I thought seeing that it is now April and the March chatty thread is already over 100 posts, that I'd start a new chatty thread. I hope that's okay? I'm thinking Dawn that you are going to be rather busy with Olivia, and may not think to start a new one just yet?

Carrying on from where the last one left off....

I forgot to give you an update on our equivalent to the Sibling Register - we have just started email contact with two families - one lesbian couple with two boys aged 3 and 5, and one single woman with a daughter aged 4 (she hasn't replied to our email yet). We've also been provided a list of all the children born using the same donor - with their sex and birth month and year, although these others are not on the Register so we have no way of contacting them....yet... There are 4 sets of maternal siblings. The most exciting part is that we have had email contact with the first family, and seen pics of those two little boys and they don't look anything like Mason. You've no idea how relieved I am. I guess I've been worrying ever since I really started thinking about the possible up-to-19 other half-siblings mason may have, that they are all Mason-clones. I can't really explain what I mean, what I was feeling, but by seeing that these two, although very cute kids, look nothing like my son, it made me feel like Mason is more my DP's and mine rather than????? Oh I don't know...it really sounds silly trying to put it into words. Maybe Mason does look like me - I can never see it, but everybody tells me so! Anyway, sometime soon we will be meeting up with this first family, and possibly the mom and 4yo girl for a playdate at the park or zoo - these two families have already met a few times and they tell me the children have a real connection! All of this is something we never thought we'd be doing when chosing our donor back in 2003. We thought it would be Mason trying to make contact once he was an adult....

Okay enough from me, this is meant to be a "chatty" thread, not a thread all about me

So how are the new pregnancies going? and how are all those gorgeous babies and their exhausted moms doing?

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