BESH Cassidy and the Nekkid-dance Kid - walk like John Wayne into our Wild West saloon.

[Northey]

TTC on the frontier of polite society . Shoot outs compulsory.

New joiners will be welcomed after completing the Beshtionnaire and showing us their blazing saddle.

Ummm, it measures progesterone, doesn't it, which is also required to sustain a pregnancy? Maybe something about the higher the number the better from that point of view? As in, you would have a problem if you ovulated but didn't have the progesterone.

The Day 21 blood test confirms that you have ovulated. It measures progesterone which is released by the Corpus Luteum (the bit left in your ovary after the egg has ruptured). Low progesterone (anything under 10 I think) means no ovulation.
The progesterone is released for about 14 days as the CL dies off. If you're diffed the HSG being released takes over. If you're not, your temp drops and your uterine lining sheds.

God I'm going to ace my Equine Repoduction module on this course aren't I?!

Of course I didn't mean HSG did I?! That's the nasty dye test!

I meant HCG, which of course horses don't have as that would be weird

Or HSC, which is what the schoolkids in Neighbours do.

I'm not sure what a blood test would add if you have already seen a corpus luteum on the scan. Maybe just that prog levels are high enough to sustain a pregnancy?

That's what I was thinking...what are the progesterone levels in relation to cycle point when ovulation was confirmed.
No mistaking Droid for anything else this time...stuff of horror movies

Mine too Fee. It can't be healthy that I make my bathrooom look like I have been slaughtering pigs in it once a month, can it?

Howdy folks.

Jewels I think it must be prog as well. I think fancy centres who actually pull their finger out scan and prog together can be how they monitor. Have they not on prev cycles?

I'm still trotting along. Day 38. No sign of droid. Am going to toilet approx every 37 min to check. Wish my bloody hormones would just do their fecking job. Arse.

Nope, definitely not good. Will be having a romantic ish dinner with MSB including some bacon. I need the iron you see! It gets less romantic doesn't it? Previously I've slaved over dinner and worn sexy undies, tonight they don't even match...not that he'll be getting anywhere anyway. Thanks Droid.

Well, my chap (boyfriend, not cowboy leg wear thing) will be working till 11pm, and will be brain-racey and exhausted when he gets in but as this is the first time we'll have seen each other fr a fortnight, and there's a teeny chance I might ovulate to a normal timetable this cycle, I shall be insisting on a valentine's shag.

He'll have to fight his way through my leg hair, mind.

Sechsy North

HWHNN is working away, as usual. We kind of did Valentine's at the weekend, minus the cards as he hadn't been near a shop! I told him not to send me flowers, which he usually does, as they seem to treble in price at this time of year. He can send me them when I'm not expecting them!

So tonight's romantic meal consisted of last nights leftovers with the cat staring at me for scraps She's now asleep on my lap whole I watch Gok and later Big Fat Gypsy Wedding

BTW, love how the gender selection thread has become a BESH reunion!

BESH are choosy and capricious. We may be barren and desperate, but we defend to the death our right to retain gender preference!

Whistles nonchalantly

And been deleted! Wow. You're like one of the cool naughty girls at school.

I chipped in too. Old friends made me laugh! bugs had a post deleted by MN ummmm

But there was nothing offensive in Bugs' post!

Perhaps OP is just a tad oversensitive, as are we barren-ers apparently

You rebel, bugs.

I glanced at the thread early on. I am now staying away cos I am not in the mood for a fight. Unusually.

Droid is still visiting so Mr euro won't be getting any tonight. This time last year I was in Paris, with a view of the Eiffel Tower. Note that was I, not we. I was there for work, for two weeks. So being in the same country, just not able to dtd, is a considerable improvement.

I wonder what happens - do they write to bugs and tell her why?

Your professional life sounds so glamorous, euro

I think.it sounds glam on the surface Northey, but I suspect euro finds it tough being away from monsieur Euro especially in special occasions.
I can't believe that Op did an aibu thread about the other thread. It's like dobbing people in at school....

Well yes, I kind of suspect so too.

Am going to be asleep before shag at this rate.

Just enjoying gypsy wedding before bed :)