Trying to conceive for 10 months or more. Thread 5. All ten plussers welcome.

Hi bean, glad you're still lurking. It's so difficult. I've always been in the camp of getting going ASAP as I find the waiting really hard. However off the back of this disappointing cycle I understand needing some time too. Not very helpful huh?

I HATE Lutigest. It's so leaky
Never thought I'd be wishing for cyclogest instead, but at least I could use the back door to prevent as much leaking.
I'm feeling a bit cramps... Two days after ET... Surely that can't be good? Could it be the progesterone?

Still lurking along. On holidays this week so no risk of real life baby bombs but still had 2 on stalker book. Oh well, off for ice cream.

We are still debating when to cycle again. Part of me never wants to again. Part wants to start asap. Need to take the pill for a month so earliest would be starting off August period. Kind of living in the vain hope of a miracle upduffing before then..

It's good to hear after EC, I'm certainly not going to put any pressure on it.

Come on follies, grow!!!

That sounds perfect Trixie, I'd love a little break right now.
Phew on the baby shower date, having to do that after getting bfn would be awful...or bfp and having to keep quiet!

Itsme - just play it by ear, if you feel up to it then go, but if not then you can just say you're ill. Xx

I'm very bloody minded. I went back to work the day after my laproscopy...

I am trying to save the relax don't do anything for after egg transfer (fx we get there)

We went to Scotland to visit my in laws Sammy we were by the sea and it was lovely and relaxing glad you're taking it easy. Lovely pics! Have everything crossed for you, I know how hard it is xx

All sounding very good Itsme. Very frustrating re the timing though. I was in a lot of pain after my first EC and could barely make it up the stairs so no way would I have made a wedding. I was ok this time though. Hopefully you are ok.

Sorry about the baby bomb MrsRen, they suck!

Turns out the baby shower I am planning will be before we've even had transfer in our FET which is good (based on her due date I thought it could be around the finding out time)

Everything crossed for you itsme!

Next scan Thursday morning at 8am then they'll let me know if I should do trigger that evening.

I got properly emotional when I saw them all on screen. They might just be the start of our family!!

Lovely littel Embys.

Hugs MrsRen. It is hard but we will get through this.

I think it can itsme, but 12mm sounds perfect! Just need to grow those follies a bit more and you'll be off. When's your next scan? It is only a light sedative, so wears off quickly. But I was pretty uncomfortable once the painkiller wore off too, and paracetamol wasn't as good.
It is so annoying that as well as going through all this we have to potentially miss out on stuff too :(.

i didn't realise they give you the pictures, beautiful little embryos! I have everything crossed for you.

Its funny isn't it, as soon as I got 12mm I started googling 'can a lining be too thick?' Which apparently it can.

Yes I don't know how I'll feel after sedation. Egg collection is in Nottingham and wedding in Oxford so if all works out I should be able to have a little snooze in the car.

I hate diary timings and dates, grr!

Wow itsme!! I have no experience of how you would feel have EC but I would take it easy and see how you feel on the day - will it be in the morning?

Mrsren it's really tough, they all hit me hard now - i got baby bombed yesterday too by someone who hasn't even been back from maternity that long. Luckily I overheard rather than being told face to face so didn't have to do my fake smile and congrats.

Itsme - that sounds great. Am very jealous of your 12mm!
Re the wedding - I wouldn't have wanted to be anywhere except my sofa (remember you will have been sedated), but as long as you just stay sitting down in sure it won't do any harm. I think it'll depend on what time your EC is and what time the wedding starts.

Mrsren - that's so unfair first thing in the morning :(.

Thanks for all the congratulations, I'm trying very hard to be positive. It's hard with failed cycles behind you.
Have Accupuncture today at 11.15 so have to drive myself to that, but otherwise I'm not doing a lot other than resting.

Here are my two embryos:

Great news Sammy! Fingers crossed :-)

I've been baby bombed this morning before I've even had my non caffeinated hot drink...

Some days I can take it on the chin, but apparently not today :-(

Eek! Seven 14s, five 13s and one little 10. Lining is at 12mm. He reckons we will bring forward trigger to Thursday night and egg collection on Saturday. Thing is, it's my friends wedding on Saturday. Would I be mad saying that I could attend both, should the timings work? I'm not exactly going to be jumping around doing the conga, but I want to be there at least!!

Congrats sammy and to mr sammy for a fab result! What a turnaround! Fingers crossed for the next 2 weeks!

Yay congrats Sammy! So exciting! Have a restful couple of weeks, I'll be keeping everything crossed for you x

Thanks Stealth!

Trixie - where did you go? Hope you had a lovely time!

Gratz sammy. PUPO! Keeping everything crossed for you x

Thank you everyone. I'm now PUPO with 2 onboard. 1 was 8 cell and 1 7 cell. You can see DH sperm in the picture trying to get in. So there's some alive still 3 and a bit days after the sample was given.

His morphology was 7%. 7%! That's up from 2% in our lowest result. The only thing that's different is that he's gone on to decaf coffee. So was previously having 3 / 4 cups per day of caffeine loaded, but cut out completely now. It doesn't answer why our fertilisation rate was so low (dodgy eggs?) but that'll be a question for the follow up if we need one.

Chilling on the sofa now :). Xx

Fantastic news Sammy. Everything corssed for you here (except my legs as I am heading back into my fertile window ).

Went away for the weekend with DH and missed loads. What a rollercoaster Sammy! Hope transfer went well and you feel better.

Fab news sammy will be thinking of you this afternoon!

Sammy - that's great news on your little embies.

Sorry to hear that you sufferend with the Metronidozol - I had to take that drug on and off for a year when fighting a tropical disease. The drug felt worse than the disease - grim.