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The Elderberry Pavlovas head into 2014 which will be full of ivf, berry babies and BFPs!!!  (thread 17)

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Bunnygirlie · 26/12/2013 23:23

The smallprint –
Berries have a strict entrance criteria (TTC #1, over 30, TTC for 6+months (preferably 12+) NO instadiffers, must have a special pot and def no mention of baby dust or baby dancing UGH !!! Ooooh aren’t we strict!

The 17th thread, wow! This had better be it ladies, time to get off the Sofa of Pity onto the Pouffe of Positivity and beyond!

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CatsCantFlyFast · 30/01/2014 08:05

Oh Pip I was just thinking of you this morning. Red blood? A lot? Sending you strength

CatsCantFlyFast · 30/01/2014 08:27

Pip I saw your msg on the other thread. Not sure if it helps but my EPU wouldn't see people with brown blood as they classed it as 'normal' in early pregnancy. Is this how AF normally starts for you? I had brown gunk for about a week around my bfp. Everything crossed for you that this is implantation and not bad news x

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Bunnygirlie · 30/01/2014 08:29

Hugs pip

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Boomgoestheweasel · 30/01/2014 09:34

Just popping in with a couple of spare hands for holding pip. Keeping everything crossed for you xxx

Pipbin · 30/01/2014 10:20

Its dry brown blood but I can just feel that its AF and its game over.

CatsCantFlyFast · 30/01/2014 10:25

Worth doing a test to stop you wondering? Or is that a terrible idea? Where's your OH?

naty1 · 30/01/2014 10:39

Pip are you still on the progesterone?

Pipbin · 30/01/2014 10:44

OH is at work, but will be home at lunch time, ad then by 4pm.
I could test but the only HPTs I have are out of date as I bought them at the beginning of TTCing which was a long time ago.
I'm on crinone or something like that.

CatsCantFlyFast · 30/01/2014 10:48

I used out of date ones before and they worked. Could OH bring one or do you feel up to a wander to the shop? Are you near any other berries (I would bring tests and chocs and moral support)? Wish there was something I could do x
Alternatively if you want to stay in bed and pretend this isn't happening I think that's a perfectly acceptable plan too

Pipbin · 30/01/2014 11:08

I'm sat in the front room now watching This Morning and writing my reports.
I might order some on Amazon, I've got Prime so they'll be here by tomorrow.
I have just been to the loo and it seems to have stopped, but I'm sure it will come back.

FeatherFeather11 · 30/01/2014 11:28

pip sending you all the love and good vibes in the world right now xxx

CatsCantFlyFast · 30/01/2014 11:37

Naty are you a name change that went over my head??

tigerdog · 30/01/2014 11:38

Sending positive vibes pip x

naty1 · 30/01/2014 11:50

Nope, just popping in

Parsley2506 · 30/01/2014 12:09

pip I sincerely hope it is not AF. The month I got my bfp I had stop/start brown blood around the time AF was due. Mostly just spotting and one reasonable sized 'dollop' (sorry, can't think of a nicer word!), so don't think game over just yet.
Thinking of you

BlueBirdy · 30/01/2014 13:15

Boodle I won't be starting for a while too. Should get my planning appt next month but we have a 5 week holiday coming up which will push it back by up to 3 months.

12 DPO here and this month the 'symptom' messing with my mind is higher than usual temps. Ok it was really just one day with a high reading, but still, that day I was pretty much planning the birth announcement Hmm

I read somewhere that olive oil and avo's increased the success rate of IVF, so tucking into a salad with avo, stilton and gnocci with olive oil sprinkled over the top and I can highly recommend - it is soo yummy!

BlueBirdy · 30/01/2014 13:26

oh no Pip - sorry, didn't read the last page of messages when I posted (doh). Really hope it is just implantation bleeding (i think it is around the right time for that). Sending positive vibes your way x

RevoltingPeasant · 30/01/2014 14:34

Pip, hang on in there. It is far fro over yet Flowers

Pipbin · 30/01/2014 15:09

Well I POAS and it was BFN, but it was an out of date test and an afternoon wee.

happylass · 30/01/2014 15:59

Aw Pip afternoon wee plus out of date test definitely doesn't count. Also would anything show up on a pg test at 8 days post transfer? Hope you're doing ok and you're being well looked after. You've been in my thoughts all day Flowers

ladybunnikins · 30/01/2014 16:37

Pip, I don't know what to say, it's so unfair. Did you speak to the FC?
Naty sorry if I missed your introduction to the thread, you seem quite knowledgeable, what's your TTC story?
I had my IVF planning appt this afternoon and while I was sat in the waiting room a man came in with lots of chocolates for the staff "for the good work they had done nine months ago". I admit, tears welled up. I know I don't know his circumstances and maybe they needed multiple cycles but I still felt Envy.
On a positive note though, the consultant I saw this time was really nice, explained things really well and showed us the embryo sheet that showed exactly how our embryos progressed last time. Also, my BMI was 29 (it used to be 37) so we can have our NHS cycle. Will probably start down-regging in late March. (I did two lots of 30 day shred wearing a bin bag under my clothes this morning just to make sure my BMI was OK!

Pipbin · 30/01/2014 17:31

Well done of getting your BMI down Lady. I had to do much the same. I also cheated by standing very tall when they measured my height and putting all my weight on one leg when they weighed me.
I called the FC about the bleeding but I spoke to the only unfriendly nurse whose response was 'well there isn't much we can do about that'. She said that I need to carry on with the Crinone and test still on Monday.

I just spoke to my mum about it. She hates children and she asked if I was going to bother having the third cycle or just give it up as a bad job!

RevoltingPeasant · 30/01/2014 18:22

Shock at "there isn't much we can do about that" Helpful, eh? Hmm

Lady but that is a nice story! That lucky lady is like one of the berries. She will have been ttc no 1 and going through the whole shit process and now she's out the other side! That would give me hope about their success rates and the way they treat their patients.

ladybunnikins · 30/01/2014 19:57

Hmm, maybe I'm just bitter! I saw a card on the wall written by a child that said, "Thank you for giving me a little sister" and I thought it very unfair that this unknown person had managed to have 2 children when I can't even have 1!
Shock at your mum Pip but I know my mum doesn't really know what to say.

HampshireBlues · 30/01/2014 20:46

Pip sorry to hear your news, will keep everything crossed that it stops xx

Thanks all for your comments re age; we only moved 14 months ago to buy up and move into a good school area - how ironic. I also think that the counties either side have equally ridiculous age cut offs. I am resigned to paying, just hope that we get a couple of blastos so we can freeze them! Thank you also for the get well wishes; migraines settling after a lot of drugs, now just battling a back injury.

Lady big congrats on the weight loss - full steam ahead! I guess the fact that they have some recent thank you cards could be seen as a positive, I hated that the data on the HEFA website was so far out of date, it made choosing a clinic so much harder.

Hope everyone else's weeks are going ok x