The Elderberry Pavlovas head into 2014 which will be full of ivf, berry babies and BFPs!!!  (thread 17)

Win this is sooooo exciting and like HB I'm totally impressed by how levelheaded you're being. Hoping the day comes very soon for you where you feel comfortable in your excitement and can trust that it's real! (FWIW I'm such a basketcase at this point that I doubt I'll feel anything is real til a baby exits my body!! )

AF here today, but v light, so am about to watch a TV show guaranteed to make me cry, and then get started cleaning - a very trying houseguest coming tomorrow for the day, so my weekend can only improve from there. The only thing keeping me from totally dissolving is that we are fully on track now to start our IVF cycle at the end of the month...no more debating, or researching, or diagnostic appointments, this shit is real and it kind of feels like it's happening to someone else. I'd imagine we've all felt that way at one time or another.

Jessica Bloody Ennis. That is all.

Yay Bunny will continue to keep everything crossed!

Good news Win am impressed on the cool head.

Managed to get test results so can go to my appointment with the hope of no unexpected bills

Cross post bunny! Congratulations on getting two fertilised! Fingers crossed theyre busy dividing as we speak/ type. Will you get both put back?

Eek! Fingers crossed for the call this morning bunny! I hope you have lots of fertilised eggs!

HB- hope you managed to pick up your results, and the appointment goes ok.

Barking, I know! I can't quite believe just how rubbish my GP actually was. I like to give people the benefit of the doubt, but really it's shocking! I think your chart looks good for ovulation (bearing in mind ive only charted one month so have little experience!!) Opk's didn't really work for me this cycle, they were all over the place. I got a dip before I ovulated which prompted a last minute ddt session.

Puppy, thanks for that, always reassuring to hear that it can work out!!

Thanks everyone for the tentative congrats. I'm still finding it hard to process whats happened. I keep doing hpt's and the line is getting darker which is a bit reassuring, but only for a minute! We could go for another blood test today to see if the hcg is doubling but I don't think I will. I figure if it's good news it will only make me feel better for a day, and if it's bad, we'll find out soon enough. Do you think that's silly? I figure there's nothing they can do at this stage snyway.

Thanks for that lady. I've never ovulated later than cd22 so as I'd already had faint lines on opks which went back to snowy white without getting a + I'd given up pimping thinking it wasn't going to happen again, especially as if the clomid was going to make me ov I wouldn't have thought it would take that long!!! Well, if I did finally ovulate, maybe I will get AF as well!!

Maybe the acupuncture is doing something?!

Barking I ovulated on CD32/33 on my last cycle (first since chemical) so definitely possible, but I usually ovulate late-ish (around CD21).
This was my chart (the Nov 12th one)
chart

kitty, not seen it and not sure I want to!

Well, wtf is going on with my <a class="break-all" href="http://FertilityFriend.com/home/3c06f2/]FertilityFriend.com/home/3c06f2/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">chart ?!?! It's been up and down all over the place but there's been a steady increase for the last 5 days (which isn't normal in itself, I'd usually jump to above coverline, not creep up) and for the first time since the mc I've got a temp above coverline (apart from when I took the provera, but presumably that was the progesterone in the tablets making my temp rise). Is it possible that I ovulated on CD32 even though that's ridiculously late and my cycle started without a cycle iyswim?

(CD1 was rigged as AF for FF purposes. Even though it was just spotting-when-I-wiped I thought it was CD1 and took the clomid the next day, so reset my cycle to see if the clomid would give me a cycle anyway).
Isn't CD32 ridiculously late to Ov? Could it just be AF on the way?

Very confusing.

Ah forgot about puppy's FUFC!!! Since wino didn't make it to the fc it's more of a FUGP!!

barking have you ever seen 'Rosemary's baby'? The film is older than us but it still scares the crap out of me! I remember my dad telling me not to watch it when I was little so I got up after they went to bed and watched it (but wished I hadn't lol)

bunny I thought you were meant to be in pain feeling sorry for yourself after ec??? You're obviously made of string stuff

oh bunny fingers crossed for you, glad its gone well so far.

win we were told something similar, that I hav poor quality eggs and that we would prob need ivf to concieve and if we did we would hav a lower than normal chance of it working, because of the egg quality.
However I got pregnant naturally just before we started so they dont always know what will happen.
fingers crossed for you to!

Great news bunny! So pleased it went well. Hopefully a bunny bfp will be on the way soon.

Agree with barking, RP - poas!!

Had acupuncture last night. As suspected by a lot of you, my temps perplexed her. I have a new thermometer now so it's back to the drawing board. She thought my body was trying to ovulate or had ovulated the other day when I had spotting, so she stuck some pins in to see if she could help it all along. Who knows!

Good luck tomorrow hampshire - got everything crossed for you that it goes smoothly.

Hope everyone else is well! I'm exhausted! Spin class number 4 since Saturday was tonight. For the first time in my life I can see how people get addicted to exercise.

Win sorry I missed your news earlier. A tentative congratulations and here for support through the next 2 weeks

Woohoo win!!!!

Win ooooh!!

My goodness Bunny how exciting!! How are you feeling tonight? I'd be biting my nails like mad.

Barking I love that her giving birth to a devil makes it all okay - ahh, go on, be preggers, as long as it's Satan's I don't mind....

Erm so in my total lack of news AF just kinda hasn't arrived..... Just sort of spotting and then nothing. So not CD1 at all!

However to make up for that disappointment I had a £500 car bill today and got home to find water spreading THROUGH the wall from the rain. Good times.....

Evening All,

Has work been bad for anyone else?! I think that everyone is back in work and with a vengeance!

So DH had his SA today, and tomorrow we see the Consultant and Nurse at the clinic where we will have our IVF. The week I have had trying to get hold of test results etc. has been so maddening - it is bad enough that I have to pay for IVF but could do without the GP surgery giving me the runaround because I want a copy of the results of a test that I would have a letter about anyway. So having to leave it to the wire and should hopefully get it tomorrow on the way to the clinic.

A little apprehensive to be honest and not really sure what to expect - any advice would be appreciated. I have absolutely no idea what questions to ask and am really hoping that we remember to ask everything....

Wino I hope you can find things to do that makes the 2ww bearable and Bunny that you have much fertilization!

Yey bunny!! Are you feeling ok? Are you back home now?

wino it really is the worst 2ww isn't it? It does speed up after that though, I promise! When you're feeling up to it the copter is just here

Lovely news Win! Keeping everything crossed for you and Bunny

Everything crossed bunny. Do you get a call tomorrow to tell you how many have fertilised? Do you know when et will be?

Hi Bunny glad to hear all went ok. Keeping everything crossed

Ah, wino that's fabulous news. Tentative congrats and hoping all goes smoothly! Amazing things DO happen. xxx

good luck bunny! xx

amazing newswin just goes to show that GPs are not the experts. Fingers crossed this blossoms in to a wonderful happy ending xx