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Oh Josie, I'm so sorry :(

Big squeezes for you Josie xx

Every time I come onto the conception boards and see the waiting to try to conceive thread I have an unbearable urge to go on and shout - don't do it, just go for it - very unreasonable I know, but, if I'd know there would be this much angst involved I'd have started trying years ago

My cousin had her baby last night - and called her little girl by my favourite girls name -dammit! But I'm sure she'll be very cute, look forward to cuddles.

I know what you mean, mrsmellow. I also feel irrational hatred of anyone I see who is pregnant, or with a small child. At swimming last night there was a pregnant lady tootling up and down and rubbing her belly when she stopped at the deep end. Of course, her belly was exactly at eye level when you're swimming fast (underwater, obv) and it made me so upset and angry - and so unreasonably so, too! I don't want to hate everyone, but it seems the envy is getting harder and harder to suppress. Hopefully it'll wear off

Hi, just a quick post as I'm busy at work, yet again.

Had some good news yesterday! My scan showed that one follicle is now 10mm, the other is 12mm! My womb lining has also improved from 5mm to 6.8mm. The nurse went to get advice from the dr, who still recommended cancelling it but the nurse fought our corner and they agreed to continue the stims in the hope that one follicle will reach 16mm and they can do IUI instead of IVF! I was expecint them to cancel the cycle so I was incredibly happy There was also a 5mm follicle but the nurse didn't think it would grow anymore, but I've got a scan tomorrow and if the smaller one has grown I'm going to push to continue for IVF as we could theoretically still get three follies of 20mm. I can't believe they wanted to cancel after I've grown bigger follies in 2 days! So I'm praying it has grown again by tomorrow as they did say it could stop at any point, but hopefully it's still going and we can at least reach 16mm and go for IUI

Oh I'm so pleased for you Josie

I'm sending lots of follicle-growing thoughts your way!

Oh fantastic! Everything crossed for you, Josie :)

Well, I don't want to get my hopes up, but my left ovary has been a bit uncomfortable today, a bit like ovulation pains, which I'm hoping is the follicle growing. I can't feel anything on my right one though, so that one might have stopped growing, but even if we get to try IUI it's better than nothing, and you never know, it might be the one! I had a good chat to it to encourage it to grow yesterday

I'm thinking big growth thoughts for you Josie. Sorry to ask a dumb question, but what is IUI?

I've not been around for a while as I've been away on my holidays. My DP popped the question whilst we were away, so that was a lovely surprise . It also stopped me being too grumpy about the arrival of AF yesterday. I didn't really have high hopes for this cycle anyway, we didn't really get the timing right.

Congratulations Pickle But sorry AF arrived. IUI is intra-uterine insemination, basically, I grow the follicles, they give me the injection to release them, then rather than taking them out during surgery and fertilising them in a dish, they insert the sperm directly into my womb with a catheter so that theoretically, both things are in the right place at the right time. They said the reason they'll not do IVF without three follies is because the risks to me during egg collection are too high for them to allow it to go ahead with less than three, but IUI has no risks. I'm so happy it's not over, there's still hope!

Goodness josie what a roller coaster few days.... if we can get you through to IUI/IVF on hopes and wishes, we'll do it, fingers, toes etc all very tightly crossed...

Congrats prickly how exciting!

Hope the scan goes well today Josie

Fingers crossed josie xxxx

Thinking of you today Josie

Thank you all for thinking of me, it means such a lot the scan went better than I could have hoped! My lining is really thick (triple striped or something like that ) and I have, wait for it, 2 follicles at 15-16mm each So I'm booked in for IUI on Friday afternoon!! I'm so excited it's unbelievable! I nearly cried. I know I haven't been singing the praises of the clinic but the last couple of nurses I've seen have been really really helpful. The one who fought for us last Monday popped her head in to see how we were getting on and wished us luck

Sorry for hogging the thread recently! I hope you're all ok too?

Hurrah! See, all those MN-frolicker follicle-growing thoughts did the trick

So pleased for you Josie

That's great news Its amazing what a turn around you've had in just a few days. So potentially you'll get 2 eggs, which will double your chances. That's just amazing! So happy for you.

Don't apologise, we're all rooting for you.

They certainly did Cave and I'm eternally grateful for them

I sometimes think IUI isn't really that successful, but then I think, well if I'm not ovulating regularly naturally, with IUI I have 2 eggs being released, and the best quality, washed sperm being put in exactly the right position, so my chances must be better. And my chances are definitely better than getting pg naturally, so bring it on

woo hoo fingers crossed!! good luck josie

Thanks Today is the day! I'm so scared that it won't work and I'll be heartbroken (I'm already attached to my eggs!) but for now I'm going to put that thought to the back of my mind and enjoy being excited for a change. I'm gonna make two babies!!!!!

Good luck Josie, absolutely everything crossed for you!

GO josie! Fingers crossed for your Frolicker twinnies! Big waves to raspberry and cave xxxx

Morning ladies, well I've had an odd time. I had a 1 day long really light AF and felt crappy, bloated, tired and sniffley so I decided to POAS this morning. This was my first time.

I got a BFN and it turned out I just needed a really big poo

Next time I shall show more restraint.

Sorry to hear that Prickly I think we all started out the same though - PingOAS very often in the hope it would be a BFP so don't beat yourself up.

IUI went well yesterday. It was nice and quiet in the clinic as they don't usually do surgeries on friday afternoons so there was just us in. It didn't take very long, and wasn't too uncomfortable. I was a bit crampy afterwards but I was after my HSG aswell so I was expecting that. Not much feeling now, a bit sore on my left ovary but that's nothing. I'm just now feeling like I'm going slowly mad, wondering what's going on in there, and if they've been fertilised, and if they're going to implant (and when) etc etc. Oh well, only 2 weeks to go!

Glad the procedure went well Josie. Lots of "swim, swim, swim" thoughts coming your way!

Pickle sorry to hear you got a BFN. It is very disheartening. If you still haven't had a proper period in a few days try again.