Roll up! Roll up! Mount those uni cycles and shake those pom poms. The Elderberry Pavlovas are drumming away in the hope of a Christmas clusterdiff (Thread 24).

[happylass]

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.

The roll of honour:

Gillster 40, TTC Feb 2012, IVF Feb 2014 resulting in 6 frozen one day embies. No transfer due to polyp. Failed FET cycle in September due to polyps. Starting 2nd FET cycle on 4 Nov.
Happylass 36, TTC since Aug 2012. Antibodies in DH's sperm. 1 unsuccessful cycle of ICSI September '14. Starting cycle 2 in January.
Smidge, 38, TTC since Jan 2013. Unexplained. IVF#1 Short protocol July 2014 yielded 1 blasto, BFN. IVF#2 in process - Long Protocol Oct/Nov 2014
Serenity 34 TTC Jan 2013, unexplained infertility, DH has textbook super sperm, 3 rounds unsuccessful clomid, 1 ICSI June 14 with complete fertilisation failure, next ICSI Nov 14.
Jelliebabe - 40, Threw the pills away 8 years ago. Unexplained but have a very low AMH, 1st IVF with clinic in Prague, 2 embryo's, chemical pregnancy. 2nd IVF in London branch of clinic - 1 embryo, BFN. Hoping to go back to Prague for Donor eggs in January
nolly, 32, TTC since Sep 2012, unexplained. 6 months clomid did sod all, next appointment 29th Oct, hoping to start private round ivd soon.
Pixie, 33, TTC June 12, DH has zero sperm count but managed to extract some under surgery, start downregging in a week, long protocol, ICSI Nov
Tigerdog 34, ttc 21 months. Unexplained after all tests and currently on waiting list for IVF.
Beaky 34 ttc since aug 2012. Unexplained with recurring cysts and adenomyosis. 1 failed IUI, IVF appointment in November and hoping to start first cycle in January.
Bushy 36, ttc since dec 2011, low amh, ovarian reserve, dh sperm had low count & motility but improved to 'normal' standard, IVF/Icsi in May bfp, then later missed miscarriage at 12 week scan. 2nd Ivf imminent but not sure if dates will work over Christmas.
HampshireBlues 36 TTC since August 2011, unexplained. 1st cycle of IVF chemical. Had a break over the summer. Cycle 2 planned for November
WildflowerMarmalade , 40, TTC 3 years, unexplained, underactive thyroid + immune issues. Sept IUI - BFN. Due to start IVF in Jan
lumen, 35, ttc since Nov 11 without a sniff of a bfp, unexplained, had only nhs funded IVF summer 2014, no implantation, trying self-funded IVF Nov 14, currently mid cycle
AnnieHoo 41, ttc July 2012. Unexplained. MMC Nov 2012, MMC May 2014. IVF Oct 2014 BFN. Waiting for FET.
Trill 41, TTC since March 2013. Endo with one completely blocked tube and one kinked with adhesions. Currently stimming.

And Gil's handy guide to the current IVFers....

Smidge - PUPO on 3 Nov
Pip - ET on 5 Nov
Lumen -EC on 5 Nov
Trill - day 5 of stims
Pixie - week of DR done
Seren - stimming yet?
Gillster- start DR on 4 Nov
Kuma - you starting soon???

Another quick one just to say all the very best for tomorrow spare. Keeping everything firmly crossed for you.
Sorry for the silence ladies. Am full of a cold and had a migraine too today, just to really put the boot in! Normal service will resume soon!

Everything tightly crossed here too for spare and trill if you are poas tomorrow.

Night all, will catch up properly tomorrow. Sweet dreams Berries!

So what do you all think? A line's a line, right? And I tested a day early.
Can I chalk this up as a big fat positive pregnant win?

I'm going to test again tomorrow and if it isn't darker, go for the blood test in the clinic

Aaaah! A line is a line spare so yes that is a bfp! Very exciting! It is a clear line. Really hope this is it for you. Congratulations!

Love a bit of good news in the morning!

Bfp spare!! Definitely a line there! Yay . The boobs definitely were a sign then! Congratulations!

Trill good luck for later if you do test then. Thinking of you.

Yay Spare! I have the tiniest hint of a signal in the Brecons so have been able to keep up. Is this one of the Superdrug tests? I used one of these a couple of months back and it didn't look like your test today.

This also gives me some hope for my own FET as I've been feeling quite negative about it.

Keeping everything crossed for Trill and Pixie too.

Let the clusterdiffing continue...

Woo hoo!! Hurray forspare!! Glad I came on to check. Everything rooted for trill.

Woohoo! So pleased for you spare !! Very very excited! The pressure is on now, eh?! Really hope I can keep the clusterdiff going! I'll be testing tomorrow when I get in from work

Wonderful Spare. Remind me, was it you with the cat that slept on your tummy unusually? I'm collecting 'cats know you are up diffed' evidence.

That was me pip

spare! the infallible wee/boob symptoms!

pip
Trill had the cat omen, but my dog has been a bit clingy in the last few days. She tried to sneak into our bed in the night on Monday and Tuesday nights, which she has never ever done before!
Other than that, I was night weeing, and bursting out of my bras

Yey Spare! That's fantastic news! Clusterdiff clusterdiff! congrats!

Congratulations spare! I'm so jealous! (But with a massive grin on my face for you ) that is such fab news, you must be thrilled! I knew I was right to keep checking my boobs for signs of enlargement.

I have every confidence in trill too given she is testing a day later and as yet no obvious signs of AF.

We will need to redo some stats as I have totally forgotten if you were fresh or frozen, long or short etc. we need some full stats here (acu, vits etc) to work out what to do (other than get a cat!) to improve our chances and join the clusterdiffers in the chopper after Christmas. though I quite like the idea of an excuse to have a cat

Thanks everyone. It hasn't sunk in yet!

smidge I was short protocol mild ivf and icsi. But despite the low dose of drugs, I overstimmed a bit, so they collected 18 eggs and then didn't want to do a fresh transfer because of ohss risk.
First FET didn't happen because they missed me OV-ing and then second nearly didn't happen because all our defrosted embies perished overnight before the transfer. On the morning of the transfer, they defrosted another one and it seems to have decided to stick around!

Yaaaayy! Spare fantastic, fantabulous, brilliant news.

You can't quite believe it?! I can't quite believe we have got a genuine clusterdiff on our hands here! It's three minimum, like serial killers as Pip said. for everyone.

Just reading your summary of how you got here spare , you have really had to keep on and get tough through those tough times. Like when none of the embies survived, that must have been hellish. Well done you.

We've just had a call to say they had 13 eggs for icsi. Of that 10 fertilised and all doing well. I'm so relieved DH and I like each other! Hoorah! The barry white must have worked a charm. So they'll call again tomorrow with an update. One more pixie step along the yellow brick road...

Go little Pixie embies. That is a fantastic result. Feeling optimistic for you, you are male factor, non? Expecting some good results here.

Amazing news Pixie! And a really high fertilisation rate.
When is transfer day? How many will they put back? Come on the clusterdiff!

I don't really know the norm so thanks for the encouragement berries.
Yep WB we've never had any swimmers out until DH had his op 8 wks ago. He's massively pleased as they only needed to use 1 out of 4 ampules they got out of him in the op.
Spare since they're all good quality at the moment they're going to let them grow on and call back tomorrow with an update so I don't have a transfer date yet.
When would we normally get the option to freeze If more than one stays alive? I should have asked clinic earlier but was in shock.

pixie 75% fertilisation rate is considered good for ICSI. We were slightly under that with 11 embies from 18 eggs so yours is really excellent.
Are they taking them to day 3 or blasts (day 5)?
If I hadn't been an ohss risk, they were going to take them all to day 3, put one back and then freeze the rest. I think that is fairly standard? In the end they all got frozen on day one but I don't think it makes much difference in the grand scheme.
How are you feeling post collection? Hope the soreness is subsiding and there aren't any ohss symptoms

fab fab FAB news spare and pixie.

Congrats on your embies pixie, hope they all keep going to get you a lovely transfer and some frosties.

Congrats spare, am glad someone else got their bfp to make the official clusterdiffige per pips definition.

How did they identify your ohss risk spare? Purely down to number of eggs collected/blood levels? Or symptoms you had? I'm just wondering whether they could still do that for me? And not go ahead with ET?
They may go on to blasto stage if still looking good tomorrow. Are the days counted after EC? Ie with EC Mon am I now day 2? So ET either tomorrow (3) or Sat (5)? I'm now feeling a bit dumb...should so have got this clear in my head before now!