The Berries: On knockerwatch, sniffing willies and clinging to the coat tails of the continued clusterdiff (thread 21)

Happy wedding day feather! I hope you and MrF have the most amazing time!

Great article beaky thanks for sharing. It does sum up the pain of it all pretty well. I'm hoping some of my friends read it. I have looked but I can't find any reference to 3 years in the ccg policy on IVF but they have a new policy out for consultation that says 2 years. The difficulty is, because of my line of work, I know the people responsible for the policy so it makes it very awkward to ask questions! Am doing some less obvious digging to see when the new one will kick in.

barking they're on my list to make too. Hopefully the 2 weeks until your scan will fly by.

Thunder and lightening here...regretting booking in for 9am yoga class!

Yes, I saw graham norton ( lurve him, think he us fab on the radio, big grill graham fan!!). I said same to dh, her face looks really odd, too taut. I actually thought she was quite witty etc but bit of an attention seeker in that dress and doing the head stand. It put me off how she kept adjusting herself on the sofa for her best angle ( now I sound bitchy!!) thought Martin sheen's intro was brilliant.

Welcome to my world batking re not knowing re heartbeat on scan.

hb the blanket is beautiful. How did you do that? Did it come as a kit? It is needlework/cross stitch? And the cake is amazing. Is that a pg lady sat on the cake and little footprints on the white icing? I take it the pink and blue booties are because your friend hasn't found out? You are a really lovely and very talented friend. You could sell those they're that good!!

beaky what a cheeky cow at your work!!! Some people!!

rp it may just be regular cramps and twinges! have had a few of those but prob not a bad idea to slow down a bit eh. Did you tell in laws?

feather's getting married in the morning! ding dong the bells are going to chime!! Can we have a wedding emoticon and baby icon??!!

Don't know if this is a bit naughty but had a cider shandy tonight, we'd gone out for friend's birthday meal in pub and really fancied a big drink. Sun was out. Had big ass meal to soak it up inc pudding- yum yum!!

Thanks Merk. I think it is okay, they were just quite vicious and within an hour of exercise so I started to think, shit, I've somehow shaken the dinosaur loose :( I think I'm going to avoid aerobics for a bit as that was scary.

HB those are really, really beautiful and you are a very good friend. You will be making a blankie like that for your own soon :)

Barking, win, bushy, hope you are all feeling sticky tonight! (Which my iPad wanted to correct to "STI" )

Did anyone see this article today?

Article

So sad and some of the comments made me furious.

OMG longest post ever

Woohoo it's Friday berries! I've missed so much this week, been hectic at work, stressy and not sleeping at home but now have a glass of wine and some peace and quiet to catch up!

Here goes! HB you are truly an amazing person, what a lovely blanket and cake. I really hope you get a MiniHB really soon, you totally deserve it. Shame you couldn't really get an answer at your appointment but I suppose sometimes they don't have an answer. Do you think you will go for a fresh cycle?

Batking I'm over the moon that things seem to be going well for you at the moment, especially after all the awfulness you had to go through. I am keeping everything crossed for you. How are you feeling now?

Feather have an amazing wedding day tomorrow! I'm gonna put you flipping out over the size of peonies down to your preggo hormones! I hope you and Mr Feather have the best time! Where are you honeymooning? How are you feeling too, any symptoms? Will be crossing everything before your scan next week too.

Nolly sorry you had a rough time this week, it is just shit sometimes hey. Hugs and anyway.

Tiger I will keep my fingers crossed that you get the right outcome job wise - whatever that maybe sounds like a difficult decision is coming your way. Good luck for the lap on Monday too! Hope you get diffed immediately afterwards did you check the guidelines for your pct re how long you have to be trying for? 3yrs seems ridiculous.

Funky what's a berry HQ Friday night party?! Sounds brill!

Bushy how's things going for you? I will be crossing everything for your scan next week and hope everything is great. That parent is sooo cheeky. I had a client who asked me if I was (during the early days ttc) and I said no, she said "well you need to get yourself on a diet pet" she was canny and old though.

Serenity welcome! Sorry you are here though but these ladies are amazing. Can I ask if you had any symptoms with your ovarian cyst? I had one last scan but they think it was maybe a follicle. I do have typical symptoms of a cyst though so am stressing and dr googling like mad. I hope your IVF works for you first round. Are you long or short protocol? Sorry if you've already said this I've missed 5 pages this week! Also what course are you doing?

Boodle how are you doing?

Win great news about your scan, I am crossing everything for you as well, hope that this is the sticky one.

RP how's your dinosaur?! Love the way you told your dh! I don't want you to leave the thread you always make me smile. Please post here and the chopter

Happy hope you got sorted with your hairpiece. Things like that don't help with stress levels!

Rain I hope that today has been manageable, sending you hugs and

Rosie you don't need a wang, it's totally understandable. Maybe poas Sunday? 12 dpo by then?! I have to make a massive effort to distract myself but it doesn't always work! It will all work out in the end and your own wise advice back at you, is that this will pass

Batking try holland and Barratt, you can def get millet flakes there, not sure about wanky/swanky salt though!

I went to GP today, about excessive bleeding and I've not been sleeping and getting really itchy which I get when I'm stressed so got some cream for that me poor little armpit! she didn't really have much to say about the bleeding. Anyway none so far this week thank god. Watching bad Santa weird and going to do some holiday shopping weirder

Sorry this post is sooooo long, I need to keep up more!

Good luck with your baby filled weekend hb. We are here if you need to vent.

Aw hb the cake and blanket are amazing! What a lovely friend you are. I hope the weekend of babies is ok.

Here is the blanket and cake.......

Have an amazing wedding day Feather I wish you and MrF all the love and happiness in the world.

Made it through a week of work; now for a weekend of babies. Hopefully I will be able to post pictures of the cake and blanket; will try when I've had some dinner!

RP cramps are normal, as things are settling in and stretching.

Hmm I went to aerobics tonight and now I am having quite bad cramping..... Bit scared :( DPIL coming over any minute and we had planned on telling them but now not sure I we should...... Argh.

Has anyone else who has been here before had cramps after exercise or exertion? Or does it mean something bad?

Oooh Feather have a really brilliant time tomorrow! You will look gorgeous and enjoy every minute!

Hey ladies!

rain Thinking of you today, hope you get through it OK.

feather i hope, you have an amazing day tomorrow and wish you a lifetime of health and happiness (and babies!)

winoh Glad you had good news with your scan!

serenity Re diet and IVF, I didn't really change mine much although I do eat pretty healthily anyway, mainly freshly prepared veggie food. I try and avoid white carbs too but don't get too hung up about it. I had the odd glass of wine after starting stimming. The thing I'm most reluctant to change is coffee as life just isn't as nice without it! I do try and limit myself to 1 or 2 a day. The way I see it, I've been trying for so long that if I went on some extreme diet I'd probably just make myself miserable and more stressed.

Himalayan pink salt barking? Surely any old salt will do? Or Maldon if you want somethung that's just a little bit swanky/wanky?

Sorry you're having a tough time rosie, not really sure what to suggest even though we've all been there. I think just try to remember that there are up days and down days: hopefully tomorow will be better.

My period turned up today after the EC pretty much like the dr predicted it would. Hopefully he'S right that nothing will happen over the next 3 weeks so we can put our frosties in after our holiday. It's a bank holiday weekend over here, we're visiting the inlaws and hoping to get lots of lovely hiking in. Really looking forward to spending some time in the fresh air with lovely DH and trying to forget about everything! Ooh and there's the lovely Raffa to watch in the final as well! Happy weekend everybody.

Yes Tiger I loved Batfink! "Your bullets cannot harm me, my wings are like a shield of steel....."
Barking (when I typed Barking the iPad threw up the suggestion of Batking!) I'm waiting on the Honestly Healthy book. I'm hoping it was the parcel that DP collected from the Post Office today

Hope you're ok rain

and welcome serenity! castle fan eh?

have a good weekend ladybros. and will be catching up properly next week…

Both?

Wanky or swanky?

The supermarkets here have pink salt everywhere. It's the new wanky ingredient

Evening everyone!
It's Friday night here and I'm sitting avoiding study, feeling sick with yet another lurgy listening to the pugs snore.

I got my info pack today and spent most of the day reading.
Did you change your dietary habits much?
Did anyone shift work while undergoing IVF?

And it seems everyone I know is pregnant. 12 people now have had or are due babies this year. Including my instadiffer 23 year old sister in law!

Rosie - a wang? my dirty minded Australianess is showing...