Rabbit - aw poor thing, sorry you are under the weather. Take as much time away from work as you needed. Yes I think poorly episodes may mean increased NK cell activity is less likely but I am no expert and it may not be as straight forward as all that.
Euro - I will only be able to come to London if it we meet on a Saturday and preferably not either side of half term due to hotel costs and availability. I will be as flexible as possible. But please go ahead and orgnaise what suits the majority. And thank you very much for organising. xx
Gin - ooo eck, sorry to hear you have soft lady parts and it is understandable that you may prefer to be sedated for transfer - nowt wrong with that in my book. My last FET was during a natural cycle which isn't the norm. They monitor your normal dominant follicle growth and combine this with a positive OPK (digis are better for this purpose) as the timming has to be right. Then they pop the embryo back however many days past ovulaiton as how many days old it is. For me, depite the BFN, I loved this process as it was medication and stress free. It suits women with regular periods and good progesterone levels as you need to be able to predict fairly easily when to pop it back but in otherwise the environment is wrong. I got my period exactly when predicted based on my ovulation that cycle so even though it was BFN at least I know the time the blasto went back in was optimum and we didn't mistime it. However, my clinic doesn't like a natural cycle for FET as there is that little bit less control and ovulation can go off once month despite testing. My consultant wants me to go for medicated for the next FET. This will involve downregging and stimming and trigger shot etc in order to predict the right day of transfer with no error. I am not sure how I feel about this. I am partly frightened to do anthing with a smidge of risk but also feel that despite the BFN, my last natural cycle for FET did technically go well. I am going to ask if they will let me do a short protocol version i.e. miss out the downregging bit as I can't see why it is needed for the purposes of FET but I am sure they do have reasons otherwise they wouldn't do it.
My advice to you is ask them if they can let you do a natural FET assuming your cycle is regular and you find predicting ovulation easy. See what they say - either way, assuming the embryo is placed back correctly, apparantly there isn't much in difference in success with medicated being ever so slightly higher for BFP's - but that could be due to some woman mis-timming ovulation in natural cycles I guess rather than the process itself not working.
I plan to do my FET the cycle after next so around March time. How about you?
Joy - any updates? I was sooooo delighted to hear about 11 fertilising. That is a high rate, it is usually about 70% when things are going well. Stay very positive and be very kind to yourself. What wonderful and well deserved news.
Right ladies, new job starts tomorrow. That snuck up like a thief in the night. I am feeling much better and have to say that since my reflexology session on Friday, my bowels and bladder have snapped back in to line and the bloat has all gone. Good job as I need to put that new shift dress on tomorrow morning. I feel quite well other than sore stomach muscles and a tendancy to get tired early in the evening.
I don't think I will be updating on here as much as I will be getting home from work later and will aim to update couple of times a week maybe. But I am not going anywhere and love you all loads!
Waves to the crew x