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The ongoing search for BFPs now leads the BESH to the barren polar wastes, in the footsteps of Scott, Shackleton and Franklin.

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ArielThePiraticalMermaid · 19/02/2013 22:35

Pack those reindeer sleeping bags, huskies and skis - we're off to the Antarctic to look for our BFPs. Unlike Scott, we'll eat the poniez if necessary (topical joke). Let's huddle together through the Antarctic night and we'll try not to kidnap one of the emperor penguin toddlers for our very own. Bring on blizzards, pack ice, shipwreck, attacking leopard seals, voyages across the Southern Ocean in rowing boats and hazardous traverses of South Georgia in search of rescue - just like the Shackleton expedition, NO BESH WILL BE LEFT BEHIND.

(do I win the prize for most random fred ever?)

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FriendofDorothy · 19/02/2013 23:31

Hang on... let me fish out my reindeer skin suit.

Ready... now where are the huskies?

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FrankellyMyDearIDontGiveADamn · 20/02/2013 06:26

Sorry BESH. Two tests this morning (FRER and Superdrug) and both are negative.

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TWinklyLittleStar · 20/02/2013 06:51

Oh frank :( I'm sorry.

What's your chart doing now?

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lovesLemonDrizzleCake · 20/02/2013 07:03


Sorry frank. That is crap. Was really, really hoping and expecting it to be different.
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FrankellyMyDearIDontGiveADamn · 20/02/2013 07:16

That's the stupid thing. It's still up

I'm devastated. And feel stupid for getting my hopes up. I shouldn't have tried to kid myself, this kind of thing doesn't happen to me.

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lovesLemonDrizzleCake · 20/02/2013 07:41

That is weird frank. And in a way quite promising. I think something happened in there this month, but perhaps it is not strong enough to stick or you may be one of those freaky people having great difficulty getting a positive pee-stick but end up with a take home baybee in 8 months all the same.

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maamalady · 20/02/2013 08:05

Oh, Frank :(

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Northey · 20/02/2013 08:11




frank, your temp is still up and there is no droid, and yesterday was very faint anyway. It genuinely could be as faif says and nothing will show up for a while longer. Or it could be a proper bastard negative, of course. But hang on for a few days and test again before writing it all off.
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Northey · 20/02/2013 08:12

Can the PESH fred be The Bay of Whales? Wink

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FrankellyMyDearIDontGiveADamn · 20/02/2013 08:17

Thanks everyone. I'm still at the bursting into tears stage at the moment. I've left a message at the clinic so am waiting for them to call me back. Managed to start crying halfway through the bloody message so they're bound to think I'm a nutcase.

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HavingALittleFaithBaby · 20/02/2013 08:20


I'd hold on to some hope with your temp being up still Frank - it's well above the cover line, not like it's hovering just above. Stoopid pee sticks. I hope the clinic are helpful.
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FriendofDorothy · 20/02/2013 08:38

Sit tight Frank. Your temp is proper high still. Wait and see for a definite answer I reckon.

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SinkyMalinks · 20/02/2013 08:49




I'm now imagining an emperor penguin style besh huddle around frank. Quite rightly too.
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ArielThePiraticalMermaid · 20/02/2013 09:06

Frank so sorry, love. I won't say it still might be positive because I always find that hard.

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ArielThePiraticalMermaid · 20/02/2013 09:06

Of not if

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JethroTull · 20/02/2013 09:56

Sorry Frank

Let us know what the clinic say.

Nice Fred btw Rie

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Northey · 20/02/2013 09:59

Don't cry, lovely. Hope is such a loathsome, loathsome fucker.

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EuroShagmore · 20/02/2013 10:02

WTAF? Oops, sozzles, that was the old fred.

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Northey · 20/02/2013 10:18

Mmm, nice and cosy in here, isn't it?

The clinic is currently burying four embryos in the pack ice! They technically miss the clinic's freezing quality criteria by a whisker, but I argued that I completely understood the greater chance of failure and got them to agree to freeze anyway. Just in case this one fails. I'd rather have a go at shoving some poor quality ones up there before doing the whole druggy cycle again. It's cheaper as well...

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ArielThePiraticalMermaid · 20/02/2013 10:26

Bring 'em with you Norf! I'm sure the emperor dads can be trusted to look after them.

In honour of this thread I might call you Soufy. See what I did there?

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EuroShagmore · 20/02/2013 10:26

That's great news Norfy (and very fred appropriate)!

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Northey · 20/02/2013 10:34

I want to go to the South Pole now!

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ArielThePiraticalMermaid · 20/02/2013 10:42

I don't know what's going on with me. The last two cycles have been 32 days. Today I am having spotting (red) on day 28. Normally I fluctuate a bit, but also normally if I get a hurty boob cycle they go down a day or so beforehand. They are still agony.

But the blood is red rather than brown. And I have womble cramps.

I'm supposed to call the clinic on day one of the cycle to organise stuff but I don't want to yet

Help!

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Northey · 20/02/2013 10:47

Give them a ring and say you are spotting but not full flow and what do they want you to do. They might want to get things ready and then have you call back later to say it's turned into torrents of gore or has gone away or whatever.

Or you could waste a fiver.

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