Long Term TTC & Assisted Conception - August 2007

[slyder]

BG, very sorry to read about your news. Is the clinic going ahead with BT?

Hi Smithy and GL. If you fell pg prior to your first IVF cycle, are they not going to give you the chance to see if it could happen again?

Megan, glad you're getting straight back into it.

Sparkles, it's great you had such a good time on your holiday. Bit of a shame DH couldn't go I guess, but hopefully his stress levels reduce. Where do you think you'd live if you moved o/seas? Anyway, to answer your questions, we haven't really given a lot of thought to the transfer date as we don't want to be too presumptuous regarding successful EPU and fertilisation. That said, provided DW's levels continue to remain good, EPU will probably be towards the end of this week. I'm having a bit of trouble getting my head around my sperm actually being able to fertilise the egg/s as that just seems so huge, but then I remind myself that it's biology and that's what they do.

As far as whether it's been easy, obviously I can only speak for us as everyone has different experiences, but so far it hasn't been a problem at all. We're 75% or so of the way there with the needles and they have been fine, and DW has had two BTs both of which have been very quick and straightforward. Her body is responding as it should thus far, so we're hoping there wont be any hiccups along the way. From the perspective of daily life nothing has changed for us at all, and neither of us are any different from usual. But for you, if you guys do end up doing IVF my advice is to take it all one step at a time and don't be scared of it. If you can keep the mental side of things in check, the rest will follow.