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.

Right.

1. Gin - Yes. And as it has juniper berries in it I consider it one of my 5 a day.

2. Men - Cradle Snatcher. He's 30. Eugh..

3. Baybee-making - to put a baybee in your tumtum, which hole do you use:
   c) foofoo, although I'm not adverse to using other holes just for fun.

4. Testing - when someone wonders if they should test for updiff (pg), do you:
   a) bellow 'POAS!' at them non-stop and punch them repeatedly in the kidneys till they wet themselves anyway.

5. Is R2D2:
   b) the source of all evil.

6. Number of pets? 0.

7. Inappropriate (read: weird) crush of shame? Dara O Briain

8. Lesbian crush? Angelina Jolie

9. How much money have you spent on sticks you then urinate on?
   b) Over 100 quid. Weeeellllll over 100 quid.

10. Which of these sentences is appalling:
    c) both of the above

11. How barren are you?
    a) childless and TTC for at least one year

Juniper berries always reminds me of the Life of Brian
"Of course they brought forth juniper berries, they're juniper BUSHES!.....now just FUCK OFF!"

You sound suitable . I can kind of understand the Dara thing. Kind of...

fizz one of the egg buddies struggles with lining. I think she is on a pre-ov oestrogen programme. It might be worth stalking her/asking your clinic about that. Sorry, but the poster's name escapes me for the moment!

Dara O'Brian?!? That is an odd crush. He looks so much older than he actually is.

Anyway, nutter you sound like you'll do. Have you a nickname for the toyboy? mr euro is KFZK (kung fu zombie killa, after past and present hobbies).

Should I be resting? What did you do?

Oooh, a newbie! I say you're in. Just don't get a bfp next cycle and fark off. At least not without some quality swearing first.

Thanks for the tip, euro - I will have a nosey on the egg buddies thread. I lurked on it for a bit but couldn't keep up!

euro, I've plenty more weird crushes where that one came from. Guess that's what you get when toyboy's overseas. Speaking of which, I'll name him KOBT for King of Bad Timing, seeing as his trips seem to match my fertile time with uncanny accuracy.

fizzy, I guarantee you I won't get a bfp next cycle coz while KOBT is well endowed, his willy won't stretch from East Africa to Sheffield.

I've got a crush of shame I bet no one else on MN has - the guy with the 'tache dancing in his office in the Cadbury's ad. I think it's the naughty twinkle in his eye.

Good nn, nutter.

hest I pretty much just carried on as normal. It's my preference. I just wasn't gymming as the last EC left me feeling pretty bruised.

Welcome Mrs - you're in! So long as you are also appreciative of the gratuitous use of the word Cunt

Bugs - Have a whole trawler of fish slaps! You don't know until it's official! PUPO remember!

Tits out everyone!

Just took delivery of IC OPK's from Amazon, need advice, I didn't leave it to cool to room temp (can't be arsed! ) Did a dip with negative result and stuck it to some paper to allow comparison over the next week. My main issue is when to test, it says not first thing add you produce LH in the morning, is this because of the time of day or because it happens after you wake up? I work shifts and start nights tonight so need to know when I should test!? Any help appreciated!

Ooh and I keep forgetting what the S stand for in BESH!

Selfish! That's us...

Welcome newbie nutjob. I agree you'll do, but I am not here really, so might not have a say!

Sorry Geek about the BFN. They suck :( especially after treatment.

Hest, just do what you feel like. I worked and put my head firmly in the sand.

Bugs, a list of good things to do if this fails, is a good plan. Just making sure you've got something to look forward to. But it might be a backup plan that you don't need.

Is it the weekend already? I am too tired to think...

MissH, if you have plenty of sticks and fancy a good menkul i'd test twice a day (or night) after bring up for a few hours and again jut before tea.

Welcome aboard nutjob

Thanks all :)

Hobart, my potty mouthed brother cured me of any cunt-ish sensibilities when I was still weeing my pants. Which caused me some subsequent problems at the convent school, I tell you...

MissH, I used the IC OPKs from Amazon for months. I ignored the stupid instructions and used FMU and def did not wait for it to get to the right temp, I just pissed and dipped te stick. Always worked for me

Bugs, I can't do anything to reassure you other than say the way you are feeling is totally normal. I was lucky that I didn't have a full-blown dose of drucks to add to the menkul and I felt the same way. Just take it one day at a time, remember PUPO.

bugs this waiting malarkey is so bloody hard. There is absolutely no way for you to know whether it has worked or not until you test. I don't even think you can go by how you felt the last time you were pregnant, because I've had friends who've had very different pregnancies the second time round. It's not long until Sunday now. You can do this.

Hello nutter I'm not quite getting your girlie crush, a bit too mainstream for me, and a woman of incredibly bad taste (I mean, Brad Pitt, what was she thinking?)

fizz I know less than nothing about lining, but hope the estrogen therapy will help. God it's all so fucking complicated. How the hell did we ever survive as a species? My embryologist told me today that there were days when, hand on heart, she honestly wished she was back working with frog embryos, because they just behaved.

hest you made it, well done. I didn't really rest too much, just carried on as normal apart from having taken the week off work. Didn't do any exercise more strenuous than walking, and made MrG carry my sewing machine around

So that's it, it's all over for this cycle. MrG is on his way to the stag weekend and it's just me and the cats. I feel a bit too calm. I think if I started crying I wouldn't stop, so I'm just not starting if that makes sense.

Options for next time, all of which involve finding shedloads of money:

1. Go straight to embryo donation at a cheapish clinic abroad, with the potential for lots of hassle co-ordinating things between the clinics;
2. Go straight to embryo donation at one of the Spanish clinics that our clinic recommends, at a much higher cost and with an unknown wait time;
3. A self-funded round of IVF with donor sperm; or finally, and probably most expensively
4. A self-funded round of IVF/ICSI with half of my eggs being fertilised by donor sperm and half by MrG's.

Sorry for the epic post.

Arse bugs what day are you? Could it be too early? What brand did you use?

Bugs, GP has the breaking strain of a Kit Kat. Promise me you'll wait till Sunday before testing again, 10dpo is still very early.