Having a personal section on 'makingmymovie' might seem pretty odd a first but for me my personal life and filmmaking are really the same thing. Making movies is not something I can compartmentalize off to a separate area and the same goes for my personal life, I live, sleep and breathe them both.
When I first started 'White Light'... I was alone and single... I said to myself that if I finished 'White Light', if I died the next day I wouldn't mind because the film meant so much to me... The trouble is, I've met Myra and we are having a baby...
16 week scan of our daughter
(please click on the photo to view the movie)
To start with we never really thought it was going to be so 'easy'... We are both 40 years old and for a woman it can be more difficult. Myra and I had a conversation in which we resigned ourselves to the fact that we might never have kids... Then within two months, even after Myra's German doctor said it would take a long time, Myra got pregnant...
It was fantastic news... But then worry began to set in as soon as we started reading... If you are 20 to 25 just about everything seems perfect, but at 35 + the statistics seems to be heavily weighted against you. At 40 the chance of having a child with a chrmosone disorder are apparently 1 in 64... It's a very serious emotional decision whether one should have an invasive test like CVS because the risk that the procedure can cause a miscarriage. It's a decision we both sweated over for 2 to 3 weeks... In the end we found the Fetal Medicine Foundation, a registered charity run by a specialist, Dr. Kypros H. Nicolaides, which because they specialise in CVS, had a risk rate of 1 in 300.
In the end, thank God, and I mean that, the report came back negative... It goes with out saying, how immensely relieved we both were... Since then the pregnancy has gone well and we are exspecting a girl who should be born on 26th January 2003.
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