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.

Thanks hest. How are you feeling today? Bruised and battered or just relieved it is all over?

Two embies is great news. OMGIVFTWINZ!

No I'm feeling ok. Obviously I don't want intimate marital relations or owt, but the undercarriage feels fine. No aching, no soreness. Have had some good sleep.

A bit of brown gunk, mind

Just trying not to think of my mother, because every time my mind strays that way, my heart rate goes up. Apparently yesterday it didn't drop below 119 even under sedation.

That sounds encouraging Hest. I hope you have got your feet up today and the most energetic thing you do is test sit a load of sofas. Will go back to lurking for a bit now. May the force be with you BESH old and new.

Enjoy bugs.

hest that's good. I've felt fine after a couple and very bruised and battered after a couple. And the brown gunk is normal. That should clear pretty soon. Are you on the cyclogest now?

Yes and thanks for reminded me!

Does anyone else find them a total fucker to get out of their tight little packet?

Yes, I have had a couple jump out suddenly and land on the grotty floor of a public loo. Luckily I had some spares.

I might go for a walk and photograph storm damage. Bit of light relief....

I'm getting concerned about my heart rate. How do I just banish unwelcome thoughts from my head? That's what's causing it.

Deep breathing might help. Try sitting cross-legged on the floor with your eyes shut and just focus on your breathing. If you can try to breathe in for a count of 4 and out for a count of 8, if you can't manage that then in for 3 and out for 6 is fine. Make sure you breathe in through your nose and out through your mouth and keep your jaw relaxed.

X-post with Bugs Breathing is good!

My heart rate is pretty much always high. And centime's yesterday was absolutely racing. I can bring it down by breathing (in for one, out for one, then two, then three, and repeat). But it gets up really easily.

I remember the cramps. I don't recall whether or not I felt wiped out. I do recall feeling a bit of a space cadet after ET this time around.

Do they drug you? Can I go on my own? Could I drive home?

No drugs unless you have anxiety or cervix ishoos.

For me, it was just like a smear with more people in the room. You'd be fine on your own. I was planning to go on my own to the first one and then got in a tizz about the embie not making it to ET so KFZK came to (literally, as it turned out) hold my hand.

I got the train afterwards and went straight back to work, so I would have been fine to drive. It was nice to have KFZK there to hold my hand. After the first one, he decided to come to them all.

I agree with Euro - the process of it isn't hard but in actuality, whilst he doesn't actively need to be there I think it's nice to have the hand holding and to have him involved as there's not much in the process that really needs him there. Those little embies going back in your tum tum are a bit of you both so it's good for both potential parents to be there

Ha. He wouldn't care!

But the embies in the tum tum might be nice. If there is a baby at the end of this, I'm naming it Kate. That's the embryologist's name. It would be mainly her doing. No true lurve moments, I'm afraid!

Is that Kate short for Bob?

Bugs, some say symptoms include feeling like you're coming down with a bug

Kate is short for Bob, so Bob if it's a boy.

Or Storm. Fertilised in a storm.

I'm getting reet ahead of myself.