I’m (just) 39 and basically waiting to have miscarriage number 2 (I’m 8+ weeks and it’s measuring more like 6, so, yeah, that’s pretty much inevitable). I was all ‘Ha! Got in before 40', so that’ll teach me.

My understanding has always been that anything at all - like your example - is a pass. Which is what makes it so ludicrous that so many films still fail it, when the bar is basically as low as it can possibly be.

Naturally I am watching this now because I am a terrible person, and I have to say they’d have had great difficulty not alluding to the situation at all. Mainly because another housemate misunderstood and thought that Angie told her that (housemate) David Gest had just died, became hysterical, and everything…

As someone from the UK, I’ve always found the number of ‘annual check-up’ hoops you guys have to junp through to get a prescription for the Pill kind of bizarre. I was on it for years, and I never had a pelvic exam (I really don’t get what this would be for), and had smear tests every few years according to the…

Yep. That actually looks pretty tame for New Year in Manchester...

Whereas telling people to kill themselves is A okay?

That’s how you spell it in British English. (Or, as Swype would have it, hire you stork it...)

Eh, my mind jumped to donor eggs.

They’ll always be PJ and Duncan to me.

Three times, right here. And I will totally go again.

I don’t know what US IVF contracts are like, but in the UK it’s definitely made clear that if one party to creating an embryo withdraws their consent (at any time prior to embryo transfer) then those embryos can’t be used. That’s even true if you’ve used donor gametes to create the embryos - if the donor changes their…

I blimmin’ well hope so, or I’m going to suck at this parenting lark. (And thank you!)

I can see it both ways. If a woman/couple feel they’d want the people around them to know if they miscarried in order to support them, then fair enough to announce early - and there’s an argument that doing so helps combat the silence around miscarriage and enables people to talk about it. But, yeah, I think a lot of…

Having rolled in infertility circles and had a miscarriage, ‘I’m sorry’ and ‘I don’t know what to say’ are perfectly fine and reasonable things to say. (The stuff to be avoided is ‘just relax and it’ll happen’, any anecdote about your cousin’s hairdresser who had five rounds of IVF and then magically got pregnant…

I think FRERs are worth the extra money early on, because they’re really sensitive and the lines on them are extremely clear and easy to read. I’m less convinced that the digital ones are a good idea, especially the ‘number of weeks’ ones which can be inaccurate. (Also, the advert really pisses me off. No, lady, you…

I’m like 5 weeks pregnant right now (after shedloads of fertility treatment) and I’m freaking out that it was a terrible idea...

With my (6 week-ish) miscarriage I only went to the doctor to say ‘so, uh, I’m pretty clearly about to have a miscarriage; is there anything in particular I should be aware of?’ If I knew I would then be expected to jump through weird, distasteful hoops (involving, what, collecting everything that came out of my…

As someone who has had a miscarriage, allow me to illuminate you: there were sanitary towels involved. I appreciate that this may be shocking news, but there you go.

The whole thing makes me highly suspicious that his doctor has been faking his own death and then coming back as his ‘son’, possibly for centuries...

In the (vanishingly unlikely) event I ever get engaged*, I’d so much prefer a moldovite ring, or one with an insect in amber, or something. I don’t get diamonds; they just look like bits of glass**.