The Berries: The one where The Berries cease to exist after a spate of waxy knicks and a'hem seepage (thread 20)

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The smallprint –
Berries have a strict entrance criteria (TTC #1, over 30, TTC for 12+months, NO instadiffers, must have a special pot and def no mention of baby dust or baby dancing UGH !!! Ooooh aren’t we strict!

feather what a wedding present!!!!! Positive thoughts all the way, try not to menkal pot calls kettle

happy me me me me me!!! As we were walking today DH randomly started singing 'follow the yellow brick road'. How much of a sign is that?!?!? [Hmm]

Thanks all you lovelies. Berry power to one and all. Think I need to lie down now.

merk will hold off on the chopper for now - really want to go but need to make sure this bean is in the right place.

Feather!!! Congratulations! THIS IS AMAZING!!

Blimey I spend a little while away from mn and boom, cluster diff!!!!! Congrats rp and feather. Does that mean you will have an alcohol free hen do this weekend?

So happy for you lovely ladies we all deserve two lines and sticky beans.

I still have two weeks on my dr drugs before I start stimming but AF finally turned up today so all on track hopefully last AF for 9 months

Have had visitors the past few days and I feel like I have been a bad hostess, have been grumpy and sleepy (no others dwarves) and not great company. Couldn't mention treatment as they are dh's family and he does not want them to know

F.E.A.T.H.E.R !!!!

OMG!!

How crazy is that! Congrats IF everything works out for both of us, we will have almost exactly synchronic pregnancies! Insane.

Keeping everything crossed that yours is where it should be, and they both stick!!!

Lumen, yes, it is always a massive hospitality failure when you have no other dwarves.

OMG! Feather! Congratulations. This is amazing. This is the best bunch of pg announcements ever. Definitely much better than in RL. I'm keeping everything crossed that all beans are sticky, in the right place and generally well.

Barking, I would normally say try to be patient but maybe you should get POASing too?? (This is the euphoria of the clusterdiff speaking)

Rain, I am sorry you are feeling down. Barking's advice sounds good. And thanks for asking. Am feeling slightly better, have started to see friends again for lunch/ dinner so am coming out of hiding a bit.

Beaky, good to hear you are feeling better. Tiger, good luck with the job interview. Beaky is right, it sounds like it would be good for you. Earlier on the thread there was a discussion about how ttc has made a lot of us lose sight of ourselves and how planning ahead has meant putting all sorts of things on hold. So maybe pursuing a new opportunity is exactly what you need not to get into this situation?

Chloe, how did the scan go? It's EC on Friday right?

Haha, RP, you have the best sense of humour ever - you should teach me. Not being British I really struggle with this.

lumen, it must have been difficult for you over the weekend. Well done for getting through it - even without the dwarves.

Congratulations feather great news
What an amazing cluster diff!!!

Omg this is amazing news feather! Can you remind me of your story? :-D

Btw it's so early, you wouldn't expect the line to be darker!

barking step away from the gu pot...it's too early!

Thanks rp and rosie! Glad you're feeling a bit better rosie - and I have everything crossed for future Berrie bfps soon.

rp if it all works out then our synced pregnancies would be NUTS.

Sorry I'm all 'me me me' tonight all. Will write properly tomorrow when I can see straight. Thanks for all your congrats and kind wishes. I know every Berrie will get their bfp eventually - and remember: if this pregnancy is in the right place, and nothing terrible happens, then just KNOW that if it can happen to me, the Berrie with one Fallopian tube, that did nearly a year of clomid, that didn't ovulate, that has pcos, and a tube that had an ectopic in it just last November, then it can happen for every one of you.

Ps. Thanks kitty and foody!!

Wooooooohooooooo! Well done Feather! Joins in the a line is a line is a line dance.

Berry HQ is going BFP crazy! So pleased Feather and RP

Beaky glad you are feeling a little brighter today. Nothing like a Berry BFP to lighten the mood!

Bushy that is so uncool of your DH and I hope he changes his mind. Worst case scenario you will need hand holding and the more likely scenario you will want your DH there to see the magical moment that you see your babies heart beating on the screen in front of you. He can't miss either.

Tiger moving jobs is stressful, particularly when it involved relocating. It's a shame that your current job is the most baby friendly one when you don't enjoy it.

Rain plan something lovely for your edd and don't sit at home and wallow. I went t a family party for my first one and it very much helped take my mind off things.

Barking I may well take you up on the dog sitting for a year! He's very lovely and well behaved! DH goes at end of Jan 2015!

Hope sniffing going to plan for lumen and chloe

Can I just check in quickly to ask..... Berries who have been here before..... Is it normal to feel quite, er, juicy down there?

I keep thinking it must be bleeding and dashing to the loo, but it is totally clear. Is that okay?

Very ok rp, pantyliners are now your friend!

Arr feather!!!!! You've brought tears to my eyes. Go berry power go!!!! Crikey have one night out and come back to 3 new pages! Always know something's gone down when that happens!! Yay!!

funky thank you for your words! you've put it in such a way that shows me and hopefully him why it's so important. I just don't know if I'll be able to wait to see if he comes round or just say look I want you there. Think it might be the 2nd.

Something's in the water at berry hq keep em coming ladies!! Clusterdiff!!!

RP totally normal

So I disappear for a day or so and there's only a big fat clusterdiff happening!

RP Congratulations! Amazing handiwork!

feather Congratulations, what a great wedding present!

When you're both ready to join the chopper, budge up a bit and make space for the rest of us. Maybe it's contagious!?

I'm so excited about all this berry good news, more so than RL announcements!

OK so I have a lot to catch up on...

rosie Sorry you're having a hard time at the moment. Don't be too hard on yourself, you have a crazy amount going on and just one of those things would be enough to stress most people out. Thinking of you (and love your name BTW!) For me it helped realising we would probably not have a natural BFP, as I felt it brought more certainty that the next stage would be more likely to make a difference. Not sure if that makes sense. Nothing stays the same for too long and after the hard times will come the good days again.

barking Good luck with your IUI and sorry you're struggling with the acupuncture at the moment. I had my first woo needles (to use a nollyism!) on Tuesday. nolly You crack me up and your comments have made me giggle on many occasions! Am not in the UK so no fertility network over here that I know of. The lady I went to specialises in women's health and IF though.

funky NZ sounds like a great opportunity for your DH, but it's a shame how problematic travelling will be with your health issues.

bunny and bushy Thanks for your advce on embryo transfers, always good to hear other people's thoughts and advice who've been there first hand.

Posting in batches before the IPad deletes everything as per usual...

tiger Am glad your interview went well. Fingers crossed it works out for you! I definitely need to read the chapter in the book you mentioned!

bushy Glad you got yor scan booked in. Remind me what date it is again, is hard to keep up!

barking Are you not tempted to POAS there's a clusterdiff going on don't you know! (TBH I'm in the leave it as long as possible school of thought. Have only ever done 2 in nearly 2 years of trying. Is that a berry record!?)

For all those I've missed off, I'm sorry but the thread is moving too fast to keep up!

So I am up in the middle of the night after somebody kindly rang the doorbell at 2am and I can't get back to sleep!

Had my 3rd US on Wed, thanks to barking and rosie for remembering! Good news and bad news...

Good is that I have 20 growing follies, 15 left (!) and 5 right. They were still a little too small, about 15-16 mm so had to stim and orangutan last night for an extra day. EC is planned for Saturday now, 3 days later than planned originally.

Not so good news - the dc has said we need to consider delaying ET and freezing the embies. He said we have a good chance of getting pregnant, but because of my PCO he is worried I am at risk of OHSS and will end up in hospital if I get updiffed (apparently OHSS is more likely when pregnant). The clinic basically advises you not to transfer if you have more than 20 eggs retrieved and I am right on the limit.

TBH I was actually quite relaxed when he told me. Before we went ahead with the IVF he told me this may well happen in my case. It would anyway only put things back a few weeks - he said we can go ahead with the ET 2.5 weeks later. Also the clinc has a slightly higher success rate with FETs - he thinks it's to do with the fact that the delay makes a better lining for implantation.

Sooo, trigger shot tomorrow and then we will discuss on Sat whether to go ahead or not. I think in my own mind I have already decided to delay. I have kept everythin a secret from work and really don't want to end up in hospital for the sake of a few weeks' wait.

chloe hope things go as you want on Sat.

Sorry to take away your crown but I have been ttc for over 2.5 years and no pimping have just always waited for AF and she has always turned up

Only had time over the last couple of days to swing by and add congratulations, so just wanted to say am so, so happy for you bushy, winoh Feather and RP. It's just the most cheering thing when berries get diffed, you've all had a tough time and (from a selfish point of view, and as feather said) it gives hope that it's possible after all… Just beaming here! I hope the anxiety for you all is receding to acceptable levels… totally understandable but at least only another 20 years or so to go ;)

chloe hope everything goes well on Sat. you sound v calm and in a good place.

tiger good luck with job! I was following the kids in London chat with interest, because practically everyone I know moved out in order to have kids. Madness I thought - kids and therefore parents have much more independence and stuff to do in a big city.

I expect everyone thought you were charming and delightful as per 1950s hostess lumen! love the dwarves.

guys can i ask abotu the sniffing? is it like how posh people take coke? i always imagined Nigella with a tiny ivory spoon sniffing delicately in taxis. dont' know why the taxis.

bushy what funky said…

11dpo here. concealing a serious bout of madness from an uncaring world, more or less successfully. How're you doing barking?

waves to happy, lady, boodle, bunny, rain, otters… and anyone else I've missed.

chloe it sounds sensible to wait the 2.5 weeks if that's all you'd need to do to reduce the risk. Good number of eggs though!
Yes I was stupidly tempted to pimp after the cluster diff excitement. So far a bfn last night and another this morning. Only 10dpo though. It's like I wanted to punish myself. I'm going insane. I said to DH this morning 'is it only Thursday?' and he muttered something about swimming on Tuesday, and then about the holiday feeling long? Then when he realised what I was talking about he said 'oh I forgot.' Oh for it not to be the very first thing you think about as you wake up and the only thing consistently playing on your mind all day.