funky I love the typos! Feeling ok really. Big day tomorrow. Think the 2 weeks after that will be tricky,how are you coping lady? Tmi here, I have to do my progesterone up the back door, or 'bum bullets' as I think bunny called them- lol my ass off!! It's obv better to do them post bowel movement in AM. Anyway, been a bit slow of a morning 'getting going' so to speak, so have been experimenting with coffee to get things going, dear me so glamorous! Had the opposite problem yesterday where I'd done my suppository (ick) and then got horrendous cramps, needing to go to the toilet,tried to avoid it but had to ,so it'd only been up there for an hour and a half and believe me it surely would have ,ahem, disappeared , lord knows what I ate!!
Anyhow, whilst I'm over sharing 
, has anyone here bothered with sex with dh in between ec and et? Not that I really feel like it but we won't be for another 2 weeks after et and maybe more. The nurse kindly said to me when I asked when we should abstain pre ec that 'he can help himself' lol! 
viperama the whole stress thing is a tricky one! I think stress affects our whole being:bowels, breathing, headaches etc so why wouldn't it affect ttc but I think you're right in saying the reason conception often happens more when on holiday or relaxed is because there's more sex happening. In Emma cannon's total fertility book ( quite a good read) she says the one factor that will increase your chances is having lots of sex, it's overlooked so often but that is the one thing that will help. Seems obvious doesn't it. Obviously if you have issues like your tubes aren't the greatest, sperm not great etc then that won't help that much nor will 'relaxing'. I just think some of us need more help. We've worked on my egg quality as I have low amh and dh had low count and motility and we've worked on that too and it seems they're alright and getting on ok in the Petri dish of lurve, they just really needed help to get together- my tubes couldn't speed them along and my dh's swimmers needed a rest half way there!
happy it's so difficult isn't it when everyone else is cooing and asking questions etc but no fear it WILL be you soon. My pg colleague is inevitably turning staff room conversation to babies but at the mo I can deal with it as I feel we're getting closer to it myself. I love the term 'baby bombing'.
For all those off to baby showers et al I hope you can dodge all the loaded baby ttc questions people seem to think are fine to ask when you're at these things. I feel a big sense of relief when I've successfully navigated my way round them and avoided them!