Saffy, well done! that's a great number and here's hoping they fertilise nicely. When do you find out???? xx
Sunbeam!! Welcome back, we missed you!! So sorry your back has been bad - my brother suffers from it too and I know how difficult it is to get through the day. Glad you enjoyed your holiday anyway but hope things improve before you start your IVF. Ferrals was right, the first go at IVF is always a bit of an experiment so this cycle is bound to work better.
Thanks Crafty, I love your fighting spirit. Good luck with the TWW - hope the Clomid did the trick x
Toomanyshoes, glad the weekend wasn't as bad as you feared - it's always hard being home with the inlaws, they just can't help themselves with giving advice. Sorry so many of your friends are due soon and I really empathise with the tears. Wish I could say something to make things better
Possum, thanks lovely, it rained a bit but mostly sunshine which was nice as we've had so many grey weekends lately. One of my little hens is getting old and I had to clean her up because she was covered in poo! (sorry if TMI!) then I decided to clean out their enclosure and found a rat in the layer box. So what did I do? I picked it up and of course it bit me! Lucky I'd had tetanus up to date and was wearing gloves so it was OK more a shock than anything. Still don't know why I picked it up but there you go! Other than that my weekend was pretty quiet. Hope you had a good one x
everyone else - hope you are all well and being kind to yourselves x
Sunbeam- welcome back, we did miss you, glad you had a relaxing time. What a pain that your back has to ruin all the benefit of your relaxation, that must be sooo frustrating. Fingers crossed for Round 2- you can do it x
Alice- the rat story just about made me puke, I HATE rats, can't believe you picked it up- and it was alive!!! Foul. On a more serious note, I can't believe you ( or anyone) has to contemplate not ever having a child, it is such a hard sentence to even say. I really hope that something works out for you, I know it must be hard to hang all your hopes on a frozen embie, but as Indiasmum said there are different ways of being a mummy. You are such a lovely, kind person with such a lot of love to give you deserve to make someone else happy. My counsellor I was seeing was big on having a plan and thinking about what you were going to do if you never became a mother, I found it very confronting but i understood where she was coming from. Positive thoughts to you and hope your body gets on track quickly
toomanyshoes- I doubt I will ever go through a month without doing those calculations again- it becomes ingrained doesn't it. Avoid facebook where possible, glad the weekend was ok x
1+2=3-welcome, sorry you have to be here sweetie, I hope you find support xx
Craftmummy-how many days post O are you??
Possummagic-just DTD everyday you get the EWCM, you ovualte at the end of it, I used to not pay attention to it and missed Oing as mine is sometimes early Day 9-11. Hope you catch the egg! x
India'smum-sorry you missed the egg, hope your health is improving, or is it a long term thing xx
Phew, I think that is it, sorry if I missed anyone, had some catching up to do, hi to all the preggy girls who are stalking, hope we all come to join you soon x
AFM- phone call from FS nurse this am just when DH and I were discussing it, got 6 fertilized eggs! Very pleased with that, so am hoping there will be 1 or 2 to freeze FX.
ET booked for Saturday then on to the TWW- yay!
LOL Saffy I don't know what's wrong with me I just saw small furry animal and instinct was to pick it up. What an idiot! I'm going to docs today just to make sure I don't need antibiotics or anything 'cause everyone I told yesterday looked at me with horror like I had the bubonic plague! Anyway, it was a bush rat which is much smaller than the ones you get in the city, and really not THAT much bigger than a mouse. Still next time I will leave it well alone! I had the same conversation with a counselor many years ago and also found it confronting. It is less so as time moves on and I feel we have done all that we can. I do believe I will have a family so it's just a matter of investigating how that could happen. I am really encouraged about fostering after hearing quite a few positive stories so I think that is the path we will go down if our frostie doesn't make it. We have other things going on so I have to wait until May next year to try again then we can get things in motion. I really want to see some positive news here before I have a break - you ladies deserve it so much, I'd like to just have one place to visit you all in the PAML thread so please make my life easier and move on over there soon! Thanks for your kind words too - means a lot to me. xx
And thats FANTASTIC news about the fertilisation rates - will be cheering for you all the way!!
Everyone seems a bit brighter today. It's been a hard few weeks for us all so it's nice to see that optimism emerging once again.
Saffy - wonderful news about the 6 eggs.
Sunbeam - Welcome back. Sorry about your back. I was imagining you would come back all healthy and refreshed. I hope things pick up soon.
Alice - Mum has bush rats at her place and they look rather sweet but as you have proved, they are not sweet at all.
AFM - I have been having tummy problems for awhile but nothing that won't be resolved with a bit of time. The doctor thinks I may have an small infection in the colon so I am on antibiotics for that, I have a very acid tummy too and I think I made that worse as I took the baby aspirin last month thinking I might be pregnant. Also, the last pregnancy stirred up my hemorrhoids (sorry TMI) and I am trying to get that back under control before I get pregnant again which will stir it up again. All my hair is falling out (again, thanks to being pregnant recently) and I have a shocking cold. But otherwise I am feeling ok and optimistic.
will post properly tomorrow but wanted to ask quick question (sorry for selfish me post but i got a +ive OPK so i'm very um... focused at the moment!) After 2 days EWCM and no 2nd line on OPK today i got a very clear positive OPK. So i'm off on an egg hunt! But i also got one small spot of red/brown (blood ?) today. I'm sure i remember someone posting that they had some spotting around ovulation time. Can't remember who though. NEver had it before. What's with that????? Anyone got any advice? Nothing to worry about?
possummagic-sorry,not sure about the blood,wouldn't think it was anything to worry about seen it was just a spot & brownish, just wanted to say happy hunting...
Still lurking here. Thank you very much everybody for your kind words, you made me feel a bit better, so I am not giving up yet...
possum - a tiny speck of blod around O time is normal and can be a good sign. It may be blood released after the egg bursts out of the follicle, so probably a sign that you ovulated. I hope you did your homework girl!
I just wanted to share this little warning with you ladies. Perhaps it is nothing, but better safe than sorry I guess. So I am trying to figure out the cause for my ectopic because I do not have any risk factors, other than age. Around 3-4 days past ovulation I had really bad stomach virus and I took anti-diaharreal medication. Those medications slow down the smooth muscles contractions so your intestines can calm down. But smooth muscles contractions is what moves the fertilized egg from the tube to the uterus, so if you slow them down, I guess the egg goes nowhere. I asked a doctor if it is possible that the medication caused my ectopic, and he said that the theory makes sense, but there is not enough data, so it is impossible to prove. You will make your own decision of course, but if I am ever again in this situation, I think I'd rather spend a week on the toilet than take a risk.
1+2 - I know it is not impossible, my own grandmother had a second child at 44 and I know that she could not have been trying more than just a couple of months (jugding by the time betwein my grandpa's return home from the hitler-stalin inferno and my uncle's birth). I am just not sure if I will be this lucky too. Unlike my grandma, I smoked cigarettes in my 20-ties for a couple of years and now I am thinking I destroyed my own eggs with my own hands. You have no idea how much I regret it.
Saffy - you are my best bet for the cheer-me-up happy story now. With 6 eggs successfully fertilized, I think the odds are pretty good. I will be waiting for good news then.
Alice - how are you doing? I cannot believe you picked up a RAT. They did not want to give you a rabies shot?
well done! that's a great number and here's hoping they fertilise nicely. When do you find out????
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and of course it bit me! Lucky I'd had tetanus up to date and was wearing gloves so it was OK more a shock than anything. Still don't know why I picked it up but there you go! Other than that my weekend was pretty quiet. Hope you had a good one x
everyone else - hope you are all well and being kind to yourselves x
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