Loops - I've been thinking about it all morning ....that I forgot to mention yesterday that on top of your medicare safety net, once you hit over $1500 out of pocket expense you can claim that on your tax!

I see that mitf has also mentioned this! It is so confusing - I think I understand about 80% of it all and still get confused reading it! The best thing would be to gather all your receipts and go to a medicare office (they are painful as there are so many people in them most of them time) or you could call them and just ask lots of questions until you understand how it works! If you have had expenses all year though mitf is right - you have probably reached your safety net limit already and that means you can get 80% back for any expense after the initial $1111.00. Glad to hear you are registered for safety net now - make sure DH is on the same account so all your costs go towards it together. I'm not sure if the safetynet can be backdated - i.e. it runs per calandar year - so not sure if nwo that you just registered if it will include all your costs for tis year - if so - you are in luck!

Also - another thing I am sure I read somewhere (and woudl be something we should all ask the accountant) is with the out of pocket expenses over $1500 - claiming back on tax thing - I think this can include your DH's as well - you just claim them on either yours or his tax return. But not sure!!

Away from the financials however....thank you to all your warm welcome's - you are all lovely ladies and it is such an interesting read - especially now that I am starting to come up to the next stage of learning - follicle sizes and egg numbers!! I can see how supportive it is to bounce your thoughts & feelings around with like minded & same situation people!

I had my 1st US this morning and all is "lovely and quiet", lining is 2mm and so I start on gonal injections (150 - small dose I beleive) this evening. Next scan next Tuesday - will see if there is much activity going on if not I beleive they will up the dose or stick on it for a few days more and US again a few days later.

I'm smiling but freaking that I could be doing an EPU in just over a week!

It is ineteresting you all seem to go for the blastie - which is day 5 yeah? I am with Melbourne IVF and so not sure what they 'like' to do as I beleive it varies from place to place in terms of what they think about day 2/3 transfer v's day 5 or so. Are any of you ladies with MIVF?