Assisted Conception (and the bits in between) Volume 10

[MoJangled]

Our new home, hope you all find me soon...

Mo almost bud how you doing honey? As I'm likely to be busy tmw (and having my pee myself treatment ) I wanted to send you an early hug and tonnes of luck for your transfer. go blasting go.

Don't stop believing

Wow Mini lots of jabs for you. Hope you're doing okay. Exciting times.

Ginger it was just work. Today was better! But I'm still doing lottery every opportunity! how is your news sinking in?

Scarlett good to have you back. You never know how the drugs will effect you - DP says I get nicer! Hope you're on the up now - maybe treat yourself to some autumn boots?

Pocket enjoy your wee yourself treatment

Scarlett these drugs are horrible. I can empathise about grumpiness and anti socialness and generally not feeling like yourself. I just got narky with my boss - although I'm pretty certain he deserved some of it - possibly just not the fifteen year old sulk and pout!! Just need to make sure these evil drugs don't get me fired whilst having treatment!!!

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Ginger !!!! Fan-bloody-tastic!!!! Huge tearful well dones, and try not to spend Mini-Ginger's inheritance on just-in-case pregnancy tests now. How have you spent the first 36 hours of being really, properly, up the duffski? The start of a brilliantly fertile autumn for the rest of us, obviously.

Scarlett I totally empathise. Down-reg is by far the worst part of the whole thing for me. The not being yourself is exactly it; we've all been in a bad mood from time to time but feeling like a whole other, less nice, interested, and energetic and emotionally competent person is just plain weird. When do you start the next phase? Meanwhile, chocolate, chocolate, chocolate...

Hello to Hoop we must have missed each other before!

Mini the boss can take it! HE's not having his hormones and head messed with, after all!

Pocketty Pocketty Almost Bud , tomorrow's Day 0, how exciting. Great to know Downreg Pocket is even nicer as your ray of sunshine on here will just get brighter. Hope your DH knows how much he lucked out! Although the wee treatment may accomplish what the drugs don't . Thanks for the good vibes I'm packing them and they're coming with me to the clinic...

Pooped after a week of travelling around and was just feeling guilty about coming home, monopolising DS cos I wont see him for most of the WE, and then collapsing, when DH told me he's loaded 5 films onto the laptop for me to watch while immobilised in a hotel room, has factored in a bath for me this evening to get in credit ahead of the can't have a bath phase post transfer when I always crave one, and has now gone out to get a biriyani as I didn't fancy the healthy omlette he was going to make - what a darling!

Oh I am so sorry everyone, oops!! I have namechanged and forgot to say - am now Hoops but was Keziahhopes - so combination of name change and not being around due to family bereavement plus my ditsy brain doesn't help. Sorry everyone . Well my ds is now 6mth old and he has brightened up the recent dark times. Tonight he is teething, bless him - dh is looking after him while I - meant to be ironing am on mumsnet!!

Mojangled thanks that's so sweet of you. Ad how gorgeous is DH doing all those lovely things for you, what a superstar. Fx for you today/tomorrow x

Btw I've created our own version of the mobot for you to keep you company on your travels today...

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Hoops aka Keziah lovely to hear from you. I'm so sorry to hear of your bereavement. Hoping you're having lots of comforting cuddles with little David.

Dont stop believing

It's a sign dont stop believing has just come on my iPod

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Pocket

How was the wee treatment and downreg blast-off?

Hoop / Keziah fantastic, now I know who you are! Sorry you've had a bad time recently, hugs to you xx

Considering playing dont stop believeing on a loop for the whole of the next 2 days...

Mojangled it was all okay thanks honey. The saline thing was quick really and not too uncomfortable. And there was barely much if a weeing myself sensation. It's just the catheter thing (as you know from embie transfer) that is the tricky bit.

But the codeine and new top I treated myself to are also helping!

How are you doing. Not long till take off. Holding your hand all the way. Wishing every success in the world. It's your time.

Hello all. Feeling really worried at the mo.. have had the most horrendous headache all day, which I just put down to the lovely progesterone pessaries, and a few very small cramps in my abdomen, but nothing bad, and I have just been to the loo, and noticed some pink discharge (sorry if tmi) and so am panicking that this will lead to bleeding and therefore the beginning of the end... Trying to stay positive, as I have read it can be common to get some spotting, but I am freaking out really!! I have no more cramps or pain now, so maybe it will be ok. Is it worth doing another poas do you think?

Sorry this is all me, me...

Mo, loads and loads of luck for tomorrow! Safe journey to Athens, and fingers crossed for you.

Pocket, glad the saline thingy went well for you, and wasn't too uncomfortable. Yey for retail therapy!

Scarlett, sorry you've been feeling so bad with the down regging, hope your baseline scan goes well on Mon and you can crack on with the stims!

Waves to all, and returns to the toilet for some more frantic checking...

Ginger honey i can just imagine how stressed you are. But try and relax. As you say, spotting is common. Some women bleed all through their pregnancy. Hope you have an uneventful weekend and your mind is put at rest. When is your first scan?

Aw, thanks Pocket, I do feel a bit better now. My DH has calmed me down somewhat and I haven't seen any recurrence of the spotting since so I shall do my very best to try and relax. My first scan is on Wed 26th Sep, so a week and a half.. Will have to find plenty of things to distract me from worrying. I am off work next week, so planning on catching up with some friends, so that should be fun!

Have a great weekend all!

Ginger hope the rest of the day was uneventful. Have you spoken to the clinic? They should be able to offer some advice. They could also do a blood test to check how levels are progressing. Fx it stops soon.

Pocket glad the treatment went well.

Mo good luck in Athens.

Keziah lovely to hear from you and sorry about your bereavement. Hope David is doing well.

Nothing much to report here. Am now fully off the down reg drugs and upping the stims. Looking forward to catching up on some sleep this weekend given all the early starts.

Xx

Hi one and all. Just thinking of you.

Ginger what a scare, glad you're feeling better. There's no helpful advice about early pregnancy bleeding, is there, and just having to wait and see is excruciating. Mini 's onto something with the repeat blood test if it pops up again. Fingers xed it doesnt and you have a lovely boring pegnancy!

Pocket I like your style - retail therapy on codeine! Come to think of it I havent done my usual pre-cycle purchase of something that won't fit if it works, wonder if there's still time... Is the downreg kicking in? Do you know when you start stims?

And how are the other Downreg Queens Scarlett and Mimi ?

Italian chickie, how great to hear from you! How goes the adption trail?

Hoops / Keziah I'm impressed that you're ironing with a 6m DS! I didnt do any till I went back to work after a year and that was only under extreme work shirt duress! Hope things pick up for you now honey xx

So i'm back in my hotel in a novelty rainy Athens (quite nice really), blasts on board. I got quite emotional leaving the clinic, as it's been quite a journey and whatever happens I'm not going round again. But fingers crossed I go back there on holiday to show them a delicious chubby bubba. I'll take your spot on the bench Ginger if I may...

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Mo yay to having your blasts on board. Hope the bench is comfortable and good to you. Do you have time off now or are you straight back to work?

Italian lovely of you to drop in. Hope all is well.

Ginger so glad bleeding has stopped. Based on current dates I think my EC could be your scan date - so we can count the days down together. Hope you have a lovely time with friends.

Pocket how are you my lovely?

Am loving being off the down reg drugs. Belly hurts a bit (from stimming and still from the hysteroscopy I think) but I am ME again!! Scan and bloods today so let's see how those follies are doing...

Happy Sunday xx

Yey Mo to having blasts on board! Is that two blasts then? Hope your time on the bench flies by, and am sending lots of baby dust your way.

Mini, glad you are well on your way with the stims and back to being you again. Hope the belly pain eases soon. Fingers crossed the follies are growing nicely.

Hi Italian! Good to hear from you. Hope all is well with you.

As for me, it would seem the spotting did not stop altogether. It re-appeared yesterday morning and throughout the day. I haven't had much cramping, if any, and certainly not bad cramping, and the spotting has been light and only pink or brown. I rang the clinic yesterday morning and they advised me to up my dose of progesterone to two at night and one in the morning (rather than one at night and one in the morning) and basically see how I get on. They said I could ring them back if it gets worse. My worrying is now down to the minimum and I am taking comfort in the fact I seem to be feeling some pregnancy feelings like a little nausea, extreme tiredness and headaches. I shall keep my fingers crossed and just keep believing. Mini how lovely my scan and your EC are on the same day! We shall share good vibes and faith that both will go welll. Go follies, go!

Enjoy your weekends everyone!

xx

Hi Italian

Mo - great that you have your blasts on board - all the best as you sit on the bench!! Oh ironing, I only iron ds's clothes - for some reason I like doing that ... my clothes will not need ironing until I go back to work (which is scarily getting nearer even with a full year off!!) x

hurray for onboard blastos Mo!

ginger sounds like you're doing well. I think spotting is very common and your clinic don't sound concerned which can only be a good thing.

hello to everyone else from a slightly soggy halkidiki. mini-badger had her first dip in the sea today (if it counts in utero!)

Ginger way to go. I'm glad you got something helpful from the clinic. And yay to symptoms too!

Mini how are the follies doing? Isn't it GREAT when you get some hormones back, even when they do make you act mad in a different way...

Badger it so counts! Hope it gets less soggy for you and you have a lovely break.

So I had a big tingly energy surge yesterday but nothing since. This was the main early symptom when the DS cycle worked, and was for 3 days around implantation time, variously explained as his life force saying hello to my life force (my acupuncturst) or less romantic hormonal and physical stuff (early preg boards). So an hour of it is probably nothing to read into either way, unless that's all the time it's taken for my rampaging immune system to finish them off . But i did get off the plane to a lovely welcome from DS and DH who came to meet me, so that was great. Bring on the thumb-twiddling symptom-googling over-analysing next bit!

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Badger, thanks for the encouragement, and I hope the sun has come out for you in Halkidiki and you are having a lovely time.

Mo, sounds like you are doing great, and it all sounds positive with the energy surge! Hope the 2ww passes speedily for you, and you don't wind yourself up too much with the thumb-twiddling, symptom googling, over analysing next bit! When do you test? fx for you and sending baby dust your way.

How is everyone else doing?

I am still worrying, and still spotting, but trying to distract myself, and stop myself rushing out to buy more poas tests.

Don't stop believing everyone!

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Oh Ginger , this spotting sounds designed to drive you distraction. Do you think a day in bed with "flu" might be a good precaution? Not sure why but you never know. Hopefully it's just over-enthusiastic capilliaries growing madly into a big healthy placenta, but we'd all be worried in your situation.

Testing next Mon. The good thing about blasts is it's a much shorter 2WW. And I'm back at work which cuts down on obsessing time quite dramatically too. So clearly, I'm not obsessing. Much

Keep On Believeing

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Mo (^^) almost bud how is the bench treating you? Hope you're not going too mad. go embies go

Hey Badger and Mini Badger hope you get some better weather soon! And some delicious baklava...

Ginger you must be going crazy. At what point will you go back to the clinic. Hugs to you, really hope you get the all clear v soon.

Mini what's next for you? Are we almost cycle buddies?

Hi Italian always lovely to hear from you. Any news?

So far I feel fine after my downreg jab. Last pill today so then it's bleed, scan then meds to get me ready for transfer mid October! Desperate for this to work this time...

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Mo, testing next Mon, well that's not too bad. I too had a shorter 2ww due to blast but it still felt like an eternity! Fx that it flies by for you and you have plenty to distract yourself from obsessing.

Pocket, good news about the down reg jab and feeling fine. Fx for you too for transfer in Oct. So hope it works for both you and Mo and all the others patiently waiting..

It is my birthday today so have been taken to lunch by my folks and am going out for tea with DH. A lot to distract me today! I called the clinic again this morning as spotting continues and was advised that the brown discharge (sorry, ew, tmi) is an indication of old blood so could even be leftover from egg collection. Either that or it could be an irritation from the pessaries and so (tmi alert again..) I have been advised to take them rectally and see how I do with that! Not looking forward to that... Apparently, lots of ladies have called the clinic in the first few weeks with the same problem. So, not as worried now. If it still continues by Thurs/Fri, they asked me to ring back and they will arrange a blood test.

Don't stop believing
xxx

ginger it might sound worse but I found the back door pessaries actually much better in a lot of ways. trickier to insert, granted, but much less seepage once in which is what drove me mad about them...!