Hello girls
Halloumi I also do a long working week in a stressful job (which includes commuting into central London) and I've always had a nagging feeling that my lifestyle (which I desperately want to change !) isn't particularly conducive to TTC. Then again, colleagues seem to fall pregnant ....... !
It was because of this that for our first cycle of IVF I took off from just before egg collection to the end of the 2WW as I didn't want to feel that this had jeopardised our chances. If you look at my post on 31 July I wrote out a rough timeline of how my time off went in terms of appointments etc (sorry - that comes across as a bit formal when written down - it's not meant to - I'm just feeling far too lazy to write it again 
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I was lucky in that our cycle went almost textbook perfectly and I had only the most minor of side effects during DR and stimming (well, perfectly other than the fact that it didn't bloody work !) I was fine to work up until egg collection (although my concentration levels weren't great - wouldn't say that was due to the drugs though - just a total disinterest in work). Only drug that didn't really agree with me was the progesterone post egg collection. I slept really badly all the time I was on it and it made me feel really low. I almost wished I'd been at work as at least I would have had to have put on a brave face rather than mope around at home on my own all day !
This cycle I haven't got the annual leave (or paid sick leave !) left to have the full 2 weeks off so will just have a week (beginning on the day of egg collection). My job is sedentary (I might think differently if I was on my feet all day or doing something active). As 'relaxing' for a week last time didn't help us I now don't feel so bad by just 'getting on with it'. After all, if I had got pregnant naturally I wouldn't even vaguely know about it at that stage ...... !
Anyhow, sorry, now I've written a long boring answer !
Hope everyone else is ok. Caiprihnas - Have you had your IVF appointment ? If so, hope it went well. Not Now - Have you made your appointment ? (sorry - that's a bit personal - you will do so when you are ready to) Hope that your stepdaughter has settled in.
Only excitement of the week was that had our IVF drugs delivered yesterday. It was a bloody big box last time - and now I'm having the extra immune treatment it was an even bigger box last time (I know it's mainly packaging but still !). I laid it all out on the living room floor last night and actually could have wept. Even though we've done it once before I still find it absolutely impossible to believe that it has come to this !!
Had accupuncture this evening. As I lay with a needle in my forehead I did wonder how this was going to help me ????
Right - this is now a really long post which I would have given up reading long ago. As I've felt run down recently (have I bored you with my whooping cough story - probably - I'll tell anyone who will listen) we have booked a last minute spa weekend in the New Forest. For something that is supposed to be relaxing it has actually been a very stressful experience in booking it !!!!!! It's ended up costing about the same as a trip round the world so I had better leave looking and feeling FANTASTIC !!!!
Take care all xxx