I am new member who found this site after having another bad week on the fertility front!
I am 33 and was told I was going through the menopause 18 months ago after my periods had stopped for 6 months! I was in hell, hot flushes weight gain, migraines, skin, hair and nails were a mess, and I was a mess! I am a beauty Therapist and had to give up work because the hot flushes and migraines were making it impossible to give treatments!
I have struggled with every aspect of my diagnosis, not feeling like a woman, feeling different from all my friends and even their daughters, I have a 16 year old step daughter who through no fault of her own makes me feel worthless!
As for the baby thing, I know my only chance of having a baby is through Egg donation but it still kills me to think that child will never look like me or my family, I hope this is sounding normal to people just like me and I am not just sounding completely mad
Would love to here from anyone else in the same situation to me, this site has been a great help and comfort to me already and I have been in touch with some great people and hope to speak to more!
Love Sam x
) Looks-wise, me & DH are quite different, I am round where he is long & thin, I have a small nose, he has a big nose etc, so a child could come out with any of these features and not look the slightest bit like me or my family. Maybe I have just managed to convince myself or maybe I do really believe it but I think a child would become like me & DH even if it did not have my genes because of the way we would bring it up. (Becky (ogr1) says her foster children have picked up the same mannerisms as her DH from living with them) So what if it has straight hair and I have wavy hair? I have no idea what a mix of my and DH genes would look like anyway. And the clinic take your picture to get a good match for looks etc.