PCOS conference day and Barbecue at Mostyn & Jules'

Today I went in to London, bright and early for Verity's (the PCOS self help group in the UK) conference. I'd been looking forward to this fr a long time, but with some trepidation. I really didn't want to be disappointed, and thank goodness, it was a great day. It was wonderful to be in a world where everyone understood the harshness of living with PCOS, and also understood and saw perfectly the many good things we have brought out of it all. There were plenty of women there - all shapes and sizes, everyone looking really nice actually, we weren't exactly fitting easily into any of the stereotypes. I met some really nice ladies, and it also felt nice to have had the success I have had so far, and to share it with the people I really want to share it with - it's incredibly hard losing so much through the crazy hormones, and I've at least scrabbled together enough of what I needed to push the infertility aside and get pregnant (subfertility apparantly! I learned a new word ... one of the RE s was using the word). 

I could see different ladies in one or other of the dark places I was in not long ago ... others with problems far more challenging than mine, some who have completely different ways of dealing with it all - it looked like they had done a smashing job too. 

The talks were all interesting. I'll fill in more about them later ...

Then in the evening, afte

r the conference I went to Mostyn & Jules' place, where Iain had  already turned up. They had eaten round 

one of the barbecue feast! Mostyn started cook

ing round two once I arrived on the scene, and man was I starving!!

Yummy food and good company, just what I wanted.

Iain and I were really excited as we had decided to ask Jules & Mostyn a very important question .... 

Godparents! 

Well technically the godparents won't have God/religion related duties ... obviously, as our situation is so, shall we say, unique ... but the first Godparent who signed up (said yes) was Chris, a while back ... I haven't taken a picture though! We have been planning to ask Mostyn and Jules for ages, and Jules assures me we have m

ade one of their dreams come true by asking! (I love how she loves our baby so much, it is most heartening). 

So here are Baby's new Godparents.