TTC 10 + months, part 14 (eek)

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A friendly, supportive thread for lovely ladies taking waaay longer than they ever expected to win their babies

Good luck critter! Enjoy the lovely sedation and make sure you have a duvet day when you get home.

And good luck mad. V exciting that you will be pupo today.

Luffs to everyone else

Good luck today mad and critter!

Nelly, I'm jealous of your womble grumblings. It does sound promising. I have felt nothing, and I've been paying close attention. Is ec day ovulation day? If so I'm 9 dpo and nothing to report, I'm pretty much resigned to this round being a failure.

Phew madness. I'm glad she wasn't there. Good luck for ET!

I saw on someone's signature block when I was googling something or other that they had had non-id twins from a single embryo transfer. Imagine, all that time ttc and then you get a natural conception at the same time as your IVF baby!

Critter how did it go? Are you feeling sore? Take it easy. With such a large egg collection, your ovaries must have taken quite a battering.

nelly keep talking to your embie! I get what you mean about finding a cause that doesn't have an easy cure (although IVF does seem to be delivering embies for you). I've found the unexplained label hugely difficult psychologically, particularly in terms of accepting treatment when no one can tell me what it is they are treating.

I'm tired this morning. I still have the tail end of jet lag and I finally made it to the gym last night. And after that, we dtd for the first time since I was diffed. I think we were both relieved that everything is in working order after the earlier sechsfails.

MrsD they feel enough like period pains to be plenty worrying!! And in all honesty I really don't believe you (anyone!) can feel stuff so early. Remember Gin!!

Gotta go but don't let me nonsense ramblings worry you!!

Afternoon.

We now have an embie on board . Embryologist said that it has already gone to 5 cell today (day 2) so they are pleased. Transfer was smooth and now we sit and wait. Very proud of those cells and taking are with my scan photo

I hope it's going well critter. With the time difference you should be in theatre now or very soon!!

Madness - well done. You are now PUPO. Go embies go! Hope you are going to rest for the rest of the day.

Mrsd - don't give up hope yet. There are plenty of differs that have no symptoms. I know of ladies who have had very different symptoms in different pregnancies. You just don't know until you test.

Critter - Good luck! Hope it all goes well today.

Nelly - I hope the wait is not too painful and you are staying positive. I do get your point about having a reason but the reason is not something you can solve. However, like Euro said, unexplained is frustrating because you don't know if the solutions posed to you will actually work or even if it's the real cause. One third of infertility is unexplained. Or perhaps not unexplained rather that science haven't found the reason yet. As for my elevated cytokine, I hope it will be treatable easily as it looks like the treatment they are proposing isn't gurantee to lower my levels. I have to get TB screened first before starting treatment.

Hope everyone else is doing well. x

Hi guys, sorry for short post, a bit woozy still! Yay madness for your embie, 5 cell is awesome! Thanks for all the good luck wishes, you ladies are the bestest. The EC went really well, my lovely doc was signing along to the Human League's Don't You Want Me Baby in the op room before we got started. :-) They got 14 eggs. Now drinking Gatorade and eating cheesy crackers on the sofa.

14 eggs is great, critter. Your dr sounds great. Take it easy for a while now.

And hurrah for being PUPO Madness! A 5 cell is great. Our embie was a bit backwards from the start - only a 2 cell at that stage.

critter well done, almost a rugby team

madness yay to being pupo

and a belated hello to froggy :)

Well done critter!! I hope you're still on the sofa. i used missing breakfast as an excuse to eat non stop from the minute i got home .

sea i hope the treatment does the trick and you get pregnant naturally before having to do ivf. I am thrilled to be at this point but all of this intervention doesn't half take the romance out of it..... I haven't done immune testing yet. If nhs rounds don't work i would look into it before proceeding privately. There is a school of thought that thinks women with endorsing might be more prone to immune ishoos but I'm taking it obey step at a time for now.

I was expecting waxy pessaries (aka fanny candles) for my progesterone but instead have a gel that gets squeezed in every morning. lovely.....

Madness - woohoo for a very juicy embie, the squeesy gel sounds interesting.

Critter - go go the critterettes. Well done, fingers crossed for good fertilisation rates.

Den - its a terrifying time but dont give up hope yet. Big hugs.

Nelly - those rumbles could mean something, fingers and toes tightly crossed.

Rabbit - sorry for the sore boobs.

On the subject of the pain of subfertility verus the pain of childbirth....nothing but nothing beats the agony of waiting and not knowing with ttc. I have horrendous nausea but I would take that any day over the mental torture i use to have, touch wood - not out of the woods yet. Also I had an agonising hsg and I know that women who had the same experience who had babies say that the hsg was the same or worse pain than labour. Well I had that pain and yes it was beyond awful but no way as distressing as long term ttc, also people give you direct empathy and comfort in child birth. This is not usually the case with long ttc. I am so sorry that madness and others are not given the respect and support they so deserve.

Waves to you all, xx

Mad I'm so pleased you are PUPO . The gel sounds messy!!

Critter 14 eggs is an amazing result . Assuming you get good fertilisation are they talking day 5 transfer?

Sar I hope they mean something but they are no doubt either a) in my mind or b) wishful thinking.

Hooray for nausea!!

Just popping in to say congrats to sweet, very exciting!

Good news on the abundance of eggs critter, look after yourself now! Continuing to keep everything crossed for the PUPO-lot. When is the first OTD? And hurrah for the good scan sar!

I am fine generally. I have been very grumpy and tired at work this week, I guess just from a knackering, emotional weekend. Only two days to go til the weekend again. It should be a good one with a hair cut and hopefully lots of time outside.

Many luffs to you all. Good luck with the trip buzz! And thanks for all the support!!

Hi! I'm 23 and on cycle 10 of TTC baby number 1! Frankly I'm fed up now :(

Madness Woohoo on your PUPO status. Sounds like a nice strong and quick growing embie. Fingers tightly crossed for you. at progesterone gel

critter Congrats on your impressive egg haul. Hope that you are feeling less battered today.

Thinking of our other IVF'ers & cheering you on.

When are you off buzz? Is it tomorrow? If so, very good luck to you.

I hope that you have a good bank holiday weekend & that you can recuperate a bit after the upset of last weekend.

Hello to Lyndsey Ten months must feel like a long time. So sorry that you are fed up.

Wishing everyone a lovely long weekend. I'm trying to blitz the house and washing so that I can have a lovely lazy one but some fecking little hornet is guarding the clothes line and I am too scared can't get near it to hang out my washing I think that it likes the smell of the fabric conditioner! MrP is out tonight so looks like the towels will have to be out all night because I'm not getting them...

post fail, I mean't to say lemons I wish you a good weekend and hope that you can emotionally recuperate

Critter - woohoo! That was quite the egg haul. I hope you're still relaxing on the couch!

Pout - Good luck with the blitz cleaning. I hope you can relax this weekend.

Lyndsey - Hello and welcome. Sorry you're fed up.

Buzz - Goodluck!

Lemon - I hope you recuperate over your weekend.

Madness - Congratulations on being PUPO! The gel sounds really messy.

Euro - I hope you get to recuperate over the weekend. Jet lag is always a drag.

MrsD - I don't know if its possible to know the outcome based on the amount of symptoms you have. way for me to be unhelpful I still think it could work out.

Nelly - I hope the womble grumbling is a good sign.

Rabbit - Sorry about the sore boobs.

Sar - I'm sorry for the nausea! It seems everything is progressing nicely, I have everything crossed for you.

I'd like to thank everyone for their kind words.

I have a gp appointment on Monday to hopefully get a referral for an obstetrician. The fertility clinic kicked me to the curb, because I technically got pregnant on my own, without confirming pregnancy or giving me a referral. So I am in the world of normals and it feels strange.

Until then I will enjoy the gorgeous unseasonably warm weather (it was 27C yesterday) and get the rest of my veggie garden planted and cross my fingers and toes hoping we don't get one last snow storm. My lettuce has already germinated and I can see leaves forming . I must move onto the tomatoes, cumcumbers, zucchinis and runner beans!

cucumbers! That was a spelling fail. Sorry!

Gel Madness? I guess it's just like lube, so not too bad!

sweet I can see how that would be scary. How are you feeling? That was an amusing typo!

critter how are you doing today? Have you had the nerve-wracking fertilisation call yet?

I've just realised my next cycle is imminent - AF due next week, so that will be the start of it! I just hope my ovaries cooperate and the mc hasn't messed things up.

Euro - I hope your ovaries will cooperate for you and your cycle is back to normal.

I feel fine, mildly pregnant because I keep testing at random times in the day, and am just trying to stop myself from googling or mentalling.

Sweet great news on feeling pregnant. And haha at the typo, still chuckling. I am so jealous of your 27 degrees!

Critter what fertilisation news?

Mad how are you getting on with the gel

Euro I'm glad you have got back on the proverbial horse and the sechsfail is behind you. I am sure you will be fine this cycle.

Pout is the dog back on speaking terms with you?

Lemon your weekend sounds good and exactly what you need.

Is having a cold good or bad? I woke up with a sore throat on EC day and have been very sniffly all this week. Does that mean implantation is more or less likely, I can't remember. It's irrelevant as I can't actually do anything, but it might help fuel my rampant imaginings.

Better get back to work, will catch up on the rest later. Hello to Lynsey though. I hope you stay here is short, in the nicest possible way

pout I hope the hornet has decided to leave your lovely-smelling washing alone and go and find somewhere else to hang out. A clean house sounds fantastic, I love how airy and fresh our place feels when I've had a good blitz.

sweet I hope it's sinking in and that you are feeling ok. I think it must be weird to re-enter the ranks of the normals after the TTC long-term rollercoaster, but it's a good place to be.

euro that's great news that your next cycle is so close! Fingers tightly crossed. Your body has shown it is resilient so far, I have high hopes for this cycle for you.

Welcome lyndsey! Hope your stay here is short and sweet... so sorry you're having a tough time.

madness I followed your lead and spent yesterday stuffing myself with food Hope you're feeling good with your little embie safely on board.

nelly I hope it will be a 5 day transfer... which would be Monday. How are you feeling? Hoping the womble rumblings are a good sign. You so deserve this to be the lucky round, I have everything firmly crossed for you and will be doing a sparkly knob waving fertility dance for mini-nelly.

lemon a haircut and time outside sound perfect this weekend. Be gentle with yourself - you are really in the pits of it at the moment and you must feel wrung out emotionally.

mrsd I am thinking of you - I bet this wait is incredibly hard. No symptoms doesn't mean anything at this stage - I can imagine how difficult it must be to be in this limbo though. Keep faith! Big tail feather PUPO fluff to you.

Waves to everyone I've missed. I am feeling a bit bloated today too much food yesterday but had a nice day yesterday. The weather was stunning and in the evening I waddled out with MrC for half-price happy hour oysters and a sneaky glass of prosecco at a local restaurant. We saw a robin with his foot caught in some plastic netting in a front garden on the way and called the local animal rescue and left them a note - they sent someone out to rescue it and both the note and the robin were gone when we came back two hours later.

The clinic called this morning and left a voicemail saying that all 14 of my eggs have fertilised . They are at the 2pn stage now (which is apparently normal). I woke up at quarter to one in the morning in the night feeling very odd about conception happening several miles away. It's a weird weird feeling.

Wow - 14 mini-critterettes! How awesome is that? Your evening out of oysters, prosecco and robin rescuing sounds lovely. I'll have everything crossed for you on Monday while you will be unable to cross things yourself .

nelly a cold it good - your immune system has to drop to allow the foreign DNA in the embryo to implant.

Who is next to test? mrsd and nelly must both be getting close, I think. Have I missed anyone?

Critter. Wow 14 sounds great! That's good news no? Happy it's all working well so far. It's perfectly natural to feel weird about this process. None of this seems real really does it. One step at a time and happy they all fertilised! Yay!

Sweet - try to stay away from google. Enjoy the moment even though I know it must be hard not to feel anxious. Thinking sticky bean thoughts for you.

Welcome Lynsey. 10 mths may seem long but you do have age on your side which is a positive. Maybe wait a couple more months and if you still have no luck ask for some tests from your GP? I hope your stay here is short because you find yourself diffed v soon.

Mad - Hope you are taking it easy. Yes all this process does seem unromantic. I too hope it won't come to IVF but I have resigned myself to it. Looks like it will be a few months before I can get started as I have to wait for Tuberculosis results, take the Humira and re-test for NK cells. I have waited this long I guess I can wait a couple/few more months.

Euro - Glad the sesh was fine . Are you doing natural IVF again this cycle?

Waves to everyone. x