Louise Thompson

Maybe they had other clients who were, you know, reaching that sort of like conventional two year mark and thinking, oh, maybe we'd like to have another child.

But it's so it's not something I can't sit here and say, like, I've yearned for this forever.

for a really long time.

We've only just felt good enough to kind of think about it.

And yeah, I've done an IVF cycle.

I've actually done two.

I did one when I was really, really busy.

That's another thing.

Obviously, I'm sure loads of people have come on this podcast to say make a plan, God laughs, or whoever laughs, whoever you believe in.

There were times when I wanted to do it before and then something else really hideous would crop up in my life, like some other major trauma to have to deal with, some perforation or a surgery.

And so it was always put on pause.

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.