Harry Potter and the rise of the BESH: Instadiffers, baby dusters and huns will be subject to the spell Evanesco!!.

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Expecto Patronum

If you are you over 30 and have been ttc for over 12 months, are witch like or even better a complete hag and willing to abuse your powers of wizardry to conjure up gin by the bucket load, then fill out the Beshionnaire and join us if you dare in our battle against BESH curse.

Instadiffers and baby dusters will be turned into frogs and used in a potion.

Peskipiksi Pesternomi!!!

bugs if you feel an attack coming on, I recommend the breathing my yoga teacher used to get us to do: in for one, out for one, in for two, out for two, in for three, out for three and the carry on at three, trying to use your whole lungs. I've used this loads when I feel my anxiety levels rising and it does help to bring everything down a notch.

Can you go for a walk this morning? Some fresh air and alone time might help.

Well done Bugs Enjoythe reception and quaff plenty of fizz

Hello BESH. I'm drinking San Miguel and thinking of you all xxx

bugs the wedding looked like a lot of fun. Hope you feel better.

Hest I have red wine. :)

Yay Rasp, yay!

Cherry- thinking of you and squeezing your shoulder.

Bugs- glad that there were so many sensible people here to give you advice and that you got through it.

I had a hen do this weekend and had the inevitable questions. I did panic a bit but managed to fend them off. I can never think of the quips quickly enough.

Right, best get up! Have to leave at 7.

Hope you enjoyed the wedding Bugs and don't feel too hung over today :)

Hello Hest :)

Glad things improved as the day went on, bugs. Hope you have a lovely peaceful day today.

Good luck, rasp! Hope all goes well :)

Good luck, rasp!

hester! Where have you been? How are things?

Well done on surviving hen do and wedding, bugs and bear.

Just stopping by to say good luck to Rasp - am thinking of you!

Good luck for today Rasp. Sending you every good vibe I have in my good vibe store.

Hope you get to rest up and chill out today Bugs.

Hello Hest- how've you been?

Good luck Rasp, thinking sticky thoughts

Good luck rasp

I'm home with an excellent quality embryo on board, in fact it hatched a little more as the embryologist showed it to us on the screen which was actually quite exciting. Didn't much like the transfer but in an emotional way rather than physical. My OTD isn't until 4th October!!! Bloody weeks away!

Oh and three in the freezer too :) :)

Great news Rasp, the key now is trying to keep yourself distracted for the next two weeks - easier said than done, but take it one day at a time.

Distant for the next 19 days?! 19! How have they worked that out? It says 10/14 days after a blast transfer on the paperwork? I might ring and ask why so long. Don't mind necessarily but just wonder why so lon?

Officialdom and to fuck with your head obv. I suppose if you've not got the droid by day 19 it's pretty conclusive and "cheaper" for them iyswim.

Best of luck rasp - I'm crossing my legs in solidarity!

19 days is a long time to wait! Are you not allowed to piss on any sticks in that time? I gather with ivf the drucks can interfere with piss sticks because they give you hcg or something like that? Anyway, with the natural method you can usually know for sure at 16 days post ovulation if you are pregnant, so that would be 12 days after blastocyst transfer? I suspect they just want you to wait long enough to be sure. Massive headfuck for you of course, but if you do get good news, you'd be the equivalent of nearly 5 weeks by then so you would be able to be more confident that you would be if you got good news at 3.5 weeks.

I have everything crossed for you and have sent you some finest BESH fanjo superglue.

Hmm, yes 19 days is a long time, my OTD was 18 days after the trigger, which assumed 16 days after ovulation. Surely they have to take the first days of growth in the clinic into account which means you could test in less than 2 weeks? Not that I'm advocating early testing of course

Just adding to Kat, the FC told me that the HCG you take fades after about a week, so providing you don't test really early, or get told to take an additional dose to help things along you shouldn't get a false positive these days.

My sensitive internet cheapies were still detecting some HCG about 10-11 days after trigger, but that was the end of it. Most of the other egg buddies had got rid of it before that time. I seem to metabolise hormone stuff slowly.

My clinic's OTD is 14 dpEC (by blood test). I've always tested at home around 12dpEC and got a faint positive then each time.

I waited until the day the clinic told me to test. Think it was 18.