Chekigal - welcome! I hope you get some good news today regarding the fertilisation.
Trea - What did I do differently this time around? I feel kind of bad saying it, but it was my first cycle. I know that's a success story (especially if the next couple of months are smooth sailing and bub is healthy), but in a way it makes me feel guilty that there are so many strong women on here, all doing the right things (dropping weight if overweight, putting some on if underweight, eating pregnancy diets, cutting out caffeine and sugar (me), giving up smoking) yet the BFP eludes them.
But to answer your question, what I did was: laparoscopy was Oct 09, Fibroid and Endo removed. 2 x Hysteroscopies. I decided that I would go to a fertility acupuncture specialist, and started that about a fortnight before my EPU. He did say that ideally I should have been having acupuncture at least a month or two beforehand. I had acu just before EPU and then a couple of hours after ET, with more acu every week.
I tried to keep up my 3ltrs of water/powerade a day and as much protein as I could (although I got sick of chicken breasts, so drank a lot of sustagen instead). I had lukewarm showers (instead of the scalding hot ones that I love) and did not use any heat packs on my belly for fear that it would raise my temp too high.
After ET the heaviest thing I lifted was a basket of clothes when doing laundry, and the most strenuous task was vacuuming and mopping. My job keeps me on my backside at least 5 hours a day. All I can say is thank god I'm not a cattle farmer!
So I guess I probably didn't do anything different to what everyone else does each cycle. I tried to remain positive as much as I could even though DH and I had some cracking barneys and I was probably a bit too stressed for my liking. I spoke to the little blastie probably every 5 minutes telling it that both Mummy and Daddy was so looking forward to holding it in roughly 8mths, and that the little darling was going to have it's own nursery with everything a baby could ever want (note to self, must put in a lotto to pay for said furnishings!). Reading what others have done, it sounds like we all talk to the embryo and rub our bellies sending our love to it.
What have you been doing for your cycles? Pretty much the same?
OMG, I just typed the longest post ever, individually thanking everyone for their congrats, and asking questions and answering some and it just disappeared! I think I got logged out because I took too long. Damn it. I am at work so will have another go at it tonight.
Can I just say for now thank you to all the lovely ladies who have taken the time to post and say congrats. It means a lot, and being a multiple cycler I was starting to lose the faith and thought I might never get to this stage. Hang in there and don't lose hope. I just know there are many more wonderful BFPs that will come from you lovely ladies!
kmm did I read right have you just added to the bfp list? 3 bfp's in on week wow hopefully this is the start of a flood of bfp's.
saw the nurse today and saw the needles for the first time today just about fell over the back of the chair and needed to change my undies I really hate needles but all for the greater good just can't wait to have all injections over and done with thankfully woohoo took my last pill today still geting headaches and poor dh is coping alot of my emotional mood swings. The nurse said some of the sypmptoms will ease when I start the injections but then get worse agaoin so a break in all of that will be good. I think my period is coming full flow which will be good get it out of my system as I have now been spotting for what feels like a million years then my body can go back to normalish for a bit.
hope top log on tommorrow and see another bfp who else is waiting to find out?
So, we saw our FS this afternoon. Predictably, he said our highest chance of success was with another IVF. Since I'm 8dpo today we had the option of starting immediately for a May cycle. So, we picked up the synarel on the way out and I'm supposed to start sniffing tonight. But, I'm going to be bad and hold out until morning and POAS first (just in case, you never know your luck)... I'm not going to hold my breath (especially since it'd be 9dpo), but I just feel better about doing it that way. Besides, I've started the synarel at 9dpo in the past and it has worked fine.
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