Eggcellent Egg Buddies - a thread for those IVFing in November, December and January

[eurochick]

New thread. Welcome back to all the regulars. Welcome to all the newbies - please come and join us if you are IVFing or thinking about. The regulars are a mine of information at this point!

Do you realise that this will take us through a year of egg buddy threads? I believe Karbea started the last one around Xmas time last year for those cycling in 2013 and I immediately jumped on it as I was about to start my first cycle in January. Blimey.

Thanks Euro. I bet I will pee in someone's face! My clinic does ultrasound guided transfer as well. My period still hasn't come, eve though it was supposed to come on Friday. Sigh - I bloody hope my body plays ball and does what it is supposed to. X

Good afternoon all!

Rushing around like a moron at the mo (just like everyone else no doubt). Not sure why I think the house has to be spotless for Christmas but hey ho. It deserves it once a year....
Although I'm sure it will be quiet on here while we're all distracted for a few days, would like to say that I'll be thinking of you all & hoping that everyone is able to find some peace & get a small respite from a tough year . I have a nurse appt. on 4 Jan & will find out the detail of the drug free FET. Will update afterwards.

Good luck to all you ladies due to start treatment over the next couple of weeks'. Remember we are here if needed

Just wanted to wish a very Happy Christmas to you all. I've been feeling wobbly and emotional all day today with it being one year since my first Ectopic loss. Nobody has mentioned it, not even my partner, which has been hard. Still, tomorrow should be an easier day. Thank you to all of you for all your support. You are all fabulous. Merry Christmas and here's hoping 2014 will be a much better year for all of us. Xxxxx

All this talk of down regging and stimming just confuses me, I am just jabbing what and when they tell me

Anybody starting short protocol at the end of the month?

You're just stimming then bunny. Same as the round I just did. I didn't find it hard at all. You'll be fine!

badhair I'm very sorry for your loss last year. Can you have a cry on your partner's shoulder about it? He might be bottling up his own feelings.

Merry Christmas to all. I hope that 2014 brings you everything you wish for.

Merry Christmas to you all.

Bad - I've had 2 ETs - both pain free and performed by men (truly) so trust the guy who says it won't hurt.

And sorry that you're sad today; I hope you feel OK tomorrow. Memories suck.

Oh Fish. What a horrible day. It can only get better. Good luck.

Sending fish lots of hugs. And some for badhair too

Thanks euro wishing you luck for jan 3rd, hope it's all good

Wishing you all a good Christmas with no tactless family comments, pg announcements etc and/or for all

Wishing all the lovely egg buddies a wonderful Christmas with your loved ones. Fish, I hope it all went smoothly yesterday and are able to relax today xx

Lots of love to my egg buddies.
badhair I'm sorry lovely, I think some people find sharing their grief a bit hard - maybe that's how your DH feels. Anniversaries are always hard, and i'm so sorry that this happened to you, let alone at this time of year. Take care today.
fish I hope yesterday went as well as can be expected, and you're not in pain today. Take things easy, maybe watch some DVDs to avoid xmas telly a bit. sending you lots and lots of love.

Merry christmas to all!

badhair thinking of you. I've chosen a particular flower to represent my babies and I am currently looking at a bunch of them now. It makes me feel as if they are 'here' and its strangely comforting. I decided to fill my life with those flowers after my first miscarriage and I actually buy them quite a bit. Mrfish bought me a bunch yesterday and is aware that I expect them on special occasions. They were also my wedding flowers.

euro, choco, respisa all my love to you - I'm so excited for you that you are living the dream today.

beetle hugs to you. Today may be hard. My hugs to all who are going through the emotions of lost babies, lost 'images' of what today should be (I was going to announce today).

AFM - my family are so shit I cannot even go into it and mrfish has to be kept away from them for a while for yesterdays shenanigans. However, the reason why I am saying this is because yesterday I felt so loved. Christmas eve and I had friends travel miles to sit with me (mrfish had no choice but to work yesterday morning), stayed with me for hours, I had friends offering to dump their kids and employment to make sure I wasn't alone at the hosp and some who offered their mothers and siblings to sit with me as they were at home. A few people stayed sober just in case We needed travel home!

Irony alert - I cannot recommend an ERPC enough though I hope none you or myself ever needs one in the future. I actually feel chipper although I did cry yesterday for my baby. I've also stopped bleeding after a huge show down yesterday. I was in hospital for 12 hours an narrowly escaped being kept in (I do not make a good morphine junkie though I love the stuff and had to convince them that I've reacted that way before and lived to tell the tale!).

Today we will be in boxset heaven (Scandal) and have x2 left over turkey deliveries to come tonight.

Thank you all for your best wishes, but We are ok physically and mentally. I'm going to have fun next year and seek new employment (already started that process!) and its a bit of a relief to not wake up and think - this time next year....

Merry christmas to everyone, its hard but we will get through this. As a nurse said to me yesterday - 'you have been through so much - I'm amazed you must have balls of steel!'

Fish.x

Lovely post fish.

merry Xmas to all my fab egg buddies xxx

Merry Christmas to all you lovely egg buddies. Thanks for all the support over the past year. I know it's a really hard time of year for all of us. I'm rooting for us all to have healthy happy babies in 2014 xx

Thinking of you fish and beetle especially. Fish hope your recovery is quick. Your plans for the day sound perfect. Beetle I'll be joining you in some festive drinks later on.

Bad thinking of you too x

I'm working today which has been a bit miserable. I finish at 8pm, DH and I are treating today as Christmas Eve and will have our Christmas Day tomorrow. I've just been to see a patient. The dad said ah well at least you don't have kids, I'm sure you would rather get pissed on New Years instead. I just managed to laugh it off somehow

Big hugs beetle.

Nocupcakes - I HATE if when people say that!

*it

fish hoping you have a speedy recovery. Glad you have had a lot of support, it's times like this when you find out what true friends you have.

Sending lots of love to those having a blue Christmas, life can be so unfair and cruel sometimes x

Here's hoping 2014 is amazing for us all!

fish I'm glad the ERPC went as well as it could have.

cupcakes that's a properly twatty comment. I wouldn't have been able to resist telling him how it was.

beetle hugs to you. The "should have been x weeks now" times are really hard.

AFM, I have been doing pretty well at not worrying, but on Xmas Eve I had a visual migraine (zig zag lines, no headache). I've only had one in my life before and it was around the time I miscarried. Hmm. And today I've woken up to boobs that are not incredibly sore. The wait until the scan next week it going to be a very long one.

Rooting for you euro. The wait for the scan is horrendous. Hope time passes quickly for you x

Oh Euro - it's beyond awful, isn't it? I stop to "check" if I still "feel" pregnant about every 15 mins and am not sure I remember what "normal" feels like anymore!

As for the boobs, mine have always been small and insensitive. When I was pregnant with DD, I didn't really notice them so why I am now hanging so much on how they feel this time round is anyone's guess.

I'm still spotting - same volume and in the same time frame (from about 30 mins after getting up for 3-4 hours then nothing until the next day) every day. One minute I'm convinced it's pessary irritation, the next I'm convinced it's a blighted ovum/MMC. Only 5 more sleeps until my scan!

Fish - glad ERPC went OK. I remember going shopping with my mum and out for lunch with friends in the day or two after mine when I was "off sick" from work. Felt such a fraud but now know that I hadn't dealt with it in my head by then even if the physical side was over. Sorry to read of your family letdowns too but so glad DH is obviously a hero when needed.

Hope you're OK today.

Beetle - hugs to you too. You're brave being so open so early. I'm a bottler. Hope you're enjoying your Xmas.

Cups - - keep smiling and ignoring!