Assisted Conception (and all the bits in between) volume 7

Nook - that is great, a grade 1 too!! All the best.

Rowing glad bleeding stopped - hoped it can continue all ok. Yes, hobbling in the sun is good.

lissy- they do know what is wrong, but I don't get to see the stroke consultant until July to find out!!! For now am focussing on returning to normal and am hoping it doesn't happen again. My speech is now totally normal - always good in my job!

Fabulous news Nook - all the best.

Congrats nooknook and fingers crossed it sticks! X

OOOOOH congrats nooknook xxxxxxxxxxxx

Fingers crossed for your 2WW- what is the official test date?

Italian Thanks for the info - will definitely check regularly now.

My news is I had one embryo replaced on Thursday (grade 1, 8 cell) so now on the two week wait! The other three embryos were a bit of a mixture so we'll see if they freeze any for future use.

Love to All x

Hi all,
Italian, thanks for that! I have had a look at the video and will do the check tomorrow because that is about a week from CD1.

Hi all,
Italian feel awful for your friends, I hope they have found it in time. Must admit I very seldom or even never check my breasts. Is it just after AF you do it? I will try to remember, hopefully not when I am standing in the park or somewhere it wouldn't really be possible.

The bleeding really seems to have stopped, and no biscuits (so far) today so looking good. Now I just have to get all stressed about taking time off at work. They are very short-staffed because of the redundancy through 'natural wastage'. Basically about 12 people have left in the past 18 months and none have been replaced. Yes we were over-staffed, but not any more.

tortie that is so inconsiderate of Megan. She should really just be very grateful and accommodating about what you're doing for her [cshock]
Italianwow, what encouraging news that you conceived your dd through IUI at 39. I'd almost written it off already! I am mainly viewing it as a drug test run, as keziah said she would have liked to be able to do
rowing fx the bleeding really has stopped and the FET can go ahead
I'm sitting here with the wedding on, watching with half an eye, mainly holding out for THE dress though

Ha Ha!!!! Rowing- thats hilarious!!!

If my eggs go into hiding on EC day, I will slip Meg a note saying 'bet you wish you'd let me have a lie in now!!!'

Hi all,

Lissy, laughing at your DH's driving, although I'm sure you don't. Are you a back seat driver. I'm awful. I'm always telling DP to drive faster (yeah right!) He goes round corners at 50 miles an hour or something ridiculous. Hope the nausea goes away soon. Do you think probiotics would help?

Tortie grr at Meggy. How lovely to have a lie-in!
I hope she realises all your eggs are going to be in a bad mood and might walk out in protest if she keeps that up. I hope, for her sake, they don't walk out after transfer, that would teach her. Actually, this is getting a bit surreal.

I think the bleeding has almost stopped [whispering in case it hears]. So better start eating apples or something and not Easter eggs.

OOOOOOOH a babymoon!!!! how romantic!!!! Hope we get that far.....

I am pleased to be egg sharing, I love the thought of somebody else being given a chance which they otherwise wouldnt have had. Although I am in a bit of a grump with my 'receiving lady' at present Baseline scan is on Monday and we have to go to the clinic at totally opposite ends of the day so that we don't bump into each other. Well, my 'lady' (lets call her M-egg-an!!) has requested late appointments so that 'she can have a lie in and rest!!!'. So, I have to be at the clinic for 8am with DD which means getting her up at 6am so that we can get parked at the hospital. I don't think that is very fair??!! But I feel very uncharitable and negative getting angry about it so am biting my tongue, smiling sweetly and getting early nights before all my scans. However, I will say one thing......

I hope Meggan gets a baby that wakes her up VERY early!!!!

Lucy-It took about six weeks for us to get an appointment at ARGC. Before you start an actual cycle, you have to do one month of a monitoring cycle, where they test your hormones, wait for you to ovulate, do a mid-cycle ultrasound, etc. They do this so they can figure out how you work, and therefore get the best idea of which kind of cycle is right for you. I did my monitoring cycle in January, but waited until now to start IVF cycle as DH and I went to Hawaii for my brother's wedding, and I would've gotten my BFP right before we went away.

Keziah-Glad to hear you're hobbling about. Are you feeling better? What a scary experience for you...I hope they'll be able to tell you what the cause is. It makes things a little less scary when there's an explanation.

rowing-DR is going fine. Felt super nauseous last night, but don't know if it was the drugs or DH's driving. I hope the bleeding is slowing down. I can't imagine how frustrating it would be to postpone again!

tortie- I agree with Lucy! You can babymoon in Barcelona! How romantic!

Italian-It must be such a relief to you and DH that things were aired in your counselling session. A huge weight was probably lifted off your shoulders! And it's still totally amazing to adopt. I'm thinking of putting myself on a list regardless of what happens...

Congrats to Wills and Kate! Have a great day!

Hi all,

Keziah, I'm glad you are mobile. How are the tests, anything found to explain your collapse? At least you can hobble in the sunshine at the moment.

Lucy FET is frozen embryo transfer. I don't know how much you know about the process, but it's what they do with left over embryos after IVF, if the quality is OK.
I'm going for donor embryo, which is more or less like adoption, but without the 2 year wait and the training (actually, I think I could do with the training).

I think the bleeding might be slowing. Scared to check...

tortie - can totally empathise with food eating right now! I have loved reading about your desire to egg share ... wish there were more lovely people out there like you, but sorry it has come full circle!

Hi lucylookout - hope all goes well. Having had to go straight for ICSI (our one and only, but thankful for NHS attempt) I am wishing we had been allowed to do IUI first, so could have made more of our ICSI - like reaction to medication, stimmulation being poor etc. In my head I would have asked more and thought more and maybe done some things differently. So hope if you do it that (IUI) it is positive for you (well hopefully a bfp first time!) Love your logic with the chocolate. Got given a plant -sigh, so seem to be making up for NO Easter egg - and not given one at church either (! oh to be a child!)

Itallian great you and Dh agree about adoption now. Wow, a useful session at Spring Harvest - wishing I had gone there now, not been for years - wanted to go again when "had a child" - oh the irony of that means not been for long time!

well I can hobble about on a crutch now - no idea about if I can go to work, but thank goodness for more bank hols! x

tortie I think research into Barcelona is a great idea. It's always good to have a contingency plan, and if all goes well at CRM and you get your bfp, you could still visit Barcelona for a 'babymoon'
rowing sorry, but what is FET? Fingers crossed that bleeding stops and all still goes to plan this cycle.
I know what you both mean about rubbish food, it's so hard to resist especially ar Easter. I've steadily worked my way through my chocolate, and have now started on ds's and dh's I'm working on the logic that when I've eaten it all, temptation will be gone too

I cannot seem to stop eating shit food- whole Easter egg last night, star bucks today, I've gone sugar mad.

welcome Lucy- argc does seem to have the gold standard doesn't it?? We are in the midlands though so London clinics would be a stressful journey to and from appointments. We keep looking at nurture in Nottingham if our go at crm in coventry does not work. although, I do have a really good quote from eugin in Barcelona and a promise that to do ivf there you only need 2 trips. Am half tempted to book an appointment for the autumn- clinic looks beautiful, flights aren't a bad price, stats are excellent and Barcelona is lovely. Well worth a look. X should be being positive really and not looking at other clinics!!!!!

Hi all,

Lissy that is sad about your friend. It all sounds very stressful. I hope she is finding some peace now with the family she has.
How is DR going - how exciting!!! [shriek]
Yes and not really into the removing body organ weight loss plan myself, but hey, if it works!

Lucy welcome. There have been a few successful pgs on here at ARGC, they seem to do everything they can to ensure success.

Italian what's happening! Are you preparing for the coming storm! Is May still looking likely?

Tortie that was so generous of you to donate eggs. There must be women out there today with children thanks to your act. I hope your kharma payback is coming and you get your bfp very soon.

I'm not so good. Stoopid hrt medication is prolonging AF, now have had 6 full days of bleeding. The Doc said 6 days were 'maximal' so if it hasn't stopped tomorrow morning I'm going to email him to cancel FET - AGAIN! [sob]
Had a real binge yesterday, was feeling fed-up and ate biscuits and chocolate at work (why do they buy that stuff!? It's like a sweet shop!)

That's good to hear that you've been impressed so far lissy. How long did you have to wait between your first consultation and treatment starting? Is this your first go? I hope you're not feeling too rubbish on the drugs and am glad you had a nice day with DH. I've only just sent my registration form in so expect to have to wait 6 - 8 weeks for an appt. I'm glad I'm doing IUI if only cos it'll keep me busy while I wait for the appt!