Emmsys Weebles planting up the greenhouse for Spring...

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...tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers... and more BFPs please! :)

Get comfy girls, the evenings are not so dark anymore so we'll be passing round the wine soon

Oh wow monkey I am so excited for you. Here's my hand for the next 2 weeks, I'm bedding down in the greenhouse with you now

Just to let you know that the doctors went well, all results to my blood tests, scans, swabs came back 'normal' (with a low normal progesterone level?). I thought I'd be a bit happier than this have to wait for dfs semen analysis and if all is well then we will be referred to a fertility clinic.

Welcome back mls nice to see you

Hi moon glad all your results are normal, but I understand your . If they had found 'something' then there would be a reason and it could be treated. Here's a {{{hug}}} for you too . At least you're getting referred to the fertility clinic anyway, so you ARE moving forward. Onwards and upwards my lovely

Moon I was thinking of you this morning while I was at waiting to go in Glad everything came back as being normal, and that's great you'll be referred if necessary. Do you know whether you'll have to wait long til you can be seen? When do you get the 'swimmer' analysis back? It's really good that things are now moving for you. I find all this fertility treatment quite surreal actually - I always thought it happened to other people. It's difficult to get your head around sometimes... Lots of love and good luck for your df's results x

Thanks VJay Am trying hard not to get excited, and keep reminding myself that there's only a 15-20% success rate with IUI. It probably won't work, but then at least we'll have tried it

Moon it's good that everything is 'normal'. Ahem (dusts off & dons white coat) how many days are there between ov & the first day of your period? If your progesterone is low then there might not be enough days to support a growing fetus - I used to take vit B12 which can help with this. I also used to take cyclogest (progesterone pessaries) which were prescribed by the epu.

Monkey 'take the top off' lol - brings to mind a bottle of full cream milk! Funny you should mention a last feed as I did that this morning. Although I finished bf'ing a week ago, I squeezed my boob this morning (!) & milk shot out so I thought another little feed wouldn't hurt. My treatment is three strong antibiotics which are the same drugs used to treat tb, I'll be on them for two years. Wow just seen you are having IUI, the bestest of luck, the tightest of hand-holds & the sparkliest of baby dust coming your way lovely lady.

Louey I too had a friend who had a tiny bump with both her babes & they both ended up being 9lb-ers. I'm now a small size 14 as opposed to a 14-16 so I think there are a few more pounds left to lose before I fade away! How many cycles has your sis had now?

Vjay sorry to be thick, was it a lump in your cervix you had checked out?

Off to eat Bannoffe pie & watch Enders.

Monkey (leaves bannoffe pie untouched for now) remind me - have you tried acupuncture?

I know I'm still going on about it!!

mls yes it was a lump on my cervix, but won't know anything for a while. I had a smear done and if that's fine she'll just check it again at the next check up at the end of June.

monkey I am only going to think positive thoughts for you

I've just sent Cjay to bed, told him to creep quietly into his room as Ajay is asleep, then went on to hear Ajay squeal with delight at his big bro and he's now babbling away to him

Vjay you couldn't possibly be cross at such cuteness!

That is so cute Vjay, doesn't it make your heart burst when you hear them doing things like that! Sooo sweet!

MLS 2 years My goodness me! Do they have side effects? I hope not...
Thanks for the hand-holding, think I need it!!!!! I did have acupuncture, and think it's wonderful, but I can't find one near me that I can get to. There's one in Brussels, but by the time I leave work I need to leg it out to where ds's school is to collect him which leaves no time to have an appointment
Hope you're enjoying your banoffee pie, it's one of my favourites
ps I managed to miss 'Enders - what happened?

Thanks everyone for your lovely words of support, it means so much to have you all behind me :) I am very conscious I have been wrapped up in myself recently and I apologise for my lack of posting and not responding to people. I wouldnt have got through some miserable times without you all.

mls I have about 16-20 days between ovulating and af arriving, my cycle is longer than 28 days more like 30-34. The doctor said it was nothing to be concerned about to have a low normal progesterone levels because everything else was ok, but am open to suggestions.

monkey dfs original appointment got cancelled so goes next week and it will be a couple of weeks after that to get the results. Assuming they are ok then we will get referral to the fertility clinic. I have my fingers firmly crossed for you :)

vjay I used to do the same with my younger sister, we used to talk for hours, you have loads more of this to come!

and all round

moon very very glad to hear all the results were fine, and I'm sure DF's will be too given that you managed to get PG before. After the fertility clinic have done some basic tests they will probably put you on clomid - seems to be the default (cheap) option and if so one of the side-effects of it is to boost your progesterone levels. I think you can take agnus castus (herbal remedy) to try and boost it naturally.

monkey eeeeek!! Lots of things crossed for you. IUI is more successful than doing things au naturel so you've increased your chances whatever happens. BTW I'm not sure I've ever said but DTs are the result of clomid, there is a 1/10 chance of having twins if you take it

MLS you, mentioning acupuncture, never!!!!!!! BTW DSis is having it too, she's sure its helping her stress levels. Her periods restarted after she started the acu and she puts it down to that. She's on her 2nd cycle but her results are much better than last time round (her FSH was much lower to begin with which apparently is a good sign). She would love twins!

vjayjay oh how cute!!!! I am training Luke to tell Isaac to go back to bed. It worked last night....

barbie how are the (.)(.) today??

Scan is late afternoon. Am trying not too worry (and failing miserably) but this is exactly what happened with the boys. Its the fact that it hasn't really grown that is most worrying. I asked the Dr about whether the position the baby was lying in could affect how big you are measuring and she said not at this stage. She also checked the 20wk scan results and it was smack on the 50th centile then so she said it wasn't small to begin with. I'm glad I haven't got to wait long though at least I will know what is going on.

louey just rushing in to say im here all day for you, please don't worry you probably feel and are a lot small cos there is only one baby in there this time! Maybe you are having a petite little girl like dolly? Fingers, toes, arms and legs crossed....

Louey sending positive vibes. Pregnancy after mc is always such a flippin' head*k.

Thinking of you too louey let us know how u get on. i reckon its a dinky little girl in there too :) back later for proper catchup x

Thinking of you louey, hope everything is OK

I'm back - all is well. The little bugger baby is measuring spot on and fluid levels are ok too. It is breech, but I knew that and it doesn't really matter as I'm probably going to have an ELCS anyway. Big phew! What are the chances of getting through the rest of this pg without another scare.

Went to the supermarket afterwards and came out with doughnuts, cheesecake, chocolate biscuits and pizza....all this worrying has made me very hungry!

That's brilliant news lousy.
I'm on way round to join your yummy feast x

Sorry louey not lousy I don't know who she is!

I don't know, I've been a pretty lousy poster recently. You would be well within your rights to call me that You'd better be quick if you want some food, I've eaten both the doughnuts already

Woaah there Louey you're gonna give yourself gestational diabetes! All I can say is pheeeeeeee-eeeew! How long have you got to go now? Any chance you can get yourself a cuppa, a doughnut, wrap yourself in a slanket & stay there until it's time to push??

Vjay I was reading the thread a few pages back - please get drunk again!!

louey good to hear everything is OK. Must be such a relief for you.

Hope everyone else is well.

mls nice to see you Give the girls a kiss from me

I'll have you know MLS that my gestational diabetes test result was very good (so my Dr told me) Still got 11 weeks to go (assuming that I have it at 39 weeks). But only 6 weeks of work

waves to sabs hope you are coping with a 5 day week.

just realised BQ that I didn't mention you in my catch-up post - hope you are ok and just busy and tired.

Geez vjay you gave me a bloody scare! Last night i went to bed real early to try to rest (and not think of my aching boobies) but i couldn't sleep until i heard from louey so i keep logging on the my phone...all i could see was the start of the last post from you saying 'sorry louey*

I thought it was bad news so had to calm myself and wait for the page to load....

glad it was faboosh news louey im guessing it's a little girl who is going to run rings around mummy be super cute!

Right on off for now, will be back later...day 4 of no feeding and this morning D ate some cereal! This is mega news cos the little bugger darling refused breakfast up until now due to feeding at 4am in the morning.

Sorry barbie I didn't mean to give you a fright

mls we will have to have a fronking session one day . sabs doesnt drink but she's very encouraging

I forgive you vjay ...yes lets all get pissed tipsy and talk crap, or in our case talk much the same as normal