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Morning all,

Have a spare few mins so thought I'd try and catch up properly.

Firstly I need to apologise to JB cos I really did mean to try and meet up with you in Manchester on this last visit. It was impossible though as was pretty much either working or sleeping the whole time (and in a pretty bad mood as the store I was sorting out had some 'issues'). Anyway, I'm intending on revisiting at Christmas so hopefully we can meet then! Hope you have a fab time away next week and that the sea has warmed up sufficiently for DD to dip her toes again!

How are you feeling Caitni? I bet those scan pictures are close to hand all the time! 23rd August does seem like a long time away so hopefully those weekends in Sweden and Ireland will help in passing the time. As an aside, how is your veg coming along?? I have cucumbers coming out my ears (not literally of course) at the moment - they just seem to keep growing! Luckily I love cucumber!

So lovely to hear from you DG and to hear how well DS is doing I am genuinely that he's going to be one next month - when did that happen?!!

How's the courgette doing MrsH? Hope the job isn't too stressful for you and that you're getting to grips with it all. How have you got on with your midwives recently?

Hope the weekend in Scotland goes well GG and that DH remembers to omit the G from the G&T when getting you a drink at the wedding! Keeping all fingers, toes etc crossed for you regardless of what day you decide to test.

R4N2&3 that souonds like a great weight for both the twins at this stage. I can only imagne how far away 3 weeks feels like when your feeling the strain a bit. Hope you're able to get some rest in before the big day!

How are you doing Bucky?? How is work going at the moment? Sounded busy if 3 of your team are on holiday all at once! Hope its not too stressful for you.

Well done MOB for finding the time to post!! It sounds like you're totally in love wth J and T although bit of a scary time for you at first with J. And yay for you feeling a bit more human now! Enjoy this truely special time - you and your family really deserve it.

Are you still feeling nice and positive Ei? How's the diet going? I start mine again this week so maybe we should be diet buddies !

Now I have written far too much and somehow wasted an hour doing so (the joys of working from home).

Am attempting to feel upbeat and positive today as yesterday I was awful, I genuinely haven't been that upset about ttc for months. Think I had put too much faith into clomid. I've been told not to take it this month (one month on, one month off) but I thought it was supposed to build in your system? Best stick to the plan though. I had no monitoring this month (probably why they wanted me to take it every other month, so they didn't have to scan me) so no idea if it worked, I do know that this is a horrendously painful and heavy period though although that may just be coincidence.

Anyway.

Hope you're all doing ok on a drizzly Friday
x

Hi all x x

MOB big big big congratulations on the safe arrival of your 2 boys glad to hear that things are going well and that you are enjoying them so much x

Caitni So happy that your little bean is doing well and those weeks will be here before you know it Glad you are not suffering ms at the moment and hope it continues (I have had none in either pregnancy)

PnM sorry the witch got you how many more months of clomid have you got?

GG have got my fingers tightly crossed for you, hopefully those beans are burrowing in nicely x x

waves to EI JB DG and anyone else I have missed x

Well I am 34 weeks exactly today and saw the consultant this morning,she did a scan and both babies are head down and doing well, they are estimated at 5lb 9oz and 5lb 3oz which I believe is good for twins at this stage.
I am finding it quite hard now so she is
going to see me in 2 weeks and see if I am looking favourable and will consider inducing at 37 weeks if I am.
It seems quite a long way away but also very close iykwim lol

MrsH Hope work isnt tiring you out too much and that the little courgette is letting you get plenty of rest

Afternoon ladies

MOB I was welling up reading your post . It's so wonderful to hear that the CS went so smoothly and your two boys are home and doing well. Your DH must be so excited as well! How are your older DC taking to their two new wee brothers? It must have been worrying when Joel had a dip on Saturday but am glad all is well with him now . You'll have your hands full with two babies but hope you still find time to pop in and let us know how things are going! And I can't wait to see pictures .

PnM so sorry to hear your period arrived - it must be gutting for you. How many more months are you going to take the Clomid for? And, sorry if you've mentioned this, but are you being monitored to make sure you're ovulating with scans or day 21 tests? I'll be keeping my fingers crossed for the next month of Clomid xxx

MrsH thanks for your reassurance re the lack of MS. Seeing the little bean has made me more relaxed about it. Now just frantically knocking wood that I manage to avoid MS entirely! How are you feeling? I'm glad you're only working 4 day weeks as it must be knackering! Though I bet it helps the time to pass, which must be good.

GG sorry to hear that time has slowed right down for you - the bloody TWW grrr. Though it's great you're off up to the North of Scotland for some winter sports wedding fun . It'll keep you both relaxed and happy and it's so good that you didn't have to miss this because of treatment. I may be being dorky but are you saying that based on your last cycle Tues should be your test day? Tues would be 14 days exactly past your EC wouldn't it? I was told to test 14 to 16 days post-EC and tested 14 days exactly...so, er, if I were you I reckon I'd be peeing on some sticks on Tues morning! But then I was actually too chicken to test early so if you want to wait until Thurs then that's OK too . Keeping my fingers firmly crossed regardless.

JB have super fun at the seaside next week - am well . Hope you've got your buckets and spades packed . Hope your DD enjoys it (and doesn't get too much sand in her nappies!).

DigiGirl how cool that your little man is going to be one so soon! And good luck with the controlled crying - I know next to nothing about it but if it works for you then that would be brilliant . It would be so exciting if you started ttc number two soon (no pressure ).

Ei hope things are good with you and you're still buoyant from your good appointment last week .

Waves to Bucky and RFN2&3

Thanks for all your congrats on the scan - still very happy about it (and still obsessively staring at the pictures ). Things grand with me - my patient at home is recovering well from the flu and is now working from home. Though he's still in the spare room and we're both using antispetic wipes/hand rub all the time but I'm feeling pretty chipper and hoping I manage to avoid it. Just wish time would speed up a bit as got my booking in app through from the hospital (not until 23 Aug) and my 12 week scan date, which will be when I'm actually 13 weeks exactly. Seems like aaaaaaages away. I'll be staring at my scan pictures for some more weeks I reckon. We've got a couple of weekends away to Sweden and Ireland between now and then so hoping time passes reasonably quickly.

Hello everyone

Sorry for not posting for a while... have been a little busy...

Have only scanned the thread, but -

Caitni Congratulations!!!! Am so happy for you. You are pregnant!!! Hope DH is better now.

GG Am really excited to hear that you have 2 little passengers on board. I have everything crossed for you (now i can cross things again). Can't wait for you to test next week.

Well, things are ticking along nicely here. Sorry i was unable to get on MN to let you all know. I tried and tried, and couldn't, but managed to get a message on FB, so a big thank you to GG for letting you all know. Friday went really well. The whole cs went very smoothly. DH watched the whole thing. . The boys were born at 10.34 & 10.35, and weighed 6lb 15 & 5lb 10, so they were right to be concerned all along about "no. 2" or Joel, as i should now call him, as he was considerably smaller (but no less gorgeous ). Joel was quite poorly on saturday, with a very low blood sugar, and there was talk of SCBU etc, but by sunday morning he was much, much better, and we got home sunday evening. We are now just enjoying having them here, and the days are just flying by. I am realy, really well, and feel much better than i did in the last weeks of pregnancy.

I promise to get some photos on here really soon, and hopefully be around to chat! Sorry i haven't really caught up on everyones news, but lots of love to you all, and thank you so much for supporting me along this whole journey - each and every one of you has helped make this dream come true for us.

Morning everyone,

Got to be quick as am mega busy but realised my message from the other day didn't post (grr) - just wanted to congratulate Caitni on such a succesful first scan Am truely chuffed for you and DH.

In Bad Mood today as wonder drug clomid did not do its wonder drug stuff as af arrived this morning. Am actually really - for the past 6 months (probably longer) I haven't been all that surprised that af showed up, this time its a kick in the teeth.

Ah well.... best go - apologies not to say hi to all, will be back later after work

x

hello ladies

Have a lovely weekend everyone . Hope it is not too rainy where you are. I am off to my friend's wedding in Scotland and back on Monday, so will check in with you all when I get back. Hopefully, the distraction of a wedding will make the 2WW pass a bit quicker, because it's currently going at glaciation pace . My test date is next Thursday, but after a comparison of the dates from cycle #1 (EC and transfer were the same as last time - Tues and Fri) I it was to test on a Tuesday . I am wondering if testing on Tuesday counts as testing early...?

take care,
GGx

hi ladies

just a quickie to say...

caitni congrats on the good scan so so happy for you poor your DH though hope he gets better soon
GG sounds good i am rather hopeful for you
hope everyone else is doing well
xx ei xx

Have been lurking and stalking the wimbewaifers for the past few weeks and felt it was about time I posted.

First of all huge congrats to MOB on her two little boys!

Great news Caitni on seeing your little bean's heart pumping away. I remember seeing that and being able to totally relax and enjoy the first trimester from that point.

GG good luck with your two embryos on board. I hope being off work means you get to relax more and also avoid annoying Swine Flu carriers who insist on going into work to infect other people.

bucky and PnM hope you both don't have to spend too long on Clomid.

mrsh sounds like your new job is working out well, even if your baby is trying to make it as uncomfortable as possible.

Waves to jb ei and did I see mibbes on here too?

All is ticking along in the DG house. I've had a couple of part-time freelance projects come along which has sort of worked out but is still a huge juggling act between dh, my mum and I with childcare. Doing 5 weeks fulltime in august which I had been looking forward to (no more juggling) but the closer it gets the more I feel I will miss DS.
We've embarked on a big MN no-no - controlled crying. It's very hard going but physically easier than holding and rocking ds for hours and hours every night, so we're sticking with it for another week or so to see if it works. Once we've cracked his night sleeps I'm sure he'll be the happy little boy he usually is. I can't believe he'll be one year old next month!!

Will have to think about rejoining you for ttc#2 soon in a few months. Am broody but actually a lot more wary of the whole process now that I've been through it once already. Maybe that means I'm not that broody

Caitni I just wanted to let you know that I had no MS at all with DD. I was tired and spotty and my boobs were sore but that was really it. A lack of MS means nothing at all (and there is still plenty of time for it to kick in!).

Fantastic news caitni, hurrah for your little bean!! Don't worry about a lack of MS, you are just lucky, and lucky about the lack of period cramps too!!! I'm particularly about that.

GG Sounds like good symptoms. I had weird cramps and was very bloated. Eeek, I'm v excited for you.

DD is very well thanks. We didn't go to the seaside at the weekend, just a trip to visit some friends. We are off to the seaside for a week on Saturday though. I feel like GG with all these trips away!

MrsH sounds like little courgette will indeed be an acrobat then (was laughing at your 'If this baby is small' comment!). Nearly 26 weeks - wow, getting closer to the home stretch

PS Meant to say to GG that I did join an antenatal thread but am a little scared of it - moves very quickly and lots of people on it and everyone seems to be dying of MS...when I've had barely any nausea it contributed a lot to my worries about the scan . Am going to post on it just in case anyone else is having no symptoms (bar acne and exhaustion and constipation!) and can feel a bit reassured by no MS. But they're not a fraction as nice as the wimbewaif club! I vote we stick around until the last of us graduates!

Wow, congratulations Caitni. I know those early scans can be a bit blurry but how great to see everything as it should be. And I told you it was a singleton!

GG how are you holding up on your 2ww? I've got everything crossed for you. I guess those cramps could be implantation cramps, although with things like that people only every recognise what they were with hindsight! Anyway, I hope that's what they are!

I imagine MOB might well be home by now with her two small chaps. If so, I hope they're settling in well MOB and am looking forward to seeing some photos (only when you have time though ).

Courgette is behaving just like her big sister and spending all of her time sticking her bottom into my ribs which makes sitting at a desk tres comfortable (stretching ribs, anyone?). I've tried prodding her but all that happens is I get a tender tum! It's weird, I am not even 26 weeks and feel like I am at least 30-odd. If this baby is too small, I'm a Dutchman! Right, must waddle off to the kitchen to heat up fish pie.

Hope that everyone else is well and that life is being kind.

Thanks GG . The photos are a little odd - if she hadn't pointed things out to me I'd have been stumped! Fingers crossed for you that those cramps are a good sign . Odd crampy feelings were my only 'symptom' - happened only a few times but enough to go 'ow' each time!

caitni!!! - Congratulations!! I have been hovering around the thread all day, checking to see if you'd posted and how your scan went Hurrah for your little bean!!! I bet the photos are absolutely gorgeous! I am thrilled for you and your DH, but LOL at Typhoid Mary . Only another five weeks to your 12 week scan. Have you joined an ante natal thread yet?

I've had no more cramps since - not even a twinge. I am not overly anxious about them, but they were quite odd for me, especially mid-cycle.

will pop back in later,

GGx

PS just wanted to add that my DH drove himself down to the hospital - don't want you thinking my very own typhoid mary is tubing it around Laaandon infecting others as he goes

Afternoon ladies

GG try not to worry about the cramps - I was told that cramps are perfectly normal although I also don't get period cramps so wasn't ever really sure if what I had was cramps iykwim. Could very well be a good sign . at the forecast for the wedding - easy to forget how cold it can get in the far north even in "summer" but just think of how nice and light it'll be. I love those short summer nights up there (I did my degree in Aberdeen and still miss the long summer days ).

JB am glad you're not in London as it seems to be a pit of swine flu infection - lots of my colleagues have caught it from their children and I'm a bit that work hasn't done anything like give us antiseptic wipes for our phones etc (many of us hotdesk around the building). Still, I'm feeling chipper and treating poor DH like typhoid mary . He waited outside the hospital today, as though he felt better we couldn't risk infecting lots of IVF and pregnant women with flu!

So, ladies, good news for us today. One healthy little bean, heart beating away nice and strong and regular . All in the right place and measuring 7 weeks 1 day (I'm actually 7 weeks on the nose today). The sonographer, who was always so lovely during treatment, was great. Spent ages showing me the different bits and bobs and the heart and gave me 9 pictures to show DH . Needless to say we're absolutely thrilled . So feeling a lot more relieved and starting to believe it's real. Roll on the 12 week scan!

Morning all

caitni - good luck for your scan today HUrry back and tell us if it's twins!! Soooooo excited for you and fingers and toes crossed that your DH makes it with you to see the the gorgeous bean(s). Is your poor DH feeling better today? I am LMAO at you wandering around your flat in a surgical mask . Does this mean you can carry on playing Nursie now the shots have finished? But seriously, has the GP given you any specific advice re flu v pregnancy? I can ask my GP sister as her practice has been overwhelmed with cases (Central Scotland is rife with it) My cousin had swine flu a few weeks ago, which caused a bit of an issue because she is a primary teacher! She was very unwell, but she's absolutely fine now and all her class were fine.

picknmix - hope manchester wasn't too painful. Are you feeling any better with the Clomid?

Jolly - one day we should have a thread meet up. All the alumni ladies together with their babies conceived with lots of help from the WIMBEWAIF sisterhood How is your DD?

MOB - I bet you don't have much time for posting Lots of love to Toby and Joel. How are you feeling today? You have used two of my favourite names ever, so not sure if I can forgive you for that

Big wave to bucky ready* ei *MrsH8 and everyone.

I woke up in the middle of the night with quite bad period-stylee cramps . In fact, I don't really get bad period cramps at all so this felt quite odd and they were painful enough to wake me up at 4am for half and hour. I am really hoping these pains are not sinister and I'm trying to avoid googling myself into a frenzy. What do you ladies think? I was wondering about whether they could be implantation cramps (Note to self - I must not get my hopes up!) but is that clutching at BFP straws? Did anyone else get crampy feelings? Oh well, only 8 days to go until test day

I checked the 5 day weather forecast for the wedding I am going to in northern Scotland on Friday. It's going to be heavy rain, windy and max temp of....13C !!! I looked at my southern England suitable dress, strappy sandles and hat this morning. I'm now scratching my head, about what to wear. Bugger!

GGx

Congratulations MOB and MrMOB! Fantastic news. Can't wait to hear how you are getting on.

GG Hurrah for Jake and Elwood. Good look with the wait. Hope you've lots of fun stuff planned to keep your mind off it.

ei Glad the appointment went well. Your consultant sounded really nice and helpful. Great to hear you sounding so positive .

PnM Hope your trip to Manchester is OK. You'll have to let me know when you are next coming up so we can arrange a mini meet up. Perhaps ei could come across from Liverpool?

caitni Do try not to worry too much about the scan, statistics are on the side of everything being absolutely fine. Your poor DH, hope you don't catch it. I'm in fear of swine flu as my transplant means I have to take immunosuppressants. Let us know how you get on tomorrow.

Hello to everyone else. Oh and lets not let the WIMBEWAI(N)F club disband when everyone graduates. I'd miss you all.

Firstly, a huge CONGRATULATIONS to Madoldbird on the birth of your two boys [caitni pops the virtual bubbly] - welcome to the world Toby and Joel . Well done MOB - you must be delighted! Such beautiful names too. Hope you're enjoying these first days together

Secondly, another big congratulations to GorgonsGin for having two lovely embryos on board . Hope Jake and Elwood are settling in nicely and snuggling down for the long haul . Did you get to freeze your other embies? I'm glad you've got the wedding this weekend to distract you from the madness that is the tww. It'll keep your mind off things and help the time to fly! Well, maybe the time won't fly but it'll help it move faster than a snail's pace...ps I'm using my progesterone vaginally which I find very easy though am looking forward to 9 weeks when I can stop (it's making me so spotty - every time I see a mirror another spot has erupted [urgh] - I'm single handedly keeping aveda in business with all the gunk I'm using to try and combat it ).

Ei yay for the good appointment! Am very glad to hear it went well. It's just the confidence boost you need after the rollercoaster you've been on

PnM hope the early start for Manchester wasn't too much of a shock to the system after your holiday! Sounds like you had a lovely holiday, although am sorry that the clomid is still making you suffer.

Bucky was at your DP's assessment, though my fella's like GGs and thinks a bit of aiming into a cup is far better than all the dildocams, drugs, needles that is our lot! Sounds like the Hammersmith have quite good "facilities" compared to the Lister . Glad you're giving yourself a break from the Clomid madness.

MrsH hope things are swell with you (maybe your can-canning courgette is going to take after her lovely older sister who sounds like a little acrobat!).

RFN2&3 & JB hope things are good with you.

So my news is that my DH has swine flu . Well, the doctor won't swab him (or even allow him into the surgery!) so not 100% sure it's swine flu but that's what it's most likely to be based on symptoms. The doctor recommended I buy face masks to wear at home...which I'm about as the NHS website pretty much dismisses face masks (this is also the doctor who told me I couldn't have honey ). If I get it then I'll get tamiflu or whatever, as pregnant women are "high risk", but for the moment he just has to stay off work and isolate himself from me (as much as our poky little flat will allow - thank god for the spare room!). And will be stocking up on disinfectant at lunch time so I can disinfect all handles taps etc and will also buy wipes and hand sanitiser and the like. Poor old DH is a pretty rubbish patient anyway but he's really suffering with the temperature and aches and pains so I feel for him. It started over the weekend, so the doctor said he should be able to make it to the scan tomorrow if he wakes up tomorrow feeling a lot better. But I'm kind of resigning myself to him not being able to make it to the scan tomorrow. Which makes me quite stressed, as I'm now convinced it won't be good news (which I know is not rational but my irrational fears have totally drowned out my rational side ). In a way I just want tomorrow to come so i can at least know one way or the other!

MOB - have you come doewn to earth yet and how much sleep have you had?

ei - I am so pleased that the appointment went well and that there are no underlying issues wit you and your DH. It is great to read of a doctors appointment about reproductive health that has gone well

picknmix - yes, yes, come to London for lunch! Can you not call it a buying trip, even if you have no stores here? Going to see a supplier....? I don't have very much planned for the next couple of weeks, except for a wedding this Friday in north Scotland for a very old friend. I am thrilled that no weddings clashed with the IVF. DH has already been primed, that when I say "I'd like a gin and tonic, please" he'll bring me a glass of plain tonic water.

Caitni - any more symptoms? Are you feeling tired?

Hello to MrsH and all the others

Nothing to report here except a very imaptient, slightly irritable, very spotty GG. I blame the artificial hormones (Caitni and MOB will empathise at how, erm... pleasant it is to have to shove a progesterone suppository up your bum each night !) I don't know how I can make the next 10 days pass quickly enough. I am sooooo desperate to test and yet absolutely bloody terrified of the result. Really. I don't know what I'll do if it's BFN.

GGx

Yay MOB !! Congratulations, thats fabulous news - hope you and your family are enjoying this time together x

Ei that's lovely to hear you sounding so positive - am really pleased it was such a good appointment and has buoyed you up

How's the can canning courgette doing MrsH? Yay for being a viable courgette - must be a v good feeling to get to that stage

Didn't realise you weren't doing the clomid this cycle Bucky, can totally understand why though. If I have to say to Dh one more time 'I genuinely can't help being irrational, please stop taking it so personally' I might just scream. It is crazy how much it can effect you, isn't it? As you say, good training for any future meds we'll have to take I guess. I cried watching 'Wipeout' on tv last night. Wtf?! Oh, and I had to laugh at your Dp's assessment of the wankyporn room. Gave it to my dh to read - he's suddenly very pleased we live close enough for him to 'perform' at home (although he still has to endure the walk of shame with his little pot).

Have my fingers crossed that Elwood and Jake hang on tightly Gg. Hope you have some lovely things planned for the next few weeks to help take your mind off it? Trying to see if I can manufacture a trip into London for work so I can meet you one lunchtime but we have no stores in London so the link is very weak!! Yes, I am still getting the hot flushes. Mostly at night - I was sat in front of the tv last night rapidly stripping off to my underwear. Dh looked round, think he thought his luck was in, then he noticed the red flush and sweaty face !!

Hows your weekend going Caitni? Hope you're having a lovely time with your friend?

Best go - lots to sort out before back to work tomorrow (boo). Leaving for Manchester at silly o clock in the a.m. and really don't want to. Anyone got a spare job going??

Xx

hi ladies
just a quickie to say...
MASSIVE CONGRATS to MOB on the birth of the boys lovely names and i cant wait to see photos
GG brilliant that you have had ET and all went well roll on 23rd and a nice GBFP!!
hello to everyone else
my appointment went very well consultant said all results came back as very good (with the exception of DH's volume but it was only slightly lower than normal) so no physical/medical reason for our lack of BFP but he has every faith that with better timing and luck we will get preg by ourselves he has said we can still go the assistance route and has put us on the private books with an open invite in case we happen to be able to afford to pay for it (not likely) but the prices seem more reasonable now as they have been reviewed its now £200 for clomafine instead of £400 which is our choice if we decide to accept any help
anywho im happy and i feel like a huge weight has been lifted i am getting back to my diet and i WILL have my baby!!
xx ei xx