Hey girls,
Paula:It is perfectly normal for the meds to muck you around a bit. I find I'm usually symptom free until about my 8th or 9th injection and then i feel quite awful.
Nicole: This has to be it- dosent it.!I read Tiffany's story with baited breath it was so inspirational. I felt very inspired after reading this that it WILL happen . I loved having a chat to my nurse yesterday it just confirmed that with ivf there are NO straight answers. I explained to her how i was so sure that last month before i got my period i was so sure that i was pregnant then the symptoms went away and Af arrived.She said you have to wonder if the blastocyst was starting to fertilise but for some reason known only to a higher power your body rejected it and then as per usual you get your period. But then if it fertilised then that could have resulted in a miscarriage or worse later on. And that as far as a human race goes even without fertility issues our chances of reproducing each cycle are just below 20%. Which as a species is one of the lowest reproductive rates out there. Pretty poor. And also there is the gene thing that every single pregnancy has the possibilty of chromosomal abnormality from the mother or the father and maybe thats why that egg dosent fertilise. Also because an egg looks good with measurements it dosent mean that it is good.And also if you have 3 embies on board and one is 18 and one is 22 and one is 15;it dosent mean that the biggest ones will neccessarily fertilise. It could just as likely be the small one or all 3. There are absolutely no rules. Also if you always ovulate on cd 18 your body can one month decide to ovulate on cd10 and produce wonderful ripe embies and surge then. She said she has been surprised many a time with a womans body throwing a curve ball so to speak. So thats why they monitor us so frequently.I hope this information helps you all as it helped me from giving myself the blame game over my eggs.You know my nurse was saying too that they have to be so careful as to how many embies are produced during a cycle because women will go in and go right off their heads if there is a multiple pregnancy that it is IVF"S fault. I couldnt believe that!
Belinda:You hang in there girl, try and not test- however we all know what its like if your resolve weakens and you do. Hopefully easter will keep you distracted enough to keep you away from the box. I am so happy for you that things are going so well and i am really ROOTING(hehehe)for you that this is your month.We would all be so happy to see one of us get through. However i still have no doubt in my mind that it will happen for THE TEAM and it wont take long. This is our year girls,THE YEAR OF THE RAT.
HAVE A DIVINE EASTER TO ALL OF YOU WONDERFUL LADIES, enjoy your friends and family and eat lots of CHOCOLATe.
P>S goodluck with your scans on Monday girls.
And you totally have my support with the drinking thing and smoking. My DP is off both until I SAY. ITs not all bad he gets ME-who is incredible in bed (HAHA)all the time. Sex on tap.. But the price is no social drinking or smoking unless i have AF(cause then I'm likely to join him)