Ski Sunday music ready, the BESH are Bobsleighing their way through the icy slopes of hope and despair to win their medals

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If you’re over 30, ttc over 12 months and wearing nipple tassels under your snowsuit then this just might be the thread for you - if you can prove yourself bitter and evil enough. We’ll be the judge of that. Don your snowsuit , cowbell ready - fill in the BESHtionnaire and prepare to meet our icy glare. This is a marathon, not a sprint.

Wowzers! Well done Bugs, and of course GP's super-spermz Do they grade them yet or is that in a few days time?

WOW bugs, that is an amazing score. Hurrah, now relax for a bit. When do you next get an update?

Shitting hell Bugs that is awesome!! Remember though that it is unlikely that all 13 will do well (its a numbers game of decreasing effect!) but by the sounds of it you should get a good choice of what to put back and some frosties out of that batch - how fabulous!

I baked my St Clements shortbread yesterday to take to a friend's - we're going for dinner and as I have the time it's a more interesting gift than chocs. My god they are awesome

Arse. Over use of the word awesome. Fail.

Wow bugs that's incredible! Go, embies, go! Nothing like a 92.85% fertilisation rate to get you off to a good start Now can you do some buns for me please? I'm a total liability in the kitchen.

hest how're you feeling today? Driz is spot on, it's amazing how the details fade once the cycle is over. The brain is a marvellous thing.

All is fine here, MrG is overly optimistic and I am more realistic pessimistic. I've broached the subject of embryo donation with him, we'll need to see how our finances lie in a few months. I'm on day 1 of the great trigger testing out experiment, but just realised I don't have half the sticks in that I need to do a proper comparison so will be popping to the shops in a minute. Pee is stewing in a pot at the moment (that's A pot, not THE pot, I don't PIATP!)

OTD is a week on Friday, so nowhere near as long as some clinics make you wait. The only downside is MrG is off on an extended stag weekend at 5pm that night, won't be back til Sunday. I'm worried about him having to deal with a negative through that. Will need to start prepping him up a day or two before, I think. He knows I test every day from 6DPTrigger so shouldn't be too difficult.

Nice fertilising GP! 75% is considered ideal, so you have done really well. I've had 75% and 50% on the two rounds where I had more than one egg to work with (both 4 eggs).

Your EC experiences all sound better than mine. I might have freaked out less about being put under if I had been treated like that.

Mmmm baking.

I am a total clutz. I went to breakfast with colleagues in nice snart dry cleaned dress. The first bite dripped onto my boob. FFS. I really shouldn't be allowed out in public. But on the plus side, there is sun here. Yes, actual sun. I had almost forgotten what that was like.

13!!!!!11!1!1! Imagine thirteentuplets. You'll be able to browse and choose your favourite at that rate? bad taste?

My headache has finally gone. I cracked and had some proper painkillers after stabbing at 7.15 this morning. It will have killed my eggs, won't it? :(

I'm very nervous about numbers now after Bugs's gold medal winning efforts. I'm scared I won't get any and be a big fat failure. I realise I'm not really fat - I just feel like a big lazy blob who only moans and sleeps and stabs at the moment.

Sorry

No I really am sorry. This is your moment. I've had some tea and marmite on toast and feel a bit better. Don't you stop posting.

How's the baking going? Do you need testers?

Hark at us out-meeking each other :o

Seven hours you say? Allowing for the traffic around Birmingham, make it nine. See you there!

Bugs you should enter Bake Off . I'm making triple chocolate brownies tonight as my office are throwing me a goodbye tea party tomorrow. My brownies are ver good, even if I do say so myself

Hest don't stress about paracetamol, you're allowed it

Fair point Bugs. The wife of a work contact made it through to the final 100 last year but didn't get selected. She had to do a screen test to see how she behaved in front if the camera

The brownies I do are very easy. It's an Anthony Worrell Thompson recipe, but I don't use the nuts. I'll dig out the recipe.

Frank, I've been virtually snacking on paractemol. They haven't been working though. The two I had this morning were Sainsbo's extra strength power relievers, containing paracetamol, asprin and caffeine. I was told no asprin but I couldn't stand it any longer. I figured people take small amounts of asprin in pregnancy :(

I want a brownie now. Yum.

Hest, I know it's totally un BESH but can I please give you a little squeeze? And a big fat cod of courage? All of this can be horrid to go through, it totally fucks with your hormones, emotions let alone physically. Drink as much water as you can as it will really help with the headaches and don't worry about the occasional naughty painkillers - that's more of a worry when you've for the embryo back in your tum tum.

Hest I took Imodium in early diffment as I had an explosive bottom. I only realised afterwards that you're not supposed to take it while up the duff and convinced myself I'd cause my baybee to grow 2 heads It's normal to worry, but don't cause yourself unnecessary stress.

Brownie recipe, but I leave out the pecans.

Why do you leave out the pecans Frank? I luffs pecans

Btw, droid is due today and I feel like pants and v queasy. This is not my normal droid prep symptom so have decided to menkul around potential surprise different instead why do we do it to ourselves??

Thanks for the cod Fab. I shall bake it.