Mel, suddenly I feel so much more relaxed knowing there's someone only a day or so ahead of me. I've never had a cycle buddy before, but that's mainly been because my body has completely refused to do anything normally. I figure if I do bleed, it won't be very heavy - there's only been 10 days of active pill tablets between the last breakthrough bleed I had and yesterday when I stopped. The FS mentioned that as horrible as the bleeding was, it was what they wanted/needed anyway. There just won't have been much time for anything to build up significantly since.
DJ, I so hope this is it for you! Same for Megan and Kim. Hopefully our other Megan has got the ball rolling and we can have a mass exodus from here very soon.
Had a very emotional conversation with DH last night, about how many embryos we may get and what to do with them... There was some discussion of only fertilising 3-4 eggs regardless of how many we get, but I think we are now leaning towards my preference of fertilising them all and seeing how we go. The clinic will go to blast stage if we have more than 3 on day 2, I believe, and I suspect that if we get to that stage, then we'll probably have a lot drop off. Donating our unused embryos to others is a very real possibility for us, but I do know that we could both feel entirely differently about that when we actually have embryos and children, so we'll see how it goes. Was a very long, emotional conversation and I'm still feeling a little unsettled by it. It's one week today until I start injections! In fact, this time next week I need to be at the clinic, and that seems really scary! You wait so long for everything to start, but when it does, it really races by!
YAY MEGAN - Can't wait for official news today but am very excited for you. Sending you lots of
Fingers crossed for Willow and Lou as well.
BW - DP and I has a similar discussion about embies and freezing and how many to use and the like the other night and it left me a bit unsettled as well. I think that most of it was because he didn't really understand the process of it all (in his eyes he just does what I tell him when I tell him and otherwise ignorance is bliss). His problem as I see it is that he just assumes that it will work first time prefectly and all will be fine so we won't need more than one embie anyway. While I adore his positive approach I don't want him to be overly disappointed if it does go quite as planned.
Boo - af for me is due this Saturday which seems crazy because I have been having 'symptoms' from very early on.
I can't help getting a little excited but I also don't want a huge dissappointment.
I have just never had so many symptoms before especially the cm, there is just so much all the time it's embarrasing!!!
How are you going?
WOW, I've been away for the weekend and I've missed so much!!! I'll try to cover everyone...
Megan - congratulations!!! It's so good to hear of one of us getting a BFP - it can happen!! You must be thrilled, although probably still anxious for the b/t tomorrow. GL
Willow - GL tomorrow for your b/t. I've got my fingers crossed for you! Let us know how you go.
Loula - GL with your transfer tomorrow!!
DJTTC - I really hope that all your symptoms mean you're pg. Fingers crossed for you. I hope AF stays away & you get your BFP!
TwoMums - I hope all goes well & you have your IUI on Thursday. GL
GL to everyone else that I've missed. I hope everyone had a good weekend. Our meeting is on Friday to start IVF... I'm not sure how I feel about it. Anxious I guess. I can't quite belive that we're doing it. I still hope that a week later we'll find out that we fell pg naturally this month, but I doubt it! I'm trying not to think about it because I'm sure I'll be thinking about it 24/7 once it all starts...
Jo - things are ok with me, just plodding along - hanging out for the end of April to arrive! Your symptoms sound very promising - I'll be looking out for your BFP announcment at the end of the week!
Taffy, my DH is completely different - he seems to want to know how everything works, and which drug does what and how long do I take it... In some ways he's been the more optimistic one (thinking that 10 embryos would = 10 kids!). I'm quite happy to just go with the flow for now, and start getting stressed if it looks like I'm going to get some ridiculously huge number of eggs. I'd still like to have them all fertilised, as I know that not all will fertilise, not all will grow to blast, and not all will survive freezing and thawing, and it seems to me that letting natural selection decide which eggs will make it that far is better than us deciding to only fertilise 5 eggs. How do we know that the 5 we choose will be the ones that can make it? It's a really huge thing to comprehend, and it's pretty much a role reversal here - normally I'm the one who freaks out and must have everything planned and DH will sit back and go with the flow. Strange.
Boo, April will be here sooner than you think! It feels like the year's just started, and we're already half way through February!
Sammi Jane, good luck for Friday! It's an exciting step, but very scary at the same time. I find I'm doing really well not thinking about it 24/7, as work keeps me extremely busy. Just remember, we've got Leah working for us as well, and I feel so much more relaxed about IVF because of that, and I think perhaps a little more hopeful, too!
DJ, those symptoms are very promising! that AF stays away for a very long time!
Willow, hope the wait today hasn't been too hard on you. I guess tomorrow is test day - not long now!
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