What I forgot to add before is that positive thinking won't change the outcome of your cycle, but it will completely change your experience of your cycle. It's a quality of life thing and it's definitely something worth pursuing, which is another reason why I wouldn't want to bring anyone down. I think it's very valuable, just not essential.

W&D, I recently had a co-worker (mid-20s, so not as bad) tell me she was pg with an (initially) unwanted oops. It was doubly hard since she told me when she was 10wks and I couldn't help but immediately think "that's when we found out we lost our baby in January". It's hard to get these bombshells dropped on us sometimes. Glad to hear your cycle is going well. FX for the IUI!

Nire, Happy belated-Birthday!

Miss.B, hope you're feeling better soon.

Afm, b/w showed E2 rising further (1252), so should see LH surge in the next few days. Finding the lack of sleep brutal. I had to get up at 4.45am this morning to get to the monitoring but didn't get to sleep until almost 1am (thank you insomnia ) and then I woke at 4.35am before the alarm, so lost an extra 10 mins of precious sleep! At least it was better than Thursday night (only 2 hours). Proving to be a long day at work though. Hoping I get to sleep early tonight or tomorrow's trip to the clinic (another 5am start) may ruin me... Wishing I drank coffee right about now as I'm running out of steam. Arrived at work at 6.45am and trying to make it through to 6pm so I have less to do at home during the rest of the week...