30s TTC - Our BESH GussetWatch Ever, With Guest Star Joe Mangel!

Montaigne Meant to say, if you wish for more info, email me: perfectdromedary at gmail dot com.

lyra Well done on living up to your name! I haz 10k in July & training is going ok. Have also just started ashtanga yoga and enjoying the amusing heavy breathing.

ClimbEveryMountain Am waiting for Barts to tell us when we can start ICSI - like IVF, but they pick a happy-looking swimming sperm and inject it into the egg.

Firstly, DON'T PANIC. GPs are not fertility specialists, so even if the results aren't great, there may be options that your GP couldn't discuss with you. Secondly, sperm quality can change pretty radically. Booze, fags and drucks are the main culprits in messing with morphology, and cutting down/giving up can change sperm in around 3 months. Acupuncture may help, tho TNB is too much of a science brane to go with that. Supplementation can also help, esp zinc -there's a new wellman preconception thing on the market which I'll be buying for TNB soon. Atm, he's being forcefed taking wellman vits, wheatgrass & omega 3. May or may not help.

I think you have to be referred to the clinic because sadly, if it does go to treatment, they can only mess about with your reproductive organs. But seriously, try not to fret yet...

Hope this helps. In the last few months, I've found it hardest to come to terms with the loss of some v filmic ideals - particularly being able to surprise TNB with the news that we're going to have a baby. I do really understand where you're coming from.

Hello newbie. Go forth and questionnaire.

that was meant to be Whodareswins, but I rather like the typo.

Welcome WhodaresWines and sorry to hear about the wonky swimmers MoveanyMoutain, hope you get a referral soon.

Sorry about the bad news Mounty. Hope you can get a clearer sense of what's actually going on. Am utterly bemused as to why they can't refer CH to the fertility clinic as he's the one with the suspicious looking sperm.

I have no experience of the what might happen next bit (and I guess exactly what's going on with CH will determine that) but can understand your unease about it all. Other people round here will no doubt be more informed and have experience to share.

In the meantime, have some more gin and a headbutt. That goes for you too careylouwho; the questionnaire's out there somewhere (even maybe on this thread if you're lucky).

Off to the Politics boards to vent my anger.

I likes sound of youz whoyouwhatwherewhy. I am a bit of an intermittent BESHIE meself (brace yourself, about to hear me whole story), but I welcome you, provided you fill in the infamous questionaire. First task: find it. I am also just shy of 33 (end of May) and trying for my first, and encountering some problems. At this stage let me say: WARNING: ME ME ME POST! STAY AWAY FROM THE SCREEN ... BEEP BEEP BEEP ... ME ME ME POST ... STAY AWAY FROM THE SCREEN ... ME ME ME POST ... BEEP BEEP BEEP... and so on with flashing lights.

Anyhoo, I've been away for a while, although lurking. Hey, what's the change of career you are going for Headster?

I've been away because I had some major deadlines and you old hags are just too amuzing. Wait, scrap that soppy-ass comment. Too distracting bunch of evil wimmin and wouldn't let me concentrate.
But really more of a reason is that I was really menkuling as CH was called in to discuss his spunk results at the GP's, and well, we knew that could not have been good news so we were biting our nails and all for a week till he had his appointment. Which he now did and it's kinda shite. Apparently he's got enough boys and they are good swimmers and all, but shite morphology. Him being all confused and shy didn't ask exact results, so I have no idea really, except that there are still some normal healthy ones, but dunno how much. She said options are: referal to the urologist or fertility clinic. GP suggested the clinic as urology is uncertain if it will help, and given he's still got some good boys FC will be able to help and we fit their profile: young (wohoo) wife and older hubbie. And she added that it's more likely to be him than me. Poor guy. So now I am waiting for an appointment at the GP's because only I can be referred to the clinic, not him . Maybe then I'll find out more about the results.

Now, while I have always been all Eekover, organic and all that kinda stuff (Didn't even take a pill, not to mess with my body, how unfair is that??), I was never too bothered about interventions, with the logic of: hey I take Neurofen when I have cramps, bla, bla, bla... well, now that it is becoming a possibility, I am really feeling shit about what we may encounter down the road... I don't know how long it will take, what they will do, what the risk factors are and am so afraid of chemicals and shit.
Everyone around us is getting diffed at the ages of 40 and 50! I have a sneaky feeling my BF is diffed too. Shite. I mean good for her, but why can't we just fall into some cheesy-ass passionate embrace, wake up the next morning with a glow in the knowledge we have just spawned our love child? CH cried last night watching an old episode of Friends where Rachel has a baby.

Anyway, sorry BESHES, I know some of you will have encountered all sorts of shite before, I just needed some gin and beshing around time as this is kinda new. And I think I am unique in the palace for male factor probs, right? Any BESH out there with a BSES (Blank Shooting Evil Sod)?

Again, big appologies for a long post. Just making up for the absence . Kicks to all and pass me buckets of gin.

Hello ladies,

I'd like to introduce myself and hopefully join you if you'll have me! I'm just shy of 33 (feeling quite shy of it ) and trying for first baby. I'm am so relieved to find your thread with its zero talk of "babydancing" and "baby dust", etc, etc as I was spending all time reading TTC threads cringing and choking back vomit. Please. please let me stay

Humpelina, I am up for real BESHfest, having also been here for a year and not met yet any of you IRL. Am of you and Cho, Scorps and Poll, Gin and Extreme, Curlz and Iggy, etc, wot has all paired off lezzertastically.

Muse, IAF, love it, sounds more fun than POAS to me.

Have been shagging without intent this morning. For funs . Pleasant but also felt kind of pointless .

Going for a run now. I did a half marathon t'other week, in the gap between PapaLyra's two hosp admissions. Did 2hrs2mins, and am v proud considering training was interrupted by stuff with dad . How are the other BESHfit BESHes doing?

I am watching QI and they're discussing ye olde pregnancy tests. Namely injecting pee into an African Bullfrog. Apparently if you're pregnant the frog will ovulate in 12 hours.

Doesn't sound as fun as POAS. IAF anyone?

Beshie, I doesn't have your email & you refused to fb. Therefore impossible to organise boozes, woman.

Really? You're really coming to thatLondon? That would be utterly brilliant.

Think hanging out with Cho last night has sort of fixed me, after an awful Friday. Spent today with BFF, plotting, talking about boys and having vegan food (because healthy, obv, not because vegan). Have made PLANS to take over the world.

Genuinely, how do we feel about a BESHtival? Would be nice acksherly to meet you lot, given I have been whining here for nigh on a year...

Boo. Cameltoe I live and work near you, where was my invitation to your beshtival? Am v

Gin it's lovely to see you, you seem to be feeling a bit better..?

Or you could be up the duff Aries? I really did spend about 6 months of first pregnancy plotting ways to do TG in. Was like having PMT all the time!

Have gone back in because of my thick fuckwittery. Can't even summon the will to abuse poor Mitchell. He's very disappointed.

Maybe I'm entering a ferocious bout of PMT? Don't usually get it mind.

Sorry. Will stop stupid multi-posting now.

Vibrators are indeed shrink wrapped. Also v expensive for what looks like a rubbish kind.

I also meant to say droid is LIGHT not LATE. It is very much on time, just a bit pathetic. Stoopid iPhone makes typing hard

Gin! You're back! I missed you!

I haz had many booze with the super-amaze Cho and her very beautiful jacket. Cheered me up enormously.

just being away from home, and not having the tools to menkul. There were no vibrators in the minibar in my hotel though.