Hello everyone,
hope everyones weeks are going ok, we have lovely sunshine here and I am trying to enjoy it in the way that prisoners enjoy their last bit of freedom before sentancing 
my PGCE start date is looming and I am quite dreading it after talking to teachers I know about what PGCE year is like, ah well still a week and a half to go, lots of time to worry about it and sit on my arse on mumsnet get my house all organised and do my suggested reading.
Lemondrizzle no I'm not anywhere near IVF yet, but as a worst care scenario planner I have already decided that if dh's sperm results are really bad and we end up male factor rather than unexplained we would persue private IVF and donate half our eggs to reduce the cost. I also would really like to donate eggs if I could as I can imagine how heart breaking it would be to need donor eggs before IVF would work, as there is a shortage of egg donors (which I can understand,I cant imagine many women who were not ttc would go through injecting themselves every day, drug side effects and a general anesthetic for alltruistic reasons, especially if it was someone who hadnt had their own family yet- I imagine most donor eggs are from egg sharing where the woman is having IVF for male factor or when someone donates eggs for a family member/friend)
pout I dream about being pregnant regularly, almost every night I think. Earlier on in TTC I used to dream about having a bump, going into labour and scans now its alwasy POAS and getting a positive in my dreams maybe my brain has focussed on that more since I have started buying internet cheapies in bulk and I used seven of the buggers last cycle occasionally using them to confirm my pmt is AF arriving. Never dreamed about weird blue nipples though you might be unique there 
Munki I just had my day threes (apart from my doc suggested them on day one which makes me thing my levels might be a bit higher on day three looking at graphs...) anyway from what I can gather by googling and doing advanced searches on this board, the day three bloods are looking at your baseline levels of FSH and LH. FSH is the follicle stimulating hormone, this hormone should be found in low levels in a woman who is ovulating normally (at the begginging of the cycle anyway you get a spike at ovulation.) As a woman becomes older and goes into peri menopause (10 years or so before the start of menopause) these levels start to rise and then when menopause begins the levels rise again. ideally FSH should be less than 10 BUT higher levels have been found not to effect fertility in studies of women under 35 who had the same levels of live birth rate as their conterparts with lower FSH levels apparently so high FSH doesnt always mean that a woman is perimenopausal. LH levels should be around the same as FSH levels eg my fsh was 7.5 and my LH was 6.4. If there is a big difference in the levels it can indicate PCOS. there are reference graphs for LH and FSH levels on wikepedia so you can see if the numbers you are given by the docs fit into the curve.
Euro I avoid the buggy park bit on the train so I totally get your preg avoidance pick another door strategy!
Mrsden and Nelly and other pregnancy happiness ponderers I dont reckon that we will all be cheerfull for the whole 9 months when we get there as other life stuff gets in the way, but I think that people who have tried a long time trying are probably more stoical when it comes to the discomforts of pregnancy, when I was 18 and having eldest DD I was pretty ill and kept having to be hospitalised, and when I was in one time got talking to a lovely woman who had the same illness as me, she had sadly had a late miscarriage with her last pregnancy and getting pregnant again had taken a long time, she was now having twins and was so much braver than I was about all the blood tests,medicine side effecs, having an IV and so on, after a few hospitalisations I had started to insist on the numbing gel in my hand before having the IV in, this lady had had a trainee nurse trying to get her IV in without any numbing gell and was like a pin cusion but was completely brave about it, I really admired her bravery and hope that everything went well for her and her twins in the end.
I've also known people who have had horrible pregnancies due to bad stuff happening in their life at the time. My friend gets pregnant no problem, only has to look at a willy as it were, a couple of years ago she had two boys that she was raising on her own with no help from their dad who had sodded off abroad and had no contact and paid no maintenece, she started training to be a nurse so as to improve her prospects of earning a good wage to provide for her boys on her own and was really enjoying studying and getting her life in order when she met a bloke at college and fell head over heals, got pregnant on the pill(why do all us long term TTCer have friends that defy the odds and get pregnant on contracption/for one shag/still have periods and give birth unexpectedly?! its like we must have an uberfertile mirrorfriend!) bloke was initially supportive and then freaked at 20 weeks when the scan showed possible problems with the baby and sodded off, he changed his phone number and would not contact my friend, meanwhile her family who are not supportive types found out about the new pregnancy (she had been too scared to tell them) and fell out with her as they were disgusted that she was single and pregnant again, her landlord told her that he was selling the house that she was renting too so she had to find somewhere else to live. she ended up on anti depresants pretty much walking around in a daze for the last 20 weeks of her pregnancy, she said that if anyone asked her when the baby was due or anything about the bump when she was out and about she would snap 'none of your buisness' at them. I don't think I could have coped half so well as she did in the situation she was in, everything is ok now as baby was fine in the end (Dad never did come round though, he's seen the little boy once in the street and ignored her and him) and it makes me shudder on her behalf to think of how horrible that period of time was for her, I guess looking at her in the street though with two little lads playing up (as they didnt know what was wrong with mum and were picking up the vibes about the house situation and seeing her packing up boxes when she couldnt give them anything definate about where they were moving) and a big bump shouting or looking miserable and blank people could have thought she was fed up with her kids and being pregnant rather than going through all the stuff that she was. phew that was a thursday morning essay sorry! I think I have thought about this too much really as I do ponder this kind of stuff a lot, I should spend my time on something more productive than TTC obsessing really and go and do some reading and housework! 