Oooh, congratulations on the beautiful Bay-bee, dontry. First BESH offspring! It feels like a lot longer than a year since this place opened.
Aries I have no words of advice, only this ample bosom of sympathy; Dboyfriend and I are in the same self-employed Boat of Uncertainty, and have been for a long time. (Or we were, till he got a different job, and now we're in a different Boat of Logistic Nightmare). I've woken in the middle of the night in tears, and had those round-and-round arguments about whether it's simply impossible right now, or whether I'll look back in 20 years and realise I'd got everything wrong and it's Too Late. You will cope, if you get diffed. People do. What's meant for you, won't go by you, que sera sera, etc, etc.
I also think the media has a lot to answer for with the stream of 'my life was empty till I had a baby' bollocks from soap stars, etc. The reality is that some women are broody from an early age, and have motherhood fixed in their life plan; some women genuinely don't mind either way, but they all still bring up healthy, well-adjusted children.
headbanger peesticks are the work of the devil - spare yourself, good woman. If we still had to do it the old way and inject a rabbit with wee, or whatever they used to do, none of us would be testing until we couldn't actually see our own feet any more.
crossed fingers and paper cuts for everyone else.