The Rat Smackteers will get their BFPs and they'll BROOK NO ARGUMENT

yay to keep, scarlett and little, good news all round today! looking forward to seeing another batch of BFP's on here very soon!

Congratulations little amazing news. So happy for you.

For anyone who's had an hsg, would I be ok to go in on my own, or will I need dh with me? Our appt it at 11ish, in a diff hospital to the one he works in, so he'd need to take the morning off and I don't want him to have to unless totally necessary

Hi all

Good news, I've seen my little bean with a flickering heartbeat, measuring exactly as it should be, 7wks 1day. We are very very very happy!

scarlet & keep I'm really pleased to hear you both had such positive appointments today

Hooray Scarlett that's great!

He was of the opinion my eggs were shit, and today she explained what factors he'd based that opinion on but also discredited the source, she said it was only looking at one or two factors not the whole picture.

oh scarlett that is such good news! Why did the previous consultant give you such a low chance, was it because you have just one tube?

keep me too

Wow what a difference a consultant makes! She was brilliant. It was obvious she had read my email & my notes, she went through all my results and what they mean, also how she would interprete them, and answered all the questions I'd raised in my email. She completely disagreed with the previous guy [without saying that in so many words] and when I asked what he had based his prognosis of

Oh yay Keep!! That's super efficient - v pleased for you!

yay - i have HSG booked for the 19th, and u/s for the 27th!
loving the NHS today

Keep brooking you get that appointment asap

hi everyone - am back from the clinic. I cried on the nurse, oops, as she was so nice and asked me if i'm ok.
So the consultant said that DH's sperm are borderline, he has 4% normal forms but v high count, she said they say anything above 5% is ok. She has asked him to do another one as the other two were only a month apart.

she did a manual check of me and said all seemed ok, and i have a 'lovely' cervix... I have to have an HSG and an ultrasound. Trouble is i'm cd4 and supposed to ring on cd1. And am moving to thailand before next month. She said they might fit me in this month, but otherwise we will try and go private before we go.

She said if there's nothing wrong with me then she recommends we just keep trying for the year we're away, as i am 'very young' (30 just about). She said we could do IUI but it's not funded here, and IVF is only funded after 3 years for unexplained.

All in all, as expected, i was vv nervous and did not like all the pregnant women wandering about while we were waiting. But wish we weren't moving to thailand quite yet, it's most convenient.

I have to phone them to book the hsg and u/s but i just did and they haven't had her request through yet. She said phone again tomorrow but i think i'll do it later today as the consusltant promised to do it asap.

Feel exhausted now!

Hello!

A little bit more time to catch up with you all today

Keep, Scarlett & Little good luck with your respective appointments and scans! Brooking for you all!

Cartoon lovely to see you are feeling more positive about things

Waves to Bartlet and thanks for the brooking.

Thanks for the shoulder too Maybe

I feel really awful today, I couldn't sleep for worrying about turning 40 and still not pregnant and mine and DH's younger siblings all trying for their third kids. Still no AF here and it's CD33, just a little spotting on wiping this morning but I did a test and BFN. I know AF will eventually turn up just wish she would hurry up and get here so I can properly move onto the next cycle! I was wondering if the acupuncture has made my af late?? The longest it's ever been is 35 days and that's only happened twice in the last 2 years.

Gen, Imps DH and I read an article a couple of months ago about raising the age limit to 42 for IVF but it wasn't clear if/when that would get implemented but I fear we may miss that boat too. I feel a little annoyed with our gynae clinic who have cancelled our appointments a few times over the last year and can't help but think that perhaps they could have put our application in a lot sooner so we wouldn't have missed out! The letter from the hospital has said we can write to our pct via our GP so we may well do that, so Gen that NICE document you linked will be useful. In the meantime we may start the ball rolling to be seen privately. Imps thanks for reminding me of the donor eggs option, that's something else we can discuss too.

Hope everyone else is well x

ta imps - I think it was saying 'hello' that whims little man's caused offence with whilst mingling, although discussing snot of any kind probably wouldn't help...

Oooooh Scarlett didn't realise you had an appt today - please let us know how it goes.

Oops Maybe!!! Maybe Whims toddler was asking those sorts of questions which is why his mingling caused so much offence

keep good luck for your appt - I'm at 2pm, I've got my list of questions ready! Hopefully this one will be more positive than the last one and I manage not to blub everywhere

Hmm, I would say possibly Imps Though I would not bring this up when mingling

Good luck today Keep what time are you up? I am keeping everything crossed.

Sparks maybe you are coming down with something? Or the stress with your Nana?

Bartlet I too was a little when she said about massaging my pituitary. Given I am a neuroscientist I was a tad worried!! But it was basically a massage of all my facial bones and palate to 'open it up'. It was a weird sensation, for an hour after, I felt like my head was twice as big as it should be.

Oh and Little and Bartlet you are far from bad mothers. Tea, toast, bed and CBeebies for all me thinks

How are you doing Gen?

Keep good luck for today. What time is your appt?

Sparks sometimes those pesky temps will just not do as they're told. Link to your chart?

Can I ask mingling question? If you have pant snot which is stretchy like EWCM but cloudy/slightly yellow rather than transparent, is that fertile CM or not?

I officially hate temping!!! My temps make no sense this month they're all over the place!! Will continue trying to dtd eod though just in case but surely if I've OV'd it would've happened by now given that my peak was on Friday

Love him, even.

Just read nice guidelines in prep for tomorrow's appt. Oh god there are so many potential things wrong...

little is this your first scan? Good luck!

solars am so sorry about the ivf thing, but am sure you will come up with a plan b, hopefully a bfp in a day or two like smegs

face good on you being proactive. I hope all is well, or something v small that is easily fixed. That is pricey, though.

imps my dh is a result of lord Winston! My mil saw him 30 years ago when they were having probs, he's not sure what Lord W actually did, but I gotta live him!

Ooooh Little good luck I'll be brooking for you all day long!

btw bartlet, just read your response on the CBFM thread about RM not sending to burnt out houses and nearly wet myself laughing. I wished there was a like button!

bartlet I am also being a shocking mum at the moment. DD is watching far too much tv, but I just have no energy for anything.

Scan is 5.30 tomorrow so don't expect an update early brookers. But fx pleased [ smile]. Love to all xx

Oh I don't mean to suggest that you are mid 50s Solars, I was just trying to put in context the arbitrary cut off point for treatment