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

[cherrycoconut]

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.

whoa, sorry for the essay!

Fuck it. Full blown droid is here anyone else have the femmecup things? They provide you with way too much opportunity to look at what's been going on! I can say that it is very clotty so I guess something tried to happen but failed which is a very small positive I spose. Still, we're out for dinner this eve so guess who's going to opt for a large glass of something hideously alcofrolic tonight??

So sorry to hear that Fab :(. It's generally an extra awful droid after you get your hopes up. Have this dear little thing to cuddle. And this.

Growing is ok. I have a beautiful womble lining, the best she had seen all day Follies doing ok too.

She will phone at 4-ish to let me know which day EC is. Probably Tuesday. It will be (some shouting coming up) AT EIGHT O CLOCK AT A CLINIC TWO HOURS AWAY I am not good at early starts. Yes I know, I want a baby etc etc, comes with the territory etc etc.

Bollocks fab. Truly shit. I offer up the blue dragon sea slug of sympathy to keep you company. Get seriously pished tonight.

hest I feel your pain. I had to arrive by 6.30am and my clinic is over an hour away.

I used to examine my femmcup contents, but since the D&C I just use washable pads. Still fully examinable for when the mood takes me

Do they offer you a choice? It is so very hard isn't it?

I guess on the plus side, you are young and strong and the chances are, carrying them you would be ok. However it doesn't always work like that of course.

Thinking about the practicalities, how do you think you would cope with twins? Or even triplets?

If 8 are still top grade the chances are there will be some available for freezing.

But yes, a very tough decision.

When I said "Do they offer you a choice", is it the case that some clinics will only put one back in?

Do you have family nearby to help out?

I don't have any. That's one of the things which alarms me.

If my parents want to come and see us they have to stay

Glad to hear the embies are progressing nicely Bugs, only you can make the decision as to whether you want one or two put back so don't let anyone push you into something you're not happy with.

Sorry about droid Fab, have another brownie and something with a high % proof to numb the cramps.

Nice womble, hest and well done on growing! The early start sounds awful. My lap&dye was the first of the day, at 8am, and they expected me at 6:30. That was quite traumatic as well. And then they weighed me...

Hurrah for strong embies, bugs! Do what you want, btw the ohss on our other fred did get diffed with two...

A single glass of wine won't make a difference, Geek! How long til testing?

Sorry about the driodal invasion, fab. Have a large one and don't spend too much time on the cup contents...

bugs well done embies! You don't have to make the decision until you get there, you can change your mind at any point up to when the embryologist preps the embies for transfer I believe. If you think you might have regrets otherwise, two might be the way to go. Sounds like you'll get a nice handful of frosties anyway, whether you put one or two back.

hest mine too My mum is fab but by dad is a small-doses-only person.

driz OTD is a week today, but I started testing the trigger out two days ago and will probably keep testing each day now. I need shares in FRER.

bugs who could drink more than one at a time anyway? Having said that, I also had a tonic water on the go at the same time. With a slice of lemon in it.

Had the call from the clinic.

EC is on Monday. They were told we were coming from a long way away and have put us at midday. Isn't that nice of them?

Good service from the clinic, in my experience they're usually pretty good about accommodating your needs.

Trying to decide whether to call my mother. She's not called me since Christmas. She knows it's ivf at the moment - no calls, no card, no flowers (sister sent some lovely ones the other day), no text FFS. No idea what I've done/not done this time.

hest Yay for getting EC booked in! I'm sure the lack of contact it nothing you have or haven't done. I second waiting. If phoning her isn't likely to result in a supportive conversation, there's no point in doing so.

I hope the lactulose does the trick for you. That clogged up feeling is the pits. The senokot tablets worked well for me last time, but did need a good 12-24 hours to take effect.

I have just realised that I didn't take my bum bullet this morning. I'd dreamed that I did, so didn't bother when I woke up later. Just found it when I went up to grab my kindle. Will a single missed dose matter much? I'm assuming the zoladex will be preventing me from producing my own progesterone.

Evening all!

fab so sorry about the droid

hest good stuff. Glad your clinic are treating you wiv respec'. I second the idea of keeping family shiz at arms length as much as possible until this phase is over.

bugs sorry about WankerBoss and the constipation, but wow that's a really good number of quality embies.

geek much respect to you for doing the trigger testing. I think I will be firmly in the head-in-the-sand camp.

I had a call with the embryologist today. I need to decide how many to put back, and then how many to defrost. Defrost 3 (the minimum) and risk none making it to day 3 and abandoning the cycle, or defrost all 5 and (opposite extreme) risk several making it to day 3/5 and then having to discard them (they won't re freeze, contrary to what the consultant told me). And do I have 2 put back because it increases the chances of 1 working, or put 1 back and reduce the chance of complications. [confused ] Too many variables at the moment. I feel like putting all the different permutations on slips of paper and pulling them out of a hat!

So many tricky decisions going on round here, the clanging sound of menkulling hags is nearly deafening.

Just rushing in to catchup and congratulate bugs on a stunning egg crop! admire hest's lining and wish good luck for Mon. Geek yay for PUPO, come on the embie. Fizz argh on the decisions! commiserations on getting got by the droid Fab... Euro your trip sounds like heaven right now.

I'm on a whistle stop visit to famile. My ill sis is fading away before my eyes. All just heartbreaking. Can't stay long but hang in there all, thinking of you even if I can't leap in and post too much.

Cherry I'm so sorry. Sending you strength x