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.

Hest do you have to wait for a call tomorrow to let you know it is all systems go or do you go in anyway?

Go Denver Broncos!!! Oh. Shame.

Yep they're the orange ones that have a white horse called Binky or summat as a mascot that is actually charged onto the pitch every so often. The only American footie game I've ever attended was at the home of the Denver Broncos. Interesting but insanely slow and long - it took about 2 hours!

Good Luck today Hester.

Good luck hest, thinking of you today.

Wasn't Binky the Death's ride in the Terry Pratchett books? I don't think I'd be able to take it seriously as a mascot!

Good luck today Hest, sending you lots of calming thoughts and wishes for a clear journey and stress free ET.

Good Luck Hest !

Sat at GP about to get the results from the blood letting.

Good luck Hest - have this handbag full of crayfish to keep you thinking happy thoughts.

Hope you get the results you want MissH and that you've drunk enough just in case they spring anymore in you.

Geek you're absolutely right (and I love that you're a pratchett fan). The horse's name is actually Thunder. Binky would've been better though.

Thanks for the thoughts on my whining Womble hags. Will book (another, sigh) appointment with my doc. She must think I'm a right hypochondriac.

Having a rotten morning so far - why does moving house always have to bring up arguments and am I the only one who feels like their whole life is on hold on the off chance of having a bloody baby?? In some ways it would be so much simpler to accept barrenness and move on.

Good luck Hester hope everything goes smoothly today.

Morning hags!

Good luck with the ET, hest and the endless drive there. I hope today will be completely uneventful and that you get to snap a pic of your embies on screen, we didn't as we were convinced it wouldn't work anyway.

Good luck with the results missH.

Sorry for the waiting limbo, fab. I know all about it. At one stage I was even reluctant to book hols as they could possibly clash with treatment. After we'd been spending too many waking hours at the clinic and had a mc to show for it we had a long talk about it. Last year we booked some amazing hols and fitted treatment around it. Also, SB eventually convinced me we should be looking at moving house this year regardless of diffedness. I resisted a bigger place til now so now I am halfway thru pg living a tiny 1-bed flat up two steep flights of stairs.

The what-ifs are shit. Simple as that.

Glad you're feeling a bit better, bugs. Getting out in the fresh air is always good providing it's not as exciting as where hest lives, that sounds petrifying.

Good luck today hest. I'm thinking of you.

Results are in, all my bloods were "brilliant", nothing wrong with me at all, GP was ecstatic that they'd caught ovulation on my day 21 test as apparently that hardly ever happens. No risk of diabetes as the sugars were only a couple of points above normal (due to eating prior to bloods to make sure I didn't faint ), they're testing them again just to make sure. Clotting test missed as the lab didn't pick them up so they're being redone too but GP says a clotting disorder would have been likely to be picked up prior to ttc.

She reckons this is all brilliant news but to me just means there's nothing more I can do to ttc or prevent miscarriage, just keep going and wait and see

OH getting S.A. after ovulation.

Going to dtd EVERY DAY over next week's fertile window and prepare for more disappointment, depression and worry. If I have the nhs magic third mc what can they do for me? I've been tested for pretty much everything re infertility and miscarriage.

I know I should be happy about the results and that I'm nowhere near the troubles of the rest of you but can't help feeling down.

missh I "only" had one mc, but we were unexplained on all fertility issues and miscarriage tests (bar one NK cell marker, which now seems to have been discredited as being in any way relevant).

I've been in meetings all morning bugs. Pesky work getting in the way of my MNing.

I have a clotting disorder that I knew nothing about till i had the NHS recurrent miscarriage test. It is treated by heparin injections and aspirin during pregnancy. Hopefully your results will come back negative but sometimes if you have a history of miscarriage you get the same treatment anyway just in case it helps.

I'm not at work which is a bone of contention. I left work in the summer as I was doing ivf (which failed) and it was a crazy stressful job which wasn't conducive to an aged fertility-wise woman getting diffed. I had 4 years there of doing 12+ hours plus 3 hours travel a day and an utter arse of a boss. The plan was to do ivf in nov but then my dad got really sick and then died in November so we decided it wasn't the right time to do it. We planned to move house in feb so decided we were best off aiming for ivf in April. Now TWH's job is in jeopardy (his company is trying to make him perm from a contract role and pay him significantly less) and he wants me to go back to work but what company is going to accept me taking time off instantly to do ivf? And what new job isn't going to provide me with lots of stress unless I do something simpler and get paid less which wouldn't be giving us enough money... We're moving house to a town where I will have family support IF we have a baby but it's not ideal in terms of commute to London to go where the money is if we don't have babies. So we're potentially moving to a house that's pointless as we won't be able to have babies as unless I work we won't be able to afford it and if I work we won't have the time to do it. Aaaaargh. Memememe. Soz.

Embryos on board

Hurrah! How were they doing? How are you doing? It must have been a helluva a day.

Hurrah, another PUPO! Now take it easy Hest, lots of lying on the sofa eating cake and watching trashy tv for you