The months passed quickly; I didn’t pay much attention to my cycles but knew they were pretty much 35 days and thankful they’d reverted to normal (normal for me) so quickly. I later found my body had led me into a false sense of security and my cycles wouldn’t settle down for years yet.
New Year’s Eve 2005 we’d gone to a hotel with a group of friends and had a brilliant time, after seeing the New Year in we all sat in the hotel bar chatting and putting the world to rights, when the conversation turned to babies. We said we’d decided to try in the New Year (in hindsight we should have kept quiet!) as did another couple; before heading to our room my husband made a throwaway comment “the race is on”. That comment has haunted me ever since, that couple have 3 children now, in fact all the couples we were with that night have children.
We made love in the early hours of New Year’s Day, I remember turning to my husband and saying “we could have just made a baby”. If only things were that simple…
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