We are jolly well going to get and stay diffed this month and we are BROOKING NO ARGUMENT.

Yeah I got a bit excited earlier thinking ohhh the preg test will be BFP due to opk then it was nothing sometimes when I look at them I swear there's another line but I think it just my imagination started binning them due to excessive line looking missions lol- here is the opk from 4pm x

Um belle did you know opks detect hcg...? I think it unlikely you'd have shadowy lines. In my extensive experience of bfns there aren't lines there.....

Yeah 2 days late :-( just wish I knew what was going on in there x

Hi all sorry ive not been on much im loving catching up on all the chat - still no AF just really tiny amount of brown spotting when I wipe - soz tmi - all tests negative or silly shadowy lines - just did an opk and was really dark so I'll have to be tonight abs just put it down to a wtf cycle lol

loopy well done on the well timed DTD, and also on the weightloss! - Btw going from an 18 to a 12 is doable, I did just that to get my BMI down for IVF. The added bonus is I now have 5 sizes of clothes to work my way through before I have to hit the maternity shops :)

Oh your poor friend, my heart really goes out to her. When you're at that crossroads there's nothing feels so bleak as feeling pushed into making that choice. Of course I'd be very happy to exchange messages, one of the reasons we chose Alicante was because they have a lot of caucasian donors and the Spanish regulations require the clinics to provide as close a match as possible. There's also a magical process where, during the gestation, the mother's body actually switches on and off genes within the baby's makeup - Sweetie was the one who told me about that, and I saw a picture of her lo's next to a picture of her as a baby, and the similarities were incredible. I'll do some digging and find the proper scientific explanation of it. But basically it means that, were it possible, if the same embryo were given to three different mothers, the three resulting babies would look very different because of the different genes that are switched on and off.

Geek I have a favour to ask. Someone I know from a RMC thread is having a rough time. I think she is 44 and has been seeing Shehata, and has been on his super ovulation plan for 4 months, which involves letrozole and prednisolone and progesterone, possibly other stuff. She hasn't had a BFP so far on this plan. She went to an open morning at Bourn Hall and they basically told her that Shehata is wrong to waste her time and she has no chance unless she does IVF with a donor egg. She had a meeting this week with Shehata as was due for follicle scans for her next cycle and will ovulate this weekend. He said that she should try 2 more cycles on this plan, but then said that her chances are low. He also said that her chances of IVF working with her own eggs is about 5%. He said her chances of it working with donor eggs would be 40%. She is struggling with the idea of having a baby that she wouldn't be the biological mother to. And as well as coming to terms with it not being her DNS they are saying they get their donor eggs from a clinic in Alicante so it would be introducing an unknown Spanish genepool. She has one child who is 3, and I guess she wants them to look like they are siblings. Would you be willing to exchange messages re the subject? I think it would really help her to speak to someone else who is using the donor route. I also think that if it could be a donor egg that is from the UK she might deal with it better. But apparently Bourn Hall and the Lister re Shehata both get their eggs from Alicante, so no idea if this means UK eggs aren't an option? I remember sweetie having her twins and just because she carried them and gave birth they were her babies no question and i suspect if she had a baby that came out very Spanish looking she would love it inconditionally as her own as hormones are very powerful to us after having a baby! It's just not a journey she ever thought she would be on and I think she is in shock still and needs to talk to someone who has been there and got a BFP at the end of it.

So pleased that everyone is having just good news at the moment!

I knew nothing of Maybe knitting? Have I been under a rock at the wrong time?

So, ewcm appeared yesterday and DH failed to DTD 3 times last night, but he had success tonight at his first attempt thank god so we are in with a chance, just hope I hurry up and ovulate now!

Pasta I wouldn't want to tempt fate at all, given that I'm still ttc but I might fit an 18 as I've lost a fair bit of weight now. Although having one of those moments where I feel like I'm more likely to drop back to a size 12 than I am to have a third baby. Wish I had a crystal ball to see how this story is going to end.

Do we have any Brookers that are a size 18 on here? I have a maternity/nursing top that was too small for me so never worn and it needs a good home

Hi hinky Q looks very cute, though perhaps not entirely sure about you taking his photo! Lovely of you to drop in.

I Think the bfps and Babies were so spread out in 2015 that it felt like there weren't very many, but I'm glad you've all reminded us that we did have success in 2015. And rather Lovely successes they were too!

Have been lurking a bit during late night feeds and keep meaning to pop on to say how great it was to read of some long serving brookers getting their bfps.

Q is a 2015 vintage and is a whopping 5 months old now.

HI!

Hehehe dick pond!
Sorry yes I ment which clinic imps I couldn't remember.
Mr T is brilliant isn't he! He has to do something since his bit is over now

Countess would have got her BFP last year too as I think she is close to her due date now ;)

OK OK it seems we have done 2015 a disservice. Sorry 2015, it just seemed a bloody long time since we had a bfp

I've just searched out maybes things on Feb - wowee! I am def going to get one even though we have a million blankets already

Wow amazing blankets!!! I think there were 2 others born in November too (baby brain can't remember their names!) and pasta was 2015 too?

A dick pond?? How has it taken this long to get knocked up then ;) gosh those blankets are just beautiful, clever you!

I go lime and soda too

trix at dh doing your by bullets! Brooking for your tiny one

Next summer you can take Prince Barry-Baxter to feed the dicks :o .o