little guys?) maybe it's the new law that makes them become automatic dads when the sperm knocks at the door when they turn 18! I also watched a bunch of YouTube videos of lesbians trying to get pregnant, again predominately in the U.S so not that helpful. It wasn't easy to find information relating to the UK, this is the main reason I wanted to start this blog. If I can help a couple even slightly then it'll be worth it.
Back to the researching, hours spent reading pointless documents and awful daily mail articles like 'lesbians getting babies on the NHS' helped me realise I wasn't going to get anywhere without a referral from my GP, unless we wanted to spend £950 on sperm and find a turkey baster we liked the look of. So that was it, it all started with that phone call. Our appointment was booked, no going back now (well unless I cancelled the appointment of course). Here it all begins...two women, one desperate and one not so desperate but coming around to the idea of having a baby.
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