Anyone else in the TWW period??

definitely! there is no way i'll make 21DPO before testing! i'll be lucky to make 14!!

I know i don't belong here (not right now anyway) but i just wanted to say, wow - there are a lot of ladies doing IUI! I think that's great. It's good to see that there are FSs out there who don't rush straight to IVF, and start out with something a little less interferring (and expensive!)

GL to all you in the dreaded TWW. Hope you all get wonderful news!!

Hi ladies.

Ive woken up feeling crap again. both side of my nose are blocked and feel like AF is coming. I was so sure I was going to be pg this time.

Bg hope your doing ok and keep pos.

Well I think I'm out of the 2WW! I did my calcuations last night and reaslised that AF due today so I did a HPT and guess what.....??????
BFN. Of course it is! And now feel as though AF is on her way here ASAP.
Am not too upset this time, last month I was a mess.
GL to everyone else

Oh Blayz hun dont give up just yet. Wait and see ok. I wish you lots of luck hun. Im so sorry if AF comes. :hug:

Morning Everyone...
Blayz - dont give up just yet ... just wait and see... I hope AF doesnt come though!!

Its interesting that you would say that Kotare... I was actually a little disappointed when my FS told us we should try IUI first. I just thought - why cant we just jump straight on board with IVF?? In hindsight though, you are right - IUI is much less invasive and I am glad that he is letting us give it a go!

Fingers crossed for EVERYONE during this 2WW... :crossfingers:

Blayz - i really hope that AF doesn't show - and that your test is just not sinsitive enough - take care hun

Jo - i was surprised when i first started out at how few people were doing IUI - i felt like a bit of a freak that was getting the run around by my FS - but now that a few more girls are doing IUI i realise that it's definitely not a bad option - and so much less invasive! i so hope this works out this time!!

Missy - sorry you're feeling so crummy again today - my issues seem to have settled down a fair bit over night - still not feeling great, but i'm sure i'll get over it - spending a quiet day today and hoping that will be enough!

Awww thats so good BG take is easy:)

Hi all,

well I survived my cold after spending days and days in bed. lucky for me I had booked leave. With this being my first IVF cycle I didnt know how I would respond to the drugs and procedures so had taken 2 weeks off. As it happens I seem to be a 'quick starter' and from go (start of jabs) to whoa (collection)was 7 days. Plenty of time off for recuperating from collection and from cold, but of course now I am paranoid about what effect the cold might have had on the little'uns (I have amazed myself at how maternal I feel about two little bunches of cells....I am a jaded old scientist and thought I would be very scientific about all of this. Um no.

bei bei; thanks for you good wishes

missy; sorry you have got a cold too! You dont go through concept do you...perhaps its the 'cold hub'! No my blood test is on the 28th. I have a 21 day cycle though these days which puts AF due on the 25th. AM trying VERY hard not to buy hpt.

lynn; thanks for your wishes. My cold is 90% gone now....I am alive! :)

I know that I am not alone here, but just to reassure me that Im not crazy, does EVERYONE read SO MUCH into every little sign over the tww. My girlfriends have told me all the signs they had (before af was due) when they conceived, and I keep going ' do I have this, do I have that?" Aaargh. My bb are sore but thats the prog pessaries I guess as that started before the ET even happened. I dont really crave alcohol the way I normally do, but that might be bc I 'weaned' myself off it while I was growing eggs (weird huh...I wanted them to be big and juicy ones). I dont miss my 'proper coffee' (also weaned off), but certainly dont feel naseous at the thought of nescafe.I even had a glass of wine (well 1/2 really) last nigth bc I felt that this would have a 'negative jinxing' effect. Mad woman. Not too much guilt for that though as my bestie had a blinder after some exams during her (unrealised tww) before she knew she was UTD. Her bub was 110% gorgeous (though the bottle-top growing out of her ear looks a bit odd :))

Time time time.

Thanks for the vent! :)

Blayz - I hope AF stays away.

Drbeee - I am glad that you are feeling better. Pg and AF symptoms are very similar because of the rise in prog. For some people it is hard to know the difference. Prog is also an immune suppressant so that is why so many of us have colds at the moment.

Welcome karena and CAH to the 2ww. I hope you get your bfp at the end!

Missy - sorry that you are feeling sick again. I hope it passes very soon.

Good luck everyone

Hey Drdeee I know how you feel about every little symptom. Im doign the same here. My nipples were abit tender but not the boobs are abit too. But am I reading into it as I feel like AF is coming and is that pre Af signs. Arggggg I hate this time. I hope you get your bfp at the end.

Bg Im feeling abit better now. The nose seems to have dried up. YAY. but have pains in the tum very much like AF so that is abit worrying.

Hey Lynn I know af and pg signs are almost the same. Geee its a pain you know, as you think, oh boobs are sore, good sign but then AF shows her ugly head. Good luck you too hun!!!

hi girls
the progesterone/crinone/booster shots all, from what i've read, do a great job of messing with our heads in regards to symptoms - sucks big time! you so want to be able to work out if AF is coming, or if you're getting early pg symptoms, and can't!

missy - glad you're feeling a bit better this arvo - i'm thinking i may be starting to get a bit of a cold at the moment - nothing too drastic, but was VERY sneezy yesterday, and a bit snuffly today - my bro and SIL both have the flu, and had to drop some stuff there yesterday, so wouldn't be surprised if they decided to share (i know mum told bro and I to share when we were kids, but there are some things i just don't need from him!)


drbeee - glad you survived your cold - looks like there's still hope for us missy! i guess i'm just worried that all the sneezing and stuff will mess with implantation (sillly, i know, but my tummy muscles are sore from sneezing so much yesterday - that can't be good can it??)

Oh BG I so hope you dont get a cold as we cant take anything for it. Its so bad. I dont know if that would interfer with implantation, I hope not as if its going to happen for me it should have. Oh I still feel like AF is coming and spoke to DH and he said He remembers me saying that with DS but I thought I was further along but he said no. So I just have to wait.

i've felt like i have a combination of AF and UTI from the day i had the trigger shot - just a real tightness in my lower abdo - i figure i'm going to try so hard to ignore everything like that!

i doubt that sneezing would make any difference - but it's the little things we fixate on! i have sore tummy muscles from sneezing - and every time i sneezed yesterday i automatically grabbed my lower tum like i was protecting it - silly, huh?

i'm pretty certain i o'd from both sides early saturday morning, so i guess that makes me 4DPO today - from what i've read, implantation won't be for another few days if it happens....

Oh Bg how exciting. Im sure it will happen for you this month. Dont feel silly about holding tum as I find myself talking to my embies saying " come on little ones attach to mummy" but you know I dont feel silly about it. We just want kids and theres nothing more important to me then that.

i have been praying that this will happen for us so much - and DH has been kissing my tum each morning and night to encourage it along - it's very cute - kiss on the tum for a baby, kiss on the lips for me, then i have to roll over so he can kiss my shoulder goodnight for our angels (have a tat for our angels, and he kisses it goodnight every night - very sweet!)

the last couple of nights the tum has gotten more kisses than me though - wondering if i should be jealous....

lol Bg that is the nicest thing. Its so sweet. What a lovely DH you have there.

he's gorgeous - and he doesn't realise it! he thinks that all the things he does is normal and sometimes he struggles to hear about guys who don't do the same things! he's very sweet, and i coult my blessings every day that i was lucky enough that he chose me