Hello ladies,

Loula, hang in there, I'm relieved that you finally get your D&C. will be thinking of you on Friday, again I'm so sorry you have to go through this.

Hollybolly - i understand your aprehensiveness. Hoping you can remain optimistic, I will be optimistic for you! Best of luck with this cycle.

cuddlepie - i hope you are going along ok. Glad life is busy, just hope it's busy with the good things! Best of luck with this upcoming cycle and fingers crossed that the immunity supressive therapy does the job for you. Keep us posted.

Hi anyos, hope you are travelling along ok.

Dutchie - when do you start again? thanks for your neverending support xx

Hugs to everyone else.

AFM - appointment went well yesterday. FS is very positive that we can all make a baby together - which is nice. The plan is something new. My FS calls it a "mini-stim" cycle which is apparently having a lot of success in Europe. The theory is when you get a lot of eggs that quality is compromised. My first cycle was 18 eggs, 10 mature enough for ICSI, 9 fertilised and 7 transferred all up - result - a miscarriage from the fresh transfer and zip for all the other 6. So we are going for a lot less eggs that are hopefully better quality. I will have no pill and no syneral (hooray), we start scanning from about CD8 - my folicles will start to develop themselves and when they get to a 'medium' size i will start FSH injections - to give a little boost - for a few days, more scans, then one injection to stop ovulation (does same as syneral but in one injection). then a trigger, EPU and transfer (if we get that far) as per usual. All up it's just under two weeks long. We are aiming for less than 10 mature eggs. I feel really good about this, the cycle itself will be much 'easier' on me with less drugs and a shorter time frame. We'll also later decide when the time comes whether to do 2/3 day transfer or grow to blast.

Anyone heard of this protocol or have done this? Does it sound like something that already happens everywhere, i've maybe just never heard of it?

I am due for AF in under two weeks and we will start then. Apprehensive as you just never know how something new will work for you but excited to be doing something different. i had prepared myself for quite a wait and another long stim cycle so am happy that we can get into things a bit faster.

Love to all xx