Happy belated birthday Euro, I hope your day got better!
Ari, sorry to hear you're feeling fed up. I think the worst pregnancies to come to terms with are the ones that are due around the time we would've been. It's like watching someone else as a timeline. I would agree too though that the more smug people seem the more annoying it is. Although I've thought about this on many occasions. Some of the ones who seem ultra smug may well be the ones who have had such difficulties getting/staying pregnant in the first place, hence their extra appreciation. I live in yummy mummy central where I am. Everywhere you look there are smug looking mummies with their posh buggies all sitting around outside cake shops or wandering the local parks with their idyllic looking families, but I try to remind myself that I have no idea what they have been through to get to their situation. Yes it's true that, unfairly, lots of people breeze through like we are all led to believe we will when we grow up but it's quite eye opening to find out that a rather large number also don't.
It's funny though isn't it how we are programmed to spare other people's feelings and not make them feel uncomfortable. I mean, all the times that people say stuff like "so, did you not want kids then?" or "not having another then?" to people in our position many of us wouldn't dream of coming out with the real reasons why and it's not because we are uncomfortable or embarrassed it's because we don't want the person asking to be so. Stupid! I'm finding the same thing with work and loosing my mum too at the moment. As a freelancer people always are inclined to ask "So, have you been busy? What jobs have you done recently?". I've mostly been telling people that I've had personal stuff going on and work has been slightly on a backburner but that sounds pretty flakey, like lies about why I've not had much work for a few months but after someone asked me where I was for Christmas and then commented enthusiastically about how lovely it must've been to be in France with my family for Christmas the poor man looked mortified when I told him of the real situation so now I am sparing others' feelings and looking like I've just been fannying around not working. It was the same with all my pregnancies too. I could hardly say, "Well, actually I've not worked as much this year because I've had 3 separate 1st trimesters of crippling morning sickness followed by the misery of 3 miscarriages after each one." Even though it's a pretty valid reason, you can't possibly let on to people about this stuff in case you make them feel bad.
Stogan I'm glad your DH has realised the error of his ways and is now making it up to you. Men seem to just be wired different I think. They definitely don't have the nurturing instinct as their primary reaction. I think they think of the practicalities first and then (sometimes) the penny drops.
I had a frustrating couple of days. I decided to call UCH Fertility Clinic as I'd not heard back from them since my GP finally made my referral on 22 November, a month after my appointment at St Helier recommending the referral - remember that saga? That was frustrating enough as it took a month for the letter to get from St Helier to my GP, but now UCH are saying they haven't received the referral so now that's 3 months passed and I'm back to square one. I know I have decided to have tests privately with Mr S, but I was hoping I could have some of them done on the NHS too to save money, and also to give myself more shots at Superovulation if that's what's relevant. Some on the NHS would be good. My GP is super sweet and helpful and all that but the admin seems to be completely up the creek there. This is one of about 4 or 5 referrals that haven't gone through for me in the last couple of years! Not to mention the fact that I had my Day 21 test back in August and was told by my GP and the other consultant at St Helier that it was normal and that I had ovulated, only to be told in December by Mr S the contrary 4 months later. Grrrrr!
Sorry, bit of a ranty post this morning! Also, CD25/26 today and BFN. My cycles seem to be around 25 days at the moment so I'm guessing AF will be along in the next 24 hours - which might explain my rantyness! I will be very pleased to get off the pred, at least. It gives me such bad stomach issues. I've actually been taking 2 Omeprazole with it and still no difference, even glugging Gaviscon and Zantac doesn't help 
. I dread to think what will happen if or when I need to go up to 40mg.