Excellent Egg Buddies continued! Anyone having IVF/ICSI in Jan, Feb and March 2013 please join us!

Good luck choco and congratulations dildals.

Just popping in to say its still bfn at 10dp5dt. Breasts pretty normal. Not holding out much hope for OTD tomorrow.

Hi Argh welcome! I'm here, but live in Thailand at the moment, so post at random times... Don't fret, we'll get you through. One step at a time is my motto (along with 'it only takes one' and 'hope for the best, prepare for the worst'). My next step is scan tomorrow - I started stimming on Tuesday - so I'm just concentrating on that or it's too overwhelming.

euro, oh god, I am so sorry. What a horrible situation, and now you have to wait a week. We are all praying to everything that Barry is just on the small side. I'm thinking of you and your dh.

choco well done on the egg. iOTO. This first phone call must be awful to wait for!

dildals twins!!! Omg congratulations!!

shazzamatazza I do know what you mean about the whole squirting thing. I expected it to be much more dramatic than it actually is. It's quite a small squirt of liquid and you do 't imagine something so innocuous can wreak so much chaos and destruction.....but it soooooooo can ! Keep doing what you're doing. I found it all a bit of an anti-climax the first few times but once the symptoms kick in, you'll realise that it's working ! I promise. I'm on it for 14 days but I guess I'll have to wait until tomorrow to see if they want to keep me on it for a bit longer. As to whether or not 19 days is normal, the only rules here, as Sir Bradley Pitt said in Fight Club, are that there are no rules. Guys seem to know what they're doing so just go with what they say. If you're unsure, do ask them why. That's what they're there for and never feel like you're bothering them or asking a silly question.

I checked with the consultant about the pen and he said it's fine to take it out of the fridge along to the appointment at 4pm. I'm going to pop it into my Pimms cool box (I know, I'm so achingly hip and trendy ). I'll, um, leave the fishy ice block if you don't mind !

Speak in the morning Hun.

Nite nite.

Noks x

Honty glad you arrived safe and sound. Enjoy the champers and good luck if you decide to test. Happy birthday to mr h! X

Hello everyone

Noks, I asked about the refrigeration thing cause Guys told me to take the gonal f pen as well to my next appt on the 18th. She said to put it in the fancy purple bag that the drugs came in with an ice block if you have one. If not, maybe anything frozen....fish?! That would be hilarious if you got out a nice piece of cod before your pen!! Mind you then your fancy drugs bag would smell of fish which is not a good look.

I know this sounds abit ridiculous cause how could I possibly cock up something so simple but I think I'm doing the spray wrong. I'm full of resolve to give it a really forceful squirt then it takes me by surprise and only a little bit comes out. And sort of 2 squirts went in one side. A plus is that my nose definitely feels odd and abit burning so something is going in. How long did you all DR for? I've got 19 days is that normal?

Argh - don't worry you will catch up. I lurked around for ages until I caught up. Mainly cause I'm a few weeks behind everyone else and I didn't know what they were talking about. But today I imagined not having found this thread and doing this completely on my own. Luckily I didn't dwell on that thought for long. I'm really happy to be in this wolf pack as Noks would say

Oops long post. Why use 5 words when 50 will do!

Hello everyone else. Hope you are all ok.

Shaz xx

hont hello ! Hope NYC is treating you well. Enjoy that glass of fizz and if you do decide to test, best of British ! Xx

Evening

Feck I'm bored. Mr Noks is at work and even the cat has buggered off upstairs, so I'm drinking my 15th glass of squash and trawling through the Sky+ box for stuff to watch. Pfff.

Anyway.....

euro try to keep the faith. You've come this far so until they tell you it's over, it's most definitely not. xx

dildals woweee. Lovely news. Well done ! Am so pleased for you and Mr D. Rest-up and take care if yourself and the little ones. Xx

choco all it takes is one ! Will be thinking of you tomorrow morning and am sending your little one all the baby dust I can find. Let us know how you get on. Xx

shazza how are you feeling after sniff number 2 ? All ok ? Hope so. Xx

North, fairy, arghh, valinn and all the rest of the cool cats on the thread HELLO !

I have my scan at 4pm tomorrow to see if I'm ready to go onto stimms. I have been told to take my Gonal f pen with me but am a bit confused as it's supposed to be refrigerated. Can anyone shed any light on this for me ?

Noks x

A huge NY wave to you all.....it's been fab so far, going out for dinner in a couple of hours and want to get a bit of kip before, but also wanted to catch up on events of today

I'm going to be brief so apologies for not name checking everyone

euro hang in there....I'd dont hear the fat lady singing
dildals amazing amazing news...huge congrats
choco it only takes one! Fingers crossed you get fertilisation
north tomorrow is OTD right? I will be thinking of you and checking in when I can

I'm struggling with timings for my drugs....today I have kept to UK times but will have to switch to NY times for tomorrow otherwise will be getting up at 2am for bum bullet insertion! Is that right? It just feels odd that its only 5.30 here and I won't be taking anything now until I get up tomorrow around 9.....I hope that's right. If anyone has any advice please let me know.

Going to have a glass of bubble tonight...have managed to stay away from the pee sticks...am going to buy some here to bring home for OTD though. I'm tempted to test on Saturday DHs birthday... 4 days before OTD...what do you think?

Will be off to distract myself further tomorrow and bag some bargains at Century 21

Xxx

Good luck chocoloco....we have to do ICSI too. Congrats Dildals...fantastic... :) Am sorry but I am a little lost here...did you do IVF or ICSI?

Oh dear...am completely lost...I cant even find myself on this thread it is moving so fast...haha :)

Wow Dildals fantastic news

Fingers crossed choco!

What clinic are you at choco? Sorry if I've missed it.

Ok!

Thanks euro Ec ok, made easier by the lovely, lovely nurses at our clinic. Keep your chin up, hope you're o

Sending your embie fertilising vibes choco. How did you find EC?

Thanks so much Shazza, and glad the sniffing is going ok. It's ICSI. The things we put ourselves through!

Choco! I've been thinking of you today. Sending you loads of positive thoughts. Are you having ICSI or are the swimmers going for it as we speak? Oh I REALLY hope they are Olympic athletes . Fingers, toes, eyes everything crossed for you. X

Hang on in there euro

Good news dildals

Had egg collection today and they got 1 egg. Now have the hideous wait to find out whether it fertilises. Any positive thoughts and crossed body parts very welcome.

Sorry for no other mentions, just got to get through to 8 tomorrow morning.

This thread twists and turns like a twisty turny thing.

fab new dildals huge congrats!

Oh wow dildals twins! How exciting. AND you have pictures. I'm really thrilled for you. Congratulations. Xx

Dildals twins! Blimey. I'm so glad it was good news. x

Hi euro, sorry to hear that, I have been there before, it's not a nice place to be. I just went home today after the scan, I couldn't face sitting at work, whichever way the dice were going to fall.

I do have some good news to share though. This place is like a soap, joy and grief are so close together. I had my scan today at 7+5 and we saw 2 little heartbeats fluttering. We are still in shock. We had discussed the possibility of twins, DH always wanted more than 1 child, I wasn't going to get any younger, and you get only one shot on the NHS (whatever NICE says). In the end we decided to take the advice from the clinic. They advised to place back 2. One grade 1 and one grade 3BB. Now I haven't researched this but I don't think that's particularly good grades (which will save us fees on public school then) but they seem to have done alright. The nurse said they both looked good and were in a good place. One is a bit smaller than the other and both of them show smaller than 7+5, but at that size I reckon we should cut them some slack. Oh and I have pictures too! :-)

I had myself totally convinced it wasn't going to be twins, because I haven't been that nauseous at all, no vomiting, nothing. My GP previously had said 'you'll know about it when it's twins ....'.

Still acutely aware of all the things that can go wrong but it is a major hurdle successfully scaled, next up 12 week scan. On the phone to my GP as we speak!

hope for the best, prepare for the worst

I heard this on the TV the other day and decided it was going to be my motto for this bout of IVF...

Oh God, euro. Nothing we can donon these situations but wait, hope for the best and prepare for the worst. I wish I knew what to say.