Yay nelly! Oh my goodness, what a relief, and hooray hooray for your clever ovaries. Fantastic news. Fingers crossed for Wednesday - we are all cheering them on.
rabbit I hope your tooth is better, you poor thing, that sounds very painful. And I totally understand about not wanting to do IVF - as others have said, you have to do what is right for you.
doll I agree - I would put your memoir on my Amazon wish list in a flash! I'm sure it wasn't so funny at the time though! Good luck today, I'll be thinking of you. You can buy the sea salt milk chocolate at Whole Foods here, it has toffee pieces in it too, and is really delicious. I wonder though if you could get the same effect with normal chocolate and then just a sprinkling of Maldon salt on top?
madness good luck at your appointment.
euro I am loving the kitty cam. Korea sounds amazing - how long would the trip be for? Will you have to tell work not to arrange work-related travel for you during the IVF period?
buzzy what a scare about Kayla's escape artist antics - glad she is ok.
gin not long now, hope you are ok during the stressful wait.
cosmos I don't know what my blood type is, just that it is negative (as apparently both my parents are negative types).
sar how are you feeling? I hope you had a relaxing weekend.
artemis That's disappointing about the extra embryos - but as you say, they picked the best quality ones to put back, and as someone here said recently, your lovely warm womble is a much better place for the embies than a petri dish. Your embies have every chance of making it in the more comfy environs of your uterus. I see them putting their feet up, popping the kettle on, and snuggling in under the duvet for a long ride. Come on Castor and Pollux!
My health insurance is tied to the job - it also covers MrC's health insurance as he is effectively freelance. It just adds another layer of complication onto job worries. We will be ok either way, we have savings, and I have hatched a cunning plan to try to encourage them to keep me.
mrsd sorry you're feeling crap pre-AF. I totally understand wanting to get on with the cycle as soon as possible.
All ok here - it's Thanksgiving on Thursday so this will be a three-day week as we get Friday off too, thank goodness. I've been feeling a little blue this weekend, just due to a lot of baby chat among MrC's pals (one of whom is lovely but had got really upset about having been trying for three months without success - I told her about ovulation sticks and that it's supposed to be only a 20% chance every month, even if you're doing it at the right time, for non-barrens). She was very sweet and thanked me and said it made her feel better - but I did feel a little like the Ancient Mariner of fertility woes, with my albatross around my neck/slothful ovaries. On the other hand, my poetry coffee morning was lovely. The lady who hosted (it was just three of us there) made oatmeal muffins and had a hot milk frother (the height of luxury, yum) and she also told me that all four of her grandchildren had IVF beginnings. She showed me pictures of them and they were so cute - a baby and sweet little four, five and seven year olds. And she told me that it took both her DDs several rounds of IVF to produce them. So that made me feel better. The other guy there, who's probably in his sixties, told me that it took him and his wife years to have their children and that he remembered being in a department store years ago and seeing someone pregnant and wanting to go up to her and say 'How did you do that?' because it seemed so impossible. People can be so kind. 