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.

Just go with what you can hes, they can even do it on an almost empty one it's just not as easy apparently. It's certainly not worth causing yourself extra stress over.

FWIW it is actually possible to hold it for so long that it's almost impossible to go when you are allowed

Blimey geek! You must have a bladder of steel. There is no way I could manage that. I had a very full bladder for my first 3 ETs. By the 4th one I thought "stuff that" (mainly because they kept running late) so it was half full. And that seemed to be fine.

Well done Bugs. You've got through it. Now think calm & serene thoughts. PUPO.

Hest I had exactly the same fear about the bladder thing. So much so that after ET I got up straight away, pee'd and left the clinic ASAP. Then I was blubbing all the way home because I thought I would have pee'd the embryo out. Irrational?

Dear Jeff, they don't put embie up your pee pee.

How many woo needles sessions have you had?

@putting the embie up your pee-pee

bugs please tell me you weren't wearing your onesie to your woo needle sesh?

I was so desperate to go after ET that I didn't wait to be told twice - in fact I told the nurse not to bother when she started wrapping the sheet around me to preserve my dignity, I just held my jumper down past my bum! I should add that the ET room is en suite, I did not go down a public corridor like that...

I haven't had any. Shite, this is another thing to obsess about. I wonder if the man can fit me in the day before and after ET, like Jeffers advised. I would be the only one to have a Needles Man.

Arf at Geek sprinting into the en suite, bum out!

hest your lining is fabulous, your follies are coming on beautifully, the hormones haven't made you stab anyone in the face - you really are doing great. None of the IVF wins I know In Real Life went to a needles person. I would love to be nearby so I could give you a massive cuddle and tell you how well you're doing.

Popping in to cheer on bugs you are doing amazingly and i will be rooting for you and the embies over the coming week or two. Take it as easy as you can.

Good luck hest i am going to get the most mahoosive nipple tassles ever seen out if you get a win this time.

Adding my cheers Bugs. Everything crossed

hest I didn't have needle woo for this last round as my lady was on holiday over EC and ET. I was planning to, but the dates just didn't work.

I really want cake but not sure I can stomach baking (any curdling would send me right over the edge). I wonder if I can persuade KFZK...

bugs how's the OHSS going? Have the weird pills done their job?

AFM, having been worried the past two days that the symptoms had disappeared, they returned with a vengeance last night. I spent most of the afternoon and evening trying not to hurl. And then woke up feeling pukey this evening. The only time I don't feel pukey is when I am actually eating. This is why pregnant women end up with huge arses.... Anyway, I'm very glad I didn't feel like this on the plane, and sort of relieved that the symptoms are back.

euro carbs are your friend. I think the reason why i escape sickness is my dreadful diet of white starchy food.

You are amazing Bugs, all the BESH are. I honestly think if blokes had yo go through what we've all had to put up with the population of this country would drop like a stone!

Lots of bread, pasta and potato for you Euro, best thing for nausea.

glad the anti-OHSS pills are working bugs you've done really well to stick with them, given how rough they've made you feel on top of everything else. Do remember though that just because you were deemed 'at risk' of OHSS, doesn't mean you are guaranteed to get it when those embies nestle in and start kicking out the hCG. Very jealous of you getting photos of your embies. Is that because they used an embryoscope, or do they take happy snaps of all their little embies?

euro on this occasion I'm going to say yay to the return of the sickness! Sorry it's making you feel so ropey, but at least you can take some reassurance from it.

hest I haven't had any needles sessions either. The money I'd set aside for it got given to MrG's estranged DD. But I will not be bitter menkul about it. It was my own free choice.

Think I've seen the last of the trigger lines today, I can't even find it on there now it's dried.

Feeling really low and pissed off with the world today. Might be back to work blues, I'm in the office again from tomorrow. Shed my first tears of this cycle earlier this morning. Pretty darn good, compared to last time, when there were tears after every shitty scan telling me no follies were growing.

Kat I did pretty well - no actual nausea, just food aversions until 9 weeks-ish. I am mainlining carbs at the moment. Salt and vinegar crisps are my current favourite food and I have a bowl next to me right now.

bugs I'm jealous of your pictures. My bestie who did IVF a few years ago got pics but I didn't, despite using the embryoscope.

Sorry you're feeling shitty, geek. It's a rotten thing to have to go through. I am managing to be fairly up beat much of the time but sometimes it just hits you, doesn't it?

hest I'm not having needles either. I found it completely unproductive last time I had it (for 3 months), not to mention expensive. I think it might well work for some, but not for others, and not for me.

I felt pukey today. 'twas just the conception vits on an empty stomach. Sigh.