Louise Thompson

And then...

Because I have this bowel condition, I'm on quite a lot of different medication.

And some of that medication, there's just not been enough research around whether it's safe to carry kids.

But that wouldn't really be the main thing for me.

But also, they don't know whether it's something called teratogenic, which means that it can pass on to the child.

And they don't know at what cellular level that could be.

So I've had to work to...

this like program where I can switch medications basically it feels complicated and like really deep to me but when I say it out loud people are probably like so you switch medication but I'm like but for me switching medication it's huge means like but that medication was working and like if I switch off it

then I might have to have like my bum removed in an emergency surgery.

So everything has had to be so considered and like slow and delicate.

And we got there.

And then, yeah, I did a cycle and I was very scared because I wouldn't, it feels odd to choose, you know, to pay anything.

To have the procedure done and everything else has been, you know, on the NHS and not by choice.

And so, you know, even Ryan has thought like, but why would I don't want to see you in a hospital gown for any reason, like even if you are in control.

Yeah.

And I did it.

And it was at a time when I was, yeah, I think I mentioned I was really busy, kind of at the end of last year.

And so it kind of breezed through it, actually.

And I'll be honest, I thought that it was fine.

And I thought that it was easy compared to some of the other things that I'd been through.