The Elderberry Pavlovas who will graduate (thread 12)

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Roll up, roll up for the best discussions of ewcm, opk, ic and double dying you'll ever have. Probably.

The smallprint - Berries have a strict entrance criteria (TTC #1, over 30, TTC for 3+months, NO instadiffers, must have a special pot) and def no mention of baby dust or baby dancing UGH !!! Ooh we are strict...please note your house may be at risk if you do not keep up repayments lol

Sid I had and AMH count done. The clinic told me that above 5 and they can work with it, 10-20 is what they need, I got 30! The woman at the clinic said 'Christ' when she read that out!

Had a scan today, follicles are doing. Looks like egg collection is either going to be on Friday or, more likely, Monday.

pip glad the follies are doing well. Did they say how many you had?

Evening all!

Sid well done, I'm so glad you've booked it and you're happy with the clinic. Hope all goes well!

Hi Hay nice to have you back! Agree with others, I'd wait and see what this cycle does. Consultant won't know. On another me-me-me note, you've worried me with this revelation. I've been given progesterone, which is what I gather provera is, to shorten my cycles whilst taking clomid. So is there any point taking clomid if the progesterone is going to stop me getting diffed?? I take it for five days if my cycle hits the 35 day mark to get started on a new one. Is this how you're taking provera?

barking, happy, that is a LOT of shagging! You deserve twins at least!

puppy fingers crossed!

Kitty I can't tell anyone the names until they belong to a living breathing baby because I'm weirdly superstitious and also couldn't bear someone having a negative reaction to them
Yay to telling the FC what their job is!

Have I missed anyone?

Nothing happening here. I'm slipping off my yellow brick road a little...pimped again with an OPK (all your fault Merk ) and nothing, not even the slightest hint of a line. I know it's still so early, but this is the point I always went totally mental back in the day when I thought I was ovulating and it's starting to happen again. I shouldn't be allowed to pimp, I get completely obsessive. Stepping away from the opks for a while!

Sorry pip - yay for the follies!

kitty how infuriating that FC changed their mind, couldn't they get it right in the first place

Ooh pip very excited for you! Keeping everything crossed (till shag week at least )

boom hand over those opks, I will lock them away!

Sitting on the CLoL here, fully expecting AF to arrive in 7 days and pre-AF visitor to arrive any day

CD21 btw!

(Furry) Chin up bunny, we're all in this together well done on the follies & shagathons. Made OH some Gf scones so at least he's snacking on gf (fairly) healthy things, & made carrot, apple & ginger 'zing' juice for breaky, tastes pretty good I think :)

I had to have an AMH done today as well my first progesterone check on clomid. I'm feeling sulky as still spotting today and I really can't imagine that it's going away (4 days now). AF is surely arriving within a couple of days.

Pip, great news for your follies. Once egg collection has happened, how long until transfer?

I'm having no checks at all on clomid Boodle, the arrogant fc consultant said that I would Ov between cd11 and cd17 and that was that, there was no point in temping etc. Obviously I ignored him and I definitely didn't Ov by cd17 . No progesterone test or anything.
Done with dtd, waiting for AF to arrive this time next week. ish.

sid well done, bet it feels good to be taking some control and being listened to.

kitty well done for telling them how to do their job!

pip all sounds very exciting!

bunny & happy How long are your cycles? Boom when are you due? Looks like we're all expecting our AF BFPs at the same time!

Urgh. Just checked fb and pg friend has produced. The initial photo I could cope with but now there's one of baby & daddy both asleep, baby curled up on daddy's chest in his arms. It's killing me. Now hidden from newsfeed.....

Barking I don't get any checks on clomid either. A progesterone test to see if it HAS worked would be nice rather than sitting here trying to preserve my rapidly diminishing hope and sanity ! Think I'm CD21 here, AF not actually expected until September unless clomid worked...suppose at least I have that as a way of monitoring it! Sorry your friend is splashing 80's Athena poster style pics all over FB

Boodle hope you're wrong about AF. If not at least fingers crossed that the tests show something's happening with the clomid.

Snow are you passing some of those GF scones around?

boom I was going to tell you mine but now you mention it I think I might be a bit superstitious too and also you'll blatantly steal my names when you know how good they are

No way Kitty, mine are the BEST! And I promise that neither of them are fruit, vegetables or compass points, but that's all the info you're getting! Although now I'm hypocritically curious about what yours are

Sorry bunny forgot to hand over my sticks. Lock them away for at least a week would ya?

Sorry things don't look good boodle have some

Oh barking boo to the baby/daddy piccies, that really would be a killer, few days a go a girl I went to school posted a piccie of her, DH and new baby, it hurts doesn't it

AF due a week today aaaaaaagh

behave boom you know only Prof merk was allowed to PIMP early

I know bunny, I'm a bad berry but she encouraged me ...anyway, just as you were throwing them into the safe I happened to notice that the one I pimped with last night has a line. Quite a definite, full thickness line, not as strong as the control though. Does this mean anything or nothing? I don't use opks usually so don't know if this is just a normal negative or if it's a good sign? MERK where are you?

Morning all! CD 25 here today and like boom I have picked up an OPK habit from merk... no line on the OPK anyway so probably shouldn't bother. No sign of AF yet and have usually started spotting by now, but no other symptoms either (obligatory boob poking has also given a negative result). I hate this waiting game....

I'm here!!!! Chuckling at getting the blame for egging you on. How many DPO are you Boom? When's AF due?

boom we crossed posts! Exciting. Now I'm definitely not putting my OPKs away . this could be good news have you thought about getting an HPT for cross reference?

Boom CD21 and AF not expected until Sept? Are your cycles that long??

I'm day 21 Merk, not sure about dpo but it's a clomid cycle so it should have been between 11 and 17 according to Barking's consultant! Personally I think it was about cd16 but that's just going on ewcm. I'm guessing still way too early for a hpt and I don't want to do one anyway in case it says no If anyone's interested I can put up a picture so you can all analyse to your hearts' content!

Yeah too early for a HPT but an interesting opk result

Yep Merk I'm a PCOS-er, my unregulated 'cycles' are usually 2-3 months long and anovulatory, hence never really joining in with the 2ww before

Kuma did you wait the full amount of time for a line to develop? Because I've clearly been fooled been expecting an instant line like you get on hpt, after reading the instructions properly it would appear that the test has to be read within ten minutes, but not straight away because it develops slower...

I leave it as long as it takes to have a shower, so I don't think that's an issue. Will just have to keep playing the waiting game. I also don't do HPTs as they are expensive and likely to result in disappointment....

Thanks for my flowers,Bunny! My temperature hasn't started to drop yet and it's 8dpo for me, so I've now transferred my hope to having a slightly longer luteal phase this cycle. Boom, interesting opk result. Think I might do one too, just for funsies.