The Genuine BESH Palais. To misquote Carlsberg, we're probably the barrenest TTC-ers in the world...

Thank you ! Early days and all but I am truly touched by all the buzzwam activity. All of you have truly extraordinary baps.

Congrats Noks. That amazing news!

Holy crap, norks! I never thought I'd actually know one of those! Congratulations and all the luck in the world :)

Oh twirling tassles on my big PMT boobs.

Wow, massive congrats nokkie. That is such exciting news. Love the triple testing by medics and flickering heart beat. And yay that these things do happen.

Well done on surviving the cut and past manoevre euro. Keeping everything crossed for little scarring. Sorry about the return of fertility stress.

Waves to all of you.

Aww fanks girls. The spontaneous nipple dance made me LARF !

Now that i cannot have them.....I could murder a glass of wine and a fag right now. I do believe that is the law of the sod at work.

Massive congrats Norks!!!

Congratulations Norks wow, what a surprise!

Oh my goodness norks that's amazing! Congratulations x

good god Noks you are 'one of them' i.e. the friend of a friend of a friend who blah blah blah! They do exist! I just swirl my tassles so hard one flew off and hit MATV in the eye :) Congratumalations :) :) Fingers crossed for a massively boring and routine 9 months eh !

Oh my Nokkie that's fan-bloody-tastic news! I'm so happy for you!

Glad it went ok euro.

Delighted you're polyp- free hesty.

Evening all

So, I went to the hospital yesterday for the hysteroscopy. They were doing all of the usual pre-op faffing about and asking the same questions they asked at the pre-op assessment last week. Which lasted nearly TWO hours. Anyway, one of the pre-op faffs had me pee in a pot (my aim is now extraordinary) and one of their tests has.....and I cannot believe I am saying this.....revealed that I have managed to get myself updiffed. I made them do three tests because I just told them that it was not possible. They were all positive. I bought two of my own and they said the same. I couldn't fecking believe it.

I went for a scan today and I am 5+5. Saw a little flickering heartbeat and everything. It's early days and I know how precarious all this can be so am taking nothing for granted. After four and a half years of absolute hell and this ivf torture, it's the last thing I expected to happen. I also appreciate what everyone here is going through so don't want to go on about it.

However, I still feel as though I have been hit around the head with a large fish, so that catfish must have been doing the rounds euro.

An utterly stunned Norks. X

Well done Euro, chocolate very much deserved.

Hurrah indeed for being a polyp-free zone Hesty, roll on June!

Hope everyone else has had an equally good day, and if not has plenty of

Hurrah hest! That's great news. And thanks for the reassuring words to you and others.

I'm all done and have just rewarded myself with some chocolate. I was awake from 3.30 this morning fretting and I feel relieved to have it over. The cut is not quite as neat as I would like, but it is as small as I could have hoped and close to my hairline. I'll just have to wait and see how the scar turns out. The stitches come out in a week. Now that the local anaesthetic is wearing off, I feel rather like I have been hit round the head with a large catfish. Now which one of you hags was it, eh? BTW, being awake and chatting to someone who is digging around inside your forehead is an INCREDIBLY odd sensation.

Now there's nothing more I can do about that, I can go back to fretting about the fertility stuff. I think droid might be on the way pretty soon. So then it'll be time to call the clinic and book the first scan.

I feel quite resolutely atheist. If there is a god (which there isn't), he/she/it is intensely spiteful and unkind, and therefore not worthy of either my respect or my trust.

In other news, droid has arrived. This is obviously bad news, but it also means that the laparoscopy on the 29th can go ahead, which is good. Hormonal fluctuations had me leaking tears ths morning - not even real crying, just a sort of overflow, if you know what I mean Being female sucks balls, it would be so much easier if my own body wasn't screwing with my mind every five minutes.

Hope things go well today, euro. Scars are not as noticeable as you expect them to be, if that's any comfort? My gran had a mysterious growth thingy removed from her face when I was small - I couldn't tell you which side of her face it was on, it's so barely there.

Sorry about the mis peeps are feeling at the moment.

Euro I hope today is as stress free as possible for you.

Norks, how did yesterday go?

New BESH mantra: we've done nothing to deserve this

Cumbersnatch on GMTV in a minute laydees..

Good luck with the lumpectomy euro. Hoping its not as bad as anticipated.

good =god. There is no fucking good in any of this.

I do wish MN would add an edit post function...

Sorry to be away and then come back in a mememe phase. This is just really upsetting me.

Infertility, miscarriage and a head alien. I mean, what the fuck will be next? It's almost enough to make me believe there is a good, cos it's looking like I have pissed off someone important....

Eek, she must have felt awful! You really can't see it. I think most people I know have a childhood scar of some kind. There are just not many 37 year old women walking around with stitches in their faces. By the tim it has faded, I'll be a pensioner. :(

euro my mum left me unattended in a room with curling tongs on the floor as a toddler. She still feels guilty. Sometimes I wear foundation but as often as not, I can't be arsed. People don't remark on it, and I can't say I've noticed any staring.

frank you perv, you've made me laugh out loud. I'm very excited!

I have my Star Trek tickets for Saturday . On that note, he wasn't lying when he said the costumes were tight - check out the CumberBulge