Gather up your fertility spells and sign in for the lentil-weaving BESH woo hippy thread!

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Greetings sisters [puts flowers in hair]

Bring your very best woo & let's see if we can magick up a few baybees (insta-differs not allowed).

New recruits are required to locate the BESH spell aka the BESHtionnaire and submit for further scrutiny.

[dances round bare foot]

Blimey, I go off to tidy the junk spare room for an hour and you lot haven't half gabbed! Aaah winklywoo! How are you?!

norf surely AMNH has made you sit through encouraged you to watch Star Wars?!

I'm really sorry to hear that's happening lems. Either way it was crap :( I hope SB is taking excellent care of you. Pain killers and hot water bottle at the ready. I guess the totally rubbish only positive thing is they don't have to intervene? But still.. :(

lemons so sorry for you :( Can't even imagine how that feels.

faith Hi! Things are ok here. Did have some proper ishoos with the hairy one at the start of the "summer" (what summer?) but think we are in a pretty good place right now.

NC slightly closer to my old name to reduce confusion...

Thanks for the fish-finger prod norf and for the tip to go and look at a scary place for tips. Not sure I am brave enough...

And faif, it is better interventionless. So let's hope it clears everything nicely. If this one won't be a baybee, I'd rather be rid of it all together. And interventions sound grim. Also the body gets points for recognising something went all wrong.

Hey cocktails we've met before, haven't we?

Oh yes, I see it now... But I quite like the cocktails-part. Maybe we can call you cocktails to confuse the hell out of people popping in to the fred. Like I was a bit mystified with faif/fee when I first arrived.

Well she is mystical, lemon. And woo.

I like cocks, though, and always enjoy looking impenetrable to newbies. It makes the shock of our actual desperation for new meat loveliness so much greater.

I like cocks. Snigger.

Yes, very mystical. Super woo and stuff mystical tidyer, that's me. Looking good though!

Smirking here at "I like cocks". Did you read that thread in chat about the man with the world's biggest?

For the benefit of newbies and those confused by namechanging, I'm fizzy, formerly known as ShredniVashtar. My partner in crime is GFBW (green fingered bookworm). Ttc since end of nov 2010; 1 mmc and 1 ectopic since then.

Cock

Vital stats - 31, TTC 3yrs. PCOS (ask me how many follicles I have. Go on. It's a great game). 9 cycles clomid. Lap, dye and ovarian drilling. Not a sniff of a bfp. Waiting for ivf clinic appointment.

Hello BESH. Sorry for the shitty times Lemons.

Norf I am a little in awe of your coping skillz. You're putting up with a whole heap of head fuck. DHB.

FC open eve was veh interesting. The clinic director worked on the team that created the very first IVF baby! And he's the 'inventor' of Array CGH (which we are going to have). Subsequent appointment yesterday was quite hard. The consultant said she was very worried about my low AMH meaning I wouldn't respond well to the stimms drugs. I've gone from feeling quite positive to a bit 'meh'. Also droid arrived today to rub it in that I'm Not Pregnant. Am also an Emotional Wreck due to lack of sleep.

How rude of me... I'm Jethro (formerly Sunny).
Almost 36. TTC 2yrs 9 months. SSG has dodgy white goods caused by a genetic / chromosome issue & I have the ovarian reserve of an 85 year old. Brilliant combination. Due to start first cycle of IVF/ICSI v soon.

Oh Jethro, life really likes to rub our faces in it at times, doesn't she [shakes fist at sky]

Apologies for super short post earlier, MIL arrived as I was typing so had to cut it short.

Welcome FTW. I'm Frankel (aka CaveMum in a previous life). 31 years old, TTC #1 since May 2010. Diagnosed PCOS; 4 cycles of Clomid; now waiting to start Gonadatrophin treatment (aka ovulation induction). Married to HWHNN (He Who Has No Name, aged 37)

[joins in cock appreciation] Fnar fnar!

Bah, jeth. The whole thing is one long series of ups and downs, isn't it? You would think fate could have left you a little longer to feel up about this step, wouldn't you?

ftw, I am Northey, 34, having unprotected sechs for the past 8 years, but trying "properly" (with regimented shagging and doctorly involvement) for 2 years 10 months. PCOS, tackled with Metformin, ovarian drilling, Clomid, lap+dye, HSG (in no particular order). Last year's ectopic left me one tube down. Last month's ectopic was sucked out of the remaining tube. Current drama is that hcg levels, which were previously falling slowly but satisfactorily, have suddenly started rising again. Fun times.

Blimey we've all had a crap time of it haven't we?!

On a more interesting note, the advert at the bottom of the thread for me is a pelvic toner!

I saw that the other day Faithy Know your market and all that!

Are they trying to tell me something?!

Now, don't pass out from the joss stick fumes from but I just had.....fun! I've had a fab evening. My Dad realised I was on my own tonight - plans included junk food and watching rubbish tv! - and invited me to a free screening of Last night of the proms with some of his pals. It was great! Live performances from a couple of young local musicians first (who were wonderful). His friends are hilarious (I was the youngest by at least 30 years!) and I honestly can't remember the last time I enjoyed myself that much! Is that sad? I think I've been so overwhelmed with the infertility, the fire, my health problems I'd almost forgotten. Now I'm pregnant the pain isn't as bad (thank you God) and I feel like I'm living again rather than just surviving. A turning point I think. On that happy note I'm collapsing into bed. Luff you all.

Aww, glad you had fun Faithy, you deserve it.
I had a very rock and roll evening - we went to bed at 9pm and I sat up reading (currently having a "classics" push and reading Dracula) for an hour before nodding off and

Hurrah for fee's lovely evening. Though that she was going to eat junk food. What's wrong with a nice mung bean? Hmm? Hmmm?

Off to hospital again this morning. Need to have blood taken before lunch, then kill time (possibly with the pygmy goats) for a couple of hours, then get the results and discuss next steps (if required) with doctor. I just feel so defeated and beaten down by it all. Even if it turns out that the hcg rise was some sort of freak, and today I'm at zero, I feel like i'm part way through a wringer.

I like cocks too. A lot more now my hcg is falling. So sorry about your plans for the day, norf. Keeping stuff crossed for a big fat zero, as the wringer would probably get worse, if not...

Love the pensioner's evening-do faif. Glad you enjoyed yourself so much! And at FSR giving you a run for your money re: old age. I on the other hand watched telly, then wailed on SB, then chatted properly for a while and went to bed at 11pm.

Oh, for the newbies. I am lemon, 33, married to the lovely SB, been TTC for 25 months til BFP in August (SO+IUI), which is currently going horribly wrong (at 7 weeks). Oh and we are unexplained, although I have my mild male factor suspicions.

Hope all goes well at the hospital Norf [manly shoulder punch]

lemon, I'm in awe of you (and Norf) and how you are dealing with the shite life is throwing at you.

BTW Norf, come join us if you need to kill some time

If we didn't like cocks I think we'd on a rather differnet type of forum....

I was in bed by 10 on Friday but felt very rock n roll not getting in til 11.30 last night!

Thinking of you today norf. Hope the goats are good company. Praying for a clear outcome and that the ringer is not continual.

Sorry it is as it is lemons. Wailing is par for the course I think. It's what SB is there for.

Morning BESH!

I am back home after my work travels (but off again in a couple of week - I'm hoping to ov in the middle!). I have a lot of catching up on the fred to do, but I can see from this page that drizz has had bad news. Hands over gin and chocolate.

I am flipping knackered after an absolutely manic last week to my trip, and very glad to be home (even if I did have to get up at 4am uk time yesterday to get my flight).

I am trying to muster the energy for a run. Three weeks of hotel and restaurant food have not had a good effect on the size of my arse.