Eggcellent egg buddies - a thread for all those IVFing in January, February and March - Volume 2

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Hi all. As promised, a sparkling new thread that is going to see a lot of action in the next few weeks, I hope!

Wannabe, those tests are confusing! But they are conception indicators. Do it means 1-2 weeks from conception.

Sorry to read many of you are feeling low and/or pissed off. It's all such an awful roller coaster. I'm praying for one of those 'miracle' Silverton pregnancies....

Woo hoo Bugs! So pleased it was good news. I would definitely recommend getting back to work. It will take your mind off it! I know that if I was at home now full time I would stress myself out completely about everything. Do you have another blood test? Or a scan? X

Stars - re Silverton - married in 2010, DD born 2011 - looks as if got married to start a family to me - no way they could have fitted in 4 cycles!

Personally I always love seeing women having babies over 40. G

Excellent news bugs!! Delighted for you and your DH.

Good on them! Hopefully I will be one of those women in a couple of years. I'm a believer in 'miracle pregnancies' after conceiving my DS through a missed pill. I feel like I have a little miracle inside me right now. I just hope it sticks!!

Res and Stars - my apologies. Didn't read the earlier posts you guys had written about Kate Silverton. I just read in the news that it was all natural and I quite like hearing stories like that cos they are so few and far between. No
offence meant - can understand how you feel. X

Thanks brooker. How are you hun?

Bad, it's not silverton that's annoying (I'm 41, 42 this year) but it's the way the article is written. It says 'we'd almost given up giving our daughter a sibling when our daughter was 2, when we got pregnant!' Given up after 2 years??! Ive been trying for a sibling for 3 years! I wouldn't be giving up at all if I had more money!!! Maybe I'm just bitter

That's brilliant news bugs and a nice high number.

I love stories of natural pregnancies after IVF, because if this one works out, I cannot see myself ever getting back on the hell that is the IVF treadmill, so it is the only way we would end up with more than one. There was a thread elsewhere on the site the other day entitled Almost immaculate conception, where a woman had tried for 6 years and had several rounds of IVF to have her first baby and had just found herself pregnant after a single sh@g! I completely agree that the "they just relaxed" stuff is hideously annoying though.

Bad - none taken - I had (my only) one over 40 - the longer this TTC business goes on with no success, the more of a 'miracle' she is!!!

I think I just over-analyse these days when I hear about such things. 5 years ago, I would have thought 'oh, that's nice' and moved on to the next story but it's now the potential for false hope that annoys me. It reads that she and DH were together for 2 years before getting married in late 2010 and producing DC1 in late 2011. Now she's due DC2 in mid-2014. Their marriage must be a rock - 4 failed IVF cycles and 2 pregnancies in 5.5 years would have ruined me and DH!

Bad! No offence taken. I like hearing positive stories from people who have struggled too. (But am feeling very raw after my last cycle) it's great she's got lucky again, but I am jealous that it's not me!!

Res, me too. I wonder how my DS even happened. He really IS a miracle.

Euro, it's a hideous roller coaster to be on and whilst dh and I are solid, we always end up hating each other at some point in a cycle and it takes some getting back to normal between each one. Let's hope you are one of the lucky ones following DC1 and have a natural miracle too. I do know a fair few people from another forum who even had donor eggs for their first and had a natural second one!! It does happen. Just not to me!

For some reason I find the idea of Kate Silverton shoving bullets up her arse highly amusing

Wannabe LOL!!!!

Oh my God, I'm on day 10 of buserelin for down regging and I'm sure I've ovulated. Surely this isn't supposed to happen when I'm down regging. Today is CD18 and I'd normally ov today, I've had EWCM and ov pain. Is this usual?

Maybe I should do an ov test.

Congrats Bugs!!!!

Congrats bugs!

Turquoise it's probably just the drugs causing weird and strange effects - have a word with the clinic maybe?

Between my hard boiled eggs and dh's misshaped sperm my ds is a total miracle, a miracle with a bad attitude but a miracle nonetheless.

I told my best friend on Monday about the ivf and ivf failure and she has had a strop because I didn't tell her before! I haven't heard from get since! Next time I won't bother telling anyone anything.

I got a bfn yesterday on a first response - they are 98% accurate 3 days before you're period. They must detect hcg at very low levels. I was 8dp3dt yesterday.

Plus just a general feeling that I've had from the start that ivf won't ever work for us. I've stopped my drugs now anyway!

Glad it worked out for you x x

One - people are weird and egocentric. I used to live in London and moved because, shock, I wanted to move. One friend never forgave me and we haven't spoken since!

Res and Stars - phew - glad I did not offend!

One - so sorry, my dear. I'm sure that with a higher stims dose you will get a better result, but only if YOU feel like putting yourself through it again.

Turquoise - I had exactly the same fear as you and phoned up the clinic, I was so convinced I had ovulated. A slightly patronising nurse told me that the reason they used Buserelin was to stop ovulation and that I definitely would not ovulate until after the trigger injection. And she was, of course, right!

Wannabe - ha ha. Whenever I now hear of famous people doing IVF I shall imagine just that! I remember looking at pics of celebrities just after they had given birth and imagining their piles, stretch marks and sore fanjos as well two years ago. Glamorous - not!!

Bad, phew glad someone else had the same fear! I've sp

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