The Elderberry Pavlovas are tooling up and making plans to bust out of this joint! Evacuation by helicopter by end of September, no berry left behind!

[barkingtreefrog]

The smallprint –
Berries have a strict entrance criteria (TTC #1, over 30, TTC for 12+ months, NO instadiffers, must have a special pot and definitely no mention of baby dust or baby dancing).
Those not abiding by the rules may be escorted from the premises.

rp I think the FRERs pick up at 10 hcg so would be positive for chloes 12?

The report said the values are positive and it's likely I'm preg but important to retest on Monday. FX the levels go up and it's not too low, but I'll take it as cautiously optimistic.

Now off to hen, such bad timing. My mates will see straight thru any excuse.

Will catch up properly next week when able to concentrate!

Great new Chloe! Have an excellent hen! It's so early that it really is fine to have a glass of bubbles - I did at my hen and only found out a couple of days before. Doc and acu lady both said it would be!

Have a great weekend everyone. I'm off to the middle of nowhere with some mates this weekend so will check in on Monday!

Brilliant news Chloe!! Thrilled for you!
Whereabouts in Wales are you headed Lumen?
DP is away (he left the country just a few hours before I arrived back, brilliant timing!!) so I'm planning a weekend of sleep, sleep and more sleep with a few wedding things thrown in for good measure. Any word from Otters? Her wedding can't be far away now as mine's 5 weeks away and she was a few weeks before me.

Chloe that's (tentatively) fab news. Thanks for the explanation about what I had missed regards the early test

Brilliant chloe glad you're feeling okay, fingers crossed you can sail through the hen undetected!

Hope you have a lovely weekend away feather

I had tentatively good news today, berries. Docs appt this morning and all my swabs have come back A okay, and my ultrasound and dildocam scans are back too. No cysts! My follicles seem to be okay so fingers crossed. Doc agreed to re-run my bloodworks when my period FINALLY kicks in as my first lot were taen on day 23 - up to day 39 today and a BFN, seriously bored of this now...

Yay for chloe and that's good news kitten
lumen Caribbean? St Lucia all the way, that's where we had our futtc holiday. Stayed in an absolutely brilliant all inc hotel called rendezvous booked via Virgin holidays, amazing staff, beautiful grounds, great range of activities. I cannot recommend it highly enough, amaze balls!!

www.theromanticholiday.com best holiday ever!!

Alreet berries! Sorry I've been AWOL this week, have been ridiculously busy after being off for hols. Anyway, tons to catch up on here!

Lumen I am so sorry that you didn't get the right result, gutted for you. Have a lovely weekend with your rents and enjoy your fave tea! I loved Barbados but erm, that's because it's the only place in the Caribbean I've been

barking am hoping everything is going to be sorted for you very soon and those levels will be down to 0. Good luck for your rmc appointment.

Chloe eek, will keep everything tightly crossed for you for Monday too, but a v promising start! I hope the henny goes ok and you manage to stay under the radar! Enjoy wearing those dresses while you can too!

Hb how are you getting on this week? I hope your puppy has been looking after you.

Kitten have you had an HSG yet? That may be the next thing your FC book you in for. Although we had to do questionnaires when we were referred to the IVF unit (welfare of the child forms, they were bizarre! Are you violent, a crim, etc etc!) great that the drs was good news though. Do you usually have long cycles?

Kuma that's so unlucky that it coincides with your only time away. Also, what a rubbish postcode lottery, it's so harsh!

Feather Bushy glad all is going fine for you guys, RP how's things with you? When are all your next scans?

Tiger I totally have the ttc shopaholic thing, I used to loom around the conception aisle in boots and superdrug on my lunch, as if there was a magic product that you would buy and get diffed! Now I just shop online!

Happy welcome back, I bet Italy was lovely although it must have been v.hard work. Fx you don't get AF yet so you get your honeymoon IVF diff!

Hello to Pixie I've only been on this thread since January. Hope things are going in the right direction for you!

Sorry to hear you got AF early serenity did you ring the FC?

Funky I'm here for the Friday night bash if you fancy a wine, what a shit time for you.

Boo to AF being on the way for you too, rain hope you had a nice day with your mam though.

Wild good luck for your FC appointment. I do worry about the pressure also of IVF.

Nolly are you back from hols yet? And Rosie how are you doing?

I think I'll be starting iui in about a week and half, am quite nervous saying that! I can't remember what the nurse said to do now though, I may ring again to double check. It feels like it's been ages to get from that initial appointment to this one.

Hello to anyone else I've missed! Sorry for the mammoth post too

beaky that was a mammoth post, I never remember what everyone is up to to write a post like that!

bushy thx for the suggestion, I will take a look.

Someone asked where I am in wales (sorry awful memory for names) I am in Pembrokeshire. Enjoy your weekend berries

Twas me Lumen. Love Pembrokeshire - beautiful part of the world. Hope the weather stays nice for you. Enjoy!

Beaky great to see you back. Hope you enjoyed your h

enjoyed your hols

Bloody phone!!

Cheers happy

All good beaky except for weirdo discharge. Am 10+4 and 12 w scan on 22nd! Bricking it as the irrational part of my brain ie most of it is convinced something will have gone wrong

Morning all

Well it's a delightful -3' here at the moment so I'm envying you summer!

I picked up my delightful lunchbox full,of drugs. Handed over a whopping amount of cash and am on my way to daily injections

Interesting that you had questionnaires. We just filled in a form and that's it for paperwork.

Chloe - congratulations! That is wonderful news.

Lumen - have a great weekend and just put your feet up and ignore the world.

Barking - best of luck with your appointment.

Kitten - what a horribly long cycle.i hope it's sorted soon and back yo normal.

Kuma - that is one thing I dont miss is the postcode lotteries of the NHS. It seems so unfair.

Feather, Bushy, RP - how are you all trundling along? All well I hope.

Tiger - I'm so glad to see I'm not the only one bulk buying stuff. I have so many OPKs

Oops posted too early

Beaky- best of luck with the iui

Funky - have a wine (or 3) for me

Rain - enjoy your day out with your mum. Ignore the impending AF. Dorks for me.

Wild - in regards to stress,infertility and ivf etc has similar stress levels as having a close relative die or being diagnosed with a serious illness so you can be as stressed and worried as you like.

Apologies to anyone I left out. I hope all is well in your world.

Ooooh chloe that sounds very promising! A tentative congratulations from me and wishing you loads of luck for Monday.

Hey beaky hope your week hasn't been too stressful. Exciting that iui is only a week or two away and hoping that this will be it for you!

happy do you have loads to do for your wedding still or is it all nearly there. When in August is it? We need to sort ourselves out and plan our wedding!

feather have a lovely time in the middle of nowhere!

bushy I so want to go to St Lucia! Looks amazing! lumen you should definitely go!

serenity hope all goes well with starting the drugs. The things we put ourselves through eh?!

Up early because we have a foster hound this weekend and thought I had better let them out. Cue boisterous zoomies up and down the garden for at least 5 minutes - couldn't get them back in! Going to walk them then head to yoga.

Have a lovely day all!

at dorks serenity! Time for you to become a ttc substance abuser, you feeling ready for it all?

chloe more tentative congrats from me, come on Monday!!

tiger enjoy yoga - I am so inflexible, I'm hopeless at it!

lumen I hope you're faring ok today. We have a futtc holiday booked for September - cannot WAIT! We're going to Mauritius. I've only ever been to Cuba in the Caribbean but it was totally amazing, not as luxe as the other islands but still totally fab (and a lot cheaper!! )

beaky it's the final countdoooown! Excited for you, please let this be the ticket out of here for you.
I've also been wondering where lovely otters is - hope you're ok missy!

rp gosh, not long to go!! How've you been other than the discharge? Feeling ok?

I have PIMMed this morning (I don't have a pot, I use a camping mug!) as we're off to a day festival and I want to know if I'm allowed some lots of beer. BFN, of course. Bah humbug.
I dreamt we decided to go ahead with a private IVF cycle last night and now I'm awake I feel stressed that we're going to have to wait till next year. Perhaps we need to revisit the idea of doing one now, or perhaps I need to ignore my stupid PMT misery.

Oo Rain that's obv your subconscious telling you something! enjoy your festival, am tres jel, we are installing a new bathroom... Although I may nick off to the shops! Sorry about the bfn though.

Yes also wondering about Otters here, it must be nearly wedding time?! Shine the Berry signal for Otters

Wow RP that 12 weeks seems to have gone really quick! To me anyway, probably not to you!

Tiger I'm channeling Marshall off himym and only saying positive things about work, so, it was lovely to see some of the other staff members! Haha. I've ordered Eckhart Tolles book too it looks very woo-y though. So sweet that you do dog fostering! My puppy is a bit snappy around other ones so I don't think I could do it. She's 14 this week too! Enjoy your yoga this morning!

Serenity good luck! Are you long or short protocol?

Happy do you have much left to do for your wedding? At least you will have more time when you break up for the last bits and pieces. The hol was lovely too, thanks.

Drilling has begun may sneak out now! Have a lovely day everyone!

[beaky] ooh no idea. 5 days of gonal f then dildocam. Then some thing else I can't remember.

Eeeeek chloe keeping my fingers crossed for you!

Hi everyone!

Who's Marshall beaky?

St Lucia was amazing, Mauritius is lovely too ( but more expensive!) we went there for our honeymoon, happy days!! I think a futtc holiday should be an essential for everyone.

I've finally painted my toe nails and am letting them dry watching Dolly Parton at Glastonbury, only just getting round to watching it now! She's fab, not sure how she could play the guitar and her other instrument with those huge nails though!! BBQ later, hope the rain stays away.

Good luck with the jabs serenity!

Sorry it's taken me a while to post again! I've been spending my spare moments trying to catch up on the thread to make sure I get to know you all but my phone is lame (due for upgrade) and it takes forever.

You are all going through so many ups and downs, the anticipation of '...what happens next' in your stories made me properly emotional and anxious! but also makes me feel reassuringly normal. sorry to hear of all your problems and hope it'll come through for you soon.

As for me, I'm 33 and we've been TTC since June 12. started tests "just in case" after TTC for a year and after 6 mths found out that DH has no fish in his ratatouille . The GP was pretty unhelpful in a 'that's the end of that' way (which is the point I cumbled, stopped MN and generally anything interesting in my life) but GP eventually referred us to FC. NHS criteria is stringent and so because of my high BMI (weight sky-rocketted over this period) we're not eligible so have gone private.

After another 6 mths of tests we have a bit more understanding of DH's issues and it seems that he is likely producing swimmers but they're not able to get out. so now we are en-route to extraction for him, hopefully Sept, and then ICSI. So next week we have our consultation with nurse about that. So the good news for now is that all is not lost although we'll know bit more after DH's procedure.

Oh Pixie you sound like you've had a right time of it, but I'm so pleased for you that you guys have found a way forward. Everything crossed for you for September! Glad you have come back too, these ladies are second to none at support and laughs!

Bushy Marshall is from the programme how I met your mother, he hates his job but is trying to only say positive things about it! Hope you've enjoyed your BBQ and not missed your cider too much also that holiday looks amazing but wowzer it's expensive!

Serenity have you started jabbing now? Good luck!

Hi Bunny how are you getting on? How far along are you now?

Sorry you've had a tough time of it Pixie but glad things are moving in the right direction for you. There are quite a few of us having treatment from September onwards so you will be in good company.
Tiger the wedding is August 18th. Is yours booked yet? All the big stuff is sorted but I'm DIYing the on the day stationary and decor so still lots to do there. But, as Bushy said, I'm off work from next Friday so will have a fair bit of time then.
Hope the jabbing has got off to a good start Serenity and hope those hcg levels are rising nicely Chloe
Right it's getting late. Night all.