PippaJ
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Hi everyone 
I thought I'd do one of these journals so I could tell you all about me and my lovely family
Well, I'm Pippa and I've been with my OH for nearly 5 years now and we got engaged 3.5 years ago. We decided to start trying for a baby when we got engaged and after 1.5 years of not alot happening we went off for some tests and we were told my OH has a very low sperm count, and the % of normal healthy sperm was about 2%. He has type 1 diabetes and has done since he was 11 years old so we were told this has probably caused it.
We were referred for IVF and were about to start a process called ICSI. I was in the middle of all the scans I had to have etc and because of our results we had stopped trying to conceive and were just going with the flow. We then found out that we had actually managed to conceive naturally I only did the test because I had felt a little dizzy and was 1 day late. I will never forget seeing that feint blue line and running downstairs to tell him!! We went straight out and got 2 FR tests and both tests gave a strong positive so somehow we had done it ourselves, and 9 months later our beautiful little Evie Boo came along
So that's the 3 of us!! We will be TTC at some point in the next 12 months once we have moved house. If our next journey is anything like the last one it will be filled with lots of laughs, tears and emotion, and hopefully it will have a happy ending again, but if not then we have our Evie. And I know whatever our next time trying brings I have a load of lovely people now to ramble on to
Thanks for reading, love Pip, Ian & Evie xxx
I thought I'd do one of these journals so I could tell you all about me and my lovely family
Well, I'm Pippa and I've been with my OH for nearly 5 years now and we got engaged 3.5 years ago. We decided to start trying for a baby when we got engaged and after 1.5 years of not alot happening we went off for some tests and we were told my OH has a very low sperm count, and the % of normal healthy sperm was about 2%. He has type 1 diabetes and has done since he was 11 years old so we were told this has probably caused it.
We were referred for IVF and were about to start a process called ICSI. I was in the middle of all the scans I had to have etc and because of our results we had stopped trying to conceive and were just going with the flow. We then found out that we had actually managed to conceive naturally
I only did the test because I had felt a little dizzy and was 1 day late. I will never forget seeing that feint blue line and running downstairs to tell him!! We went straight out and got 2 FR tests and both tests gave a strong positive so somehow we had done it ourselves, and 9 months later our beautiful little Evie Boo came along So that's the 3 of us!! We will be TTC at some point in the next 12 months once we have moved house. If our next journey is anything like the last one it will be filled with lots of laughs, tears and emotion, and hopefully it will have a happy ending again, but if not then we have our Evie. And I know whatever our next time trying brings I have a load of lovely people now to ramble on to
Thanks for reading, love Pip, Ian & Evie xxx
and she has found her voice too so lots of new words are coming (it is bad that she can say Makka Pakka better than Mum lol 
) 
we are very proud of her indeed 
