Hi all!

Rather hazy Congrats on your first big appointment. It seems like a lot of info to take in all at once, but I hope you will find it all to be straight forward once you get going. The nurses are usually very good at explaining just each step as you go along so it's not too much to undertake. It's very exciting!As far as your, um, presentation is concerned my take on it is that people come in a lot of different shapes and sizes - and the doctors do spend a lot of time poking a lot of people. It's hard not to feel self conscious, but I try to remember I'm probably one of a number that's been poked that day! I had a brazillian once, and felt more vulnerable and silly then than I ever have at a Dr appointment!They get paid enough, they can deal with what's down there Waffle mode off...

Miss C I'm so sorry to hear that your pick up was such a painful affair for you. I hope you are feeling much better now, and are being looked after

belle333 hi and good luck with your first cycle! I am just at the tail end of mine at the moment. Like you, I'm slightly polycystic too and I couldn't believe how good I felt on the gonal f injections. I had heaps more energy, and felt generally better than I have in a long time - I was joking to my hubby that I'd continue to take them later. I thought it was just me, but maybe it's to do with the PCO? Something I'll be looking into later anyway, for my general state of mind. I'll let you know what I find out! What sort of cycle are you doing?

rh76 and waiting1 sorry to hear you are here again

Over this way, it's been a bit of a rollercoaster few days!! I stuffed up mixing my pregnyl shot a bit, leaving 50% of the water in the ampule (it was stuck in the lid and I didn't realise). Apparently it's only a problem if you lose more than 50% but I was still pretty annoyed with myself.

I'd been told at my last scan that I had 6 eggs waiting for pick up, so you can imagine my surprise when I woke up Saturday to find that I had 11 mature eggs taken. My hubby was in the recovery bed beside me after his testicular biopsy, and he said I woke up about 5 times and asked him how many they got LOL I don't remember a thing!

Hubby's biopsy went all fine, even without any sedation at all, rather hazy! And he said he wasn't even sore afterwards. Just as well, because I was quite bloated and in a reasonable amount of pain, so he had to play nurse a bit. 3 days later I'm still quite sore and bloated really, not what I expected at all. He's obviously tougher than I.

We were supposed to be doing transfer on Thursday at blastocyst stage, so I was a little bit freaked out when I was called yesterday and found out just 3 of my 11 eggs had fertilised, and they wanted me to come in for transfer today! The nurse wouldn't tell me how healthy our buddies were when I directly asked, so I was conjuring up all kinds of scenarios in my head - they're not healthy enough etc etc. In the end it turned out a numbers game - if you have less than 4, their protocol is to do 3 day transfer unless you specifically ask for you. Information that would have been handy yesterday!!! I digress

We found out today our 3 buddies are in fact in good health. One compacted, one 10 cell and one 12 cell which is apparently quite good.

The transfer was all over before I really had a chance to contemplate it too much - it was a real buzz to see the little buddie flash up on the ultrasound screen as it was transferred into me.

So that's that! Already I'm in the two week wait - it feels so quick to be here already. I had a nice day with my feet up with hubby servicing my every whim - what a lucky girl! He's very excited about our jelly bean too.

I hope everyone has had a fantastic long weekend. Good luck to everyone, I guess I'll be popping into the other thread mostly now. Can I still post here from time to time? What's the etiquette!?

Thinking of you all

Tish
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Sorry for the war and peace post!!