Candle smugglers of the world unite! The Berries have loaded up the charabanc and have Barry on repeat. Destination BFP (via the pouch of Douglas)

Tiger it really is too early to test, you won't be convinced by the result whatever it is and it will just give your mind even more to churn over. Friday seems like an age away, but once you are back at work you will have something to distract you and that will help make the time fly by. And Beaky is right, going back to work after two weeks off is never nice.

Spare that consultant sounds ace and it's fantastic that you have a plan for maximising your goes with the frosties you have. I really hope you are feeling a bit better after all the recent upset, and go easy on yourself. Was it Tiger who said she hadn't made a fuss which meant her DH hadn't appreciated how hard it had actually been? There's no harm in reminding those around you that you are making things look easy purely because you are so amazing.

I had an interesting conversation with our consultant last week. He confirmed the hysteroscopy and D&C (will be on Tuesday) and then medicated FET next month including steroids and intralipids. He wants to defrost all ten embies and then transfer two day five embies. NB. Beaky that is a DET. He said based on my age DET was justified.

He also said that I'll be taking Clexane to counteract any risk of clotting and that if I wanted to I could take baby aspirin too for the same reason. This is the same doctor who was very firm about not taking aspirin during stimms. Although I'm not too keen on the aspirin idea as I took it one month and it gave me headaches.

Beaky I'm sure AF will turn up today or tomorrow, she's just -a cow- teasing you. But white jeans can only help you. I stayed up until one on electin night and baked a cake, then went to bed and got up again at three. I timed it quite nicely for all the exciting bits, but was exhausted afterwards.

Waves to Pip - what have you been up to?

Berries, I'm getting a bit worried as AF hasn't arrived yet and my baseline scan is Tuesday. If she doesn't turn up tomorrow it'll be too early and they literally plan your IVF cycle to the day arghhhh!

rain only the two nursery crime books as far as I can see. He's got a new book out in January which looks unrelated to any of the others. I was hoping he would write a sequel to Shades of Grey.
Any news on the arrival of rainy cat 2?

HB I bought mine in waterstones when I was still on paperbacks, but they're all on Amazon (I just use kindle now).
Great news on 5 fertilising, fingers crossed for tomorrow. Are they aiming for a day 5 transfer? Are you putting in one or two?

beaky I keep wanting a second dog, then ours does something to remind us that one is enough!

tiger step away from the piss sticks, it's too early . Are you going to have to pimp without Mr T or are you waiting until Friday? I think the scariest bit about potentially doing the fet on my own this summer while DH is away for a month is facing the result on my own.

Right, must get this dog walked so I can get out on my bike later .

Tiger I have no idea how early is too early to test after a 5dt, but hold out if you can - either way you'll have a more conclusive result later in the week and I am crossing everything I've got for a bffp. You're bound to feel a bit glum going back to work after 2 weeks, have you got anything nice planned today?

Have skim read the thread and just checking in.

Pipbin 40 now forever child free and best in show.

Well done hb and hope those 5 are developing well and you're recovering nicely from egg collection.

rain don't work too hard! Hope rainycat will be with you soon!

I feel glum. Need to snap out of it. Back to work tomorrow, meaning I'm away until Thurs, and feeling very tempted to poas even though it's only 6dp5dt.

HB 5 is great! Barry was clearly doing his stuff pompoms galore for that call on Monday. are you on cyclogest alone or anything else?

Wild were you up right through? I couldn't stay up too late in the end I was still wrecked at work on Friday!

Rain is rainycat 2 arriving tomorrow then? She looks super cute in the pic! I'm trying to persude MrB to get beakypup 2

That's good HB. You are getting there step by step.

Rain - when will Rain-cat be arriving? Assuming that you have passed the home inspection! She looks gorgeous in the photo and has a very fine set of whiskers.

I'm shattered, still not recovered from hardly any sleep on election night. Will do a proper post soon.

Hope the check went well Rain and that rainy cat is on her way to you soon.

Only read one jasper fforde book but can't find anymore anywhere, where are you finding them?

Had the call from the clinic, of the nine, five fertilised normally. The rest were all abnormal. So next call on Monday when we will find out when we will have transfer.

HB hope you're feeling ok today, great egg haul - any updates as yet?

nolly, barking I also loved those nursery crimes books! Is he still writing them?

spare your new doc sounds great, glad you had such a good meeting

tiger hope you're keeping well. You know where we all are when you need distraction from early pimping.

Woke up with a weird itchy rash today. I think it's stress, spending most of this weeken working . On the plus side our rspca home check is this afternoon so hopefully rainycat will be here tomorrow

Sorry for lack of detailed catch ups, have to get back to the grindstone...

Oooh nine's good HB. Get yourself a well earned glass of vino.

HB what a good stash but sorry you had a rubbish time of it. Hope you are feeling better today.

nolly another Jasper Fforde fan here, love the first nursery rhyme book! I read a few of the Tuesday Next series but they were getting a bit sameish by book 4. I enjoyed shades of grey as well (the Jasper Fforde book...)

HB Sorry you had a rough time, fingers crossed it will all be worth it.

Spare sounds like a positive meeting. And it's all go again so soon!

that's great hb! congratulations and hope you're having a relaxing evening
yes did feel nice to be wanted beaky [sobs] onwards and upwards x

HB - glad you are home and got a decent stash of eggs. Get your feet up and relax now.

Hi berries, finally home after another rough time. On the up side we got 9 eggs in total so similar to our first cycle this time last year so am happy.

Will catch up later but hope everyone else is ok

Spare what a lovely consultant, and it all sounds very promising. Can I ask did she give you any stats for set v det? obsessed how are you feeling now?

HB any news? Hope you're ok.

Nolly great that you were offered the job anyway! A little confidence boost if nothing else.

Tiger you seem to be doing really well, pompoming away for you over here! I'd try and hold out too as if I ever test I always thing what ifs. Are you back to work next week?

Off out for a few drinks tonight with some friends woohoo! Thank god Work is done for the week!

Happy weekend berries!

Cross post spare - that's great news. Sounds like a really positive appointment and not long to wait. Arm squeeze from me too, hope this time is the one!

Hang in there tiger
The waiting is just grim, isn't it. But we are pom pomming for you all the way
nolly I'm clearly suffering from sleep deprivation after sitting up til 3am to watch the election results, but 'ladybros' is making me laugh out loud. Can that be in the next thread title please..?

Good luck hb, hope you've got on ok and had a good haul.

nolly I think you need to test the job market sometimes and feeling like you have options (even if you turn them down) can help keep you sane. Will have to try Justin Fforde, need some daft reading material.

Not sure what's happening with the tiger cubs. Not optimistic or pessimistic just trying to take each day at a time. Not really experiencing any symptoms of note but then I'm only 4dp5dt so it's early days. Was going to test early (Sunday) before i go back to work, but I think I'll try and hold out until OTD on the 15th, although I think I'll find that very hard.

Thanks for all the cheering on berries. I think the next week is going to be tough.

Good luck HB!

I've seen the FC today. Different doc to the last cycle, but she was really nice and had read through my entire history before I came in, and then asked to read the reports from the baby we lost, and gave me an arm squeeze after she'd read it.
I asked her if we could just defrost 2 of the 4 frosties, so we'd have 2 more chances and she said that should be fine, and she will recommend to the embryologist that they defrost one to start with, see how it goes for the first day and then only defrost the 2nd if it isn't developing properly. So tick for that.
I asked her about putting 2 back and she said she would advise against it. She doesn't think it would increase my chances of getting pregnant, just my chances of getting pregnant with twins, which is fair enough.
So back for another dildocam on Weds and assuming everything is developing at the same sort of rate as during the other FET cycles (and she pulled up all 3 graphs, and they were more or less identical in terms of lining thickness and follie size) then we'll be doing a transfer next weekend or Monday 18th. Yikes!

Hmm meant to have ready "really hoping this is your time", HB

Ladybros

Good luck for today HB. Reall

Thanks for all the support berries. I did indeed get myself in a massive load of wine and books - ta for recommendations tiger, yes it was me into Cazalets. Have you read any Jasper Fforde? Bit daft but good for people who read a lot. Mr Nol has disappeared (yes africa wild), but the good news is my swarthy army should be installing my shower tomorrow - at freaking last. Doing OK at the moment but I suspect it'll be crash and burn when May's AF turns up.

Kuma they're bloody everywhere, pg women. I hate those baby on board badges - sometimes there's no bump or anything and you just think - really? already?

How are the tigercubs? New forest is v nice, very good idea. All of our holidays make me feel about 60 - mainly because that's the average age wherever we go, for some reason.

Happy I missed your FET, hope it all went well. Pom Pom etc! Thank goodness haplet survived the thaw.

I'm not surprised you went nuts, spare. Mr Nol makes similar comments sometimes - and cold comfort can stab you right in the heart at bad moments. You've had a horrific year, and - speaking personally - I think it's so easy to think you're OK, functioning, etc - then something just pierces that silk-thin skin and it all comes out again.

gil how are you feeling - symptoms yet? How's the stress? I wasn't pg for very long but it was an unbelievable stressful experience while it lasted. You just have to think that every day massively raises your chance of holding your baby, and your feelings are totally normal.

Sorry about the surprise kids, barking. Owt wrong with preservation mode - doens't say anything about you other than you've had a shit time.

beaky are you going ahead next week then? So exciting. I did get the job, thanks for asking :) but I decided to turn it down as I knew I'd probably leave as soon as I could. So staying with me, my formal complaints and psycho boss for now. >50% turnover in my department now.

what a gorgeous cat rain. I am quite jelby. Are you fostering? I'm considering fostering a cat in the autumn (will sell to cat-phobic mr Nol as essential anti mice measure).

wild when's the day, do you know yet?

All this adoption chat is interesting. How is it possible that there is so much mis-information out there? (She says, in a country which has just elected Poached Buttock-face as PM for the second time)

waves to patch, lucieloos, Smidge (eurovision???? really??), bedhead, mminx and anyone else I've missed,....