Cathy - I just leave Kyson's teething necklace on overnight. I usually only take it off while he's eating (don't want food crusty's in between beads, lol), and for water activities like the bath, pool, shower etc.
Isn't it so cute when the bub's start learning new tricks? Lol. Kyson has got "gimme 5" down pat. He also sometimes waves bye bye. It's funny when I want him to wave hello to someone and instead I have to say bye bye to him to get him to wave hehe.

Nay - I've given Kyson a smidge of vegemite before. I put it on a little sandwich because I wasn't sure what else I could put on a sandwich for him. I kept it very light though.

Jacinta - Nice hcg level! That IS what the number on fb was yeah?

Amy - Hopefully by the time I get worried about changing seats for Kyson you'll have it all worked out and I'll just be able to ask you! My problem at the moment is that DH's car has leather seats and I hate how much Kyson's seat moves on them. He's still rear facing and the front of the seat (where his head is) seems to moves from side to side a bit when the car is going around corners. DH says it's normal, but I still don't like it. My car is so small that his seat touches both front seats. That's not meant to be the best thing, but I figure if I'm in a car accident that's bad enough for the front seats to push back and affect his seat, then then a cm or two between his seat and the front seats isn't really going to make a whole balogne sandwich worth of difference...
PS. I've seen one of Bella's wraps in person and it was gorgeous. I love how she coordinates her wrap with her outfit!

Vic - What a naughty little monkey Cerys is when you are telling her off, hehe. Sometimes when I growl "too rough" at Kyson he smiles at me too and gosh it's so hard not to laugh or smile at them!
What a sneaky tooth number 5. Hopefully now that it's here you'll get a better nights sleep tonight.

Bella - What a nice little sleep-in you got this morning. Hopefully her single waking through the night is a new trend. It's much better than the 4 times a night!
Also, should I be secretly hoping that you have an "accident" despite planning on waiting to ttc?

Nicole - I completely agree with Bella. If the doc's were concerned then I'm sure they would have gotten you to come in earlier.

Bridg - Fantastic news about the hips! Does that mean he's gotten the all clear?

BG and Nay - Firstly, LMAO @ dildocam! Classic! I felt a little embarassed when DH went for his sperm analysis, and then realised that surely it's much worse for us girls that actually have objects inserted INSIDE us! LOL!

As for whether my cycle will be the down-cycle or antagonist one (thanks for the terminology!), I actually have no idea to be honest. It was mostly spoken about at the compulsory counciling session which was like a group info session where they really generalised what a typical cycle might consist of. Then our PGD session yesterday was more about the actual science of how they were going to test the embies (exactly how you explained it BG!), rather than what my cycle would entail. I guess I'll find out the particulars next wednesday

My assumption is that we're not going to use ICSI (pending DH's swimmer analysis results, but considering they've worked 3 times before...), and the good news about my ovaries is that my baseline pelvic ultrasound showed at least 20 folicles in each ovary. Apparently that is ideal for a stimulated cycle (yay ovaries!). Oh, here's a fun fact! Before having Kyson I had a retroverted uterus (the top sloped in the wrong direction), but apparently now it's in the normal position, lol!

We started going through Melb IVF, but weren't too keen on the geneticist. So our specialist told us that we might want to start a-fresh with Monash IVF (as they are totally seperate and don't have anything to do with each other), and we've been really happy with everyone we've dealt with at Monash so far. I almost laughed when the Monash genetecist just happened to mention a study he had done with the Melbourne genetecist. We just smiled and nodded

At Monash IVF they wait until day 3 for cell collection and the embie has to have at least 5 cells. We've been told to expect that not all eggs will fertilise, then that some won't be suitable to test, and then that at least 50% won't be suitable for transfer. Fingers crossed my ovaries decide to churn out quite a few eggs to up the chances! At least our chance of the embie that's transferred (assuming we have one) sticking as apparently quite good.

Gosh, I'm really taking over this thread with all this! Hopefully the mods won't smac me for being off-topic...

BG - Also just wanted to say that I think you are pretty special. You always have so much time to give to others when it comes to advice, help and support. Not just for me, and not just in this thread, but I've seen how much you help others with centrelink info as well! You should be proud of yourself because you really help others!

Cathy (again ) - Oh please tell me that they DO get a break from teething at some point. I don't know how me (or Kyson) will hope if this goes on much longer. And he hasn't even got ANY yet! I know the exact playpen you are talking about. I saw one on ebay just before while I was looking at playpens. It looks really cute. I know what you mean about them moving so quickly too. I put Kyson at one of his toys on the other side of the lounge room, put two things in the dishwasher and turned around just as Kyson jammed his fingers in a kitchen draw. Who knows how he got behind me so fast! Lucky it was pretty softly, but he still cried. I'll have to get all the safety latches now though!


Ok, phew, that's surely got to be a big enough post for now, lol. And it's only taken me about 5 hours to write!