TTC for 10 months, and all the rest. 10 plussers welcome.

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New thread full of the most amazing women.

snap I just set up a new one :)

lemon thanks yes I am aware it does depend on dose :)

Lol sorry!!

I actually have 3 pregnyl injections but the first was in the clinic. It's 1500 of something I think? See, clueless.

Hmm I wonder if each one is 1500 or each one is 500. There are 3 vials in the box. Trigger HCG seems about 10000 so either way it's a good bit less than that.

Nelly- cp as in chemical pregnancy?
Last cycle was bang on 28 days so I never did a test... It could be possible, but I'll never know!

No appointment through yet for the specialist, I'm getting impatient for it now!

Dh is away this month right at what should be the crucial time. It's all afs fault for showing up 2 weeks early for no apparent reason!

Hope everyone is okay and having a good week so far?

Oh A new thread, how exciting!

joy I hope you aren't worrying so much after your scan, your next scan is so soon, and when I was getting my IVF pep talk last week the nurse told me that it's ok to breath a big sigh of relief after 8 weeks. (I typo'd that as 8 months, which is probably more true for us ladies who have been through the mill, eh?!)

Sam Big hugs to you re:af I know it's annoying but now you can start a fresh new month and really bug your doctor to find out what the hell is going on! Also, get shagging before your DH goes away - sperm can survive for days in your body so they could just be happily sitting on your uterus waiting for an egg to join them!!

berry glad you are a step closer to getting some answers. It seems like a nightmare and second opinions sound like the right way to go. Good luck tomorrow.

ray so sorry about your late ovulating, it's such a pain in the arse :( Hopefully this month it will be on time and before you've left. If it's really late again could that be good in a weird way since you could OV for when you get back or are you away for a long time?

TrixieRay welcome! I've not been here for long but these ladies are all amazingly supportive and wonderful.

Critter Hooray for hcg going up!! And less than two weeks to go until your scan, it'll fly by in no time.

I'm just waiting around at the moment. Nothing is happening until December, which is probably a good thing what with my rushing around! Trying to not think about "any of it" this month, so instead am planning a romantic break Mr Toes is going to take me on to Venice for my birthday in May. He doesn't know it yet, but he's doing very well with the planning at the moment. It's both beautiful and reasonably priced.

Haha toes, I like your style! I've been looking at holidays today too. It's nice to have something in the pipeline!

Ello, thought had better do a super speedy pre yoga post as I'd rather left a suggestion of possible bfp in the air. Alas this mornings test yielded the faintest of faint lines, fainter than yesterday and practically non existent to the eyes of H though he thought it enough to keep taking the prog. I kind of suspected this would happen with progesterone, like a gut instinct. I've had cps before and presume this is another and I suspect my egg pool just can't throw out what's needed to make it work. I feel oddly detached and not arsed by it, it's a funny feeling. My boobs are still whoppers (for a fox) and no period or spotting but otherwise I feel normal. I'm scared of the period to come though, it's going to be epic sorry no name check, time to go and do some hardcore stretching. Hopefully back later.

Yes CP = chemical pregnancy. Just a thought.

Toes I do like your holiday style. Isn't MrT kind .

Lemon forgot to say earlier I'm glad Lembie feels better. Sorry you're so tired though. That part doesn't fill me with joy but I know it's a small price to pay. Hope you catch up soon. Haha, as if, I bet all the mums are shouting at me. And apologies for the grammatical structure there.

Lovely Fox the hare is right. Keep on with the candles and see what comes of it. It's all so frustrating for you.

Ray have you and the clinic decided if you will go ahead this cycle, or at least try to?

Haha Toes, Venice sounds like a brilliant plan... Isn't Mr Toes good

Thanks for the hugs, the last couple of weeks really did knock me for six (what a strange saying) with all the ups and downs of late af but bfn, but think I'm recovering now... Managed to listen happily to a colleague complaining about her pregnancy symptoms with wanting to cry or hit her! Lol

On to cycle 13... Just want the appointment to arrive so I have a plan.
For now we'll work with stepping up the bedroom action before he goes away! X

By the way Fox, it's interesting what you say about progesterone. It is doing nothing for me in any way. Despite the various drugs I'm on, other than a headache I had yesterday which could have been anything or nothing, I get very few symptoms/side effects. I wonder if that's relevant? I think my body just ignores hormones entirely.

nelly I would imagine it is a lower dose, so won't be in your system for long if you wanted to test before the OTD, when are you back at work ?? Other than the steroids I didn't have any side effects to the progynova or progesterone, I think everyone is different but I don't think it makes much difference to the outcome

sam I did wonder about a CP, its hard to know

foxy honestly when the girls put up their pee sticks on FB I really don't see a line, and as I said before I don't think my line was very strong to start with. Time will tell :)

toes I like your style too, Venice is lovely :) and December is not far off

Barry has come home and thought I had actually cooked dinner umm 'no that is your job dear', I only cook for BB, she eats better than we do

What exactly is a chemical pregnancy? X

sam my first 'period' a couple of months after giving birth was extremely light and I'm pretty certain it was after an annovulatory cycle. The next one was normal (by my weirdo mega long 7 week pre-Pill pre-pregnancy cycle standards). A chemical pregnancy is where the egg fertilises but doesn't properly implant on the uterine wall.

nelly thanks for the new thread! Boo to more injections, but all in a good cause. This time will drag, but the good thing about time is it DOES pass (that has been my mantra this year) and without you having to do anything to make it pass, too!

buzzy is barry a good cook? MrC's repertoire only extends to sandwiches

toes that's so thoughtful of MrToes! Venice sounds perfect, May will be a lovely time to go.

fox I hope the yoga makes you feel better. It does sound like a chemical.

Having a day off here which is really nice. Working on my masters and pottering. I also made cinnamon buns in a hope to encourage more 10 plusser buns in the oven of which I have eaten several.

Sam it's when there is an attempt at implantation and you get far enough along to get a positive test but not to see anything on a scan. Basically it's a very early miscarriage and can be useful to know if you are having them often, as it could mean something like immune treatment might be relevant. It's also however quite common with abnormal embryos, of which there are usually plenty, even in couples who conceive easily.

Haha Critter earlier Mr N heated up some mini baguettes for lunch and I made the same joke. Cinnamon buns sound better though .

Buzzy I'm not sure what to do yet. The only options are test every day from Friday and either see it go down then hopefully up, or not test at all until OTD but not really know whether it's still a false positive, assuming there is a line at all. Unfortunately I'm at work all next week. The test is next Friday so I will work at home that day so at least I don't need to take the call in the office which is what usually happens :( I don't even know where to get a beta HCG done if not with my own clinic.

Blimey you ladies are going to hope I find something non physical to do with my week off, or else I'm going to have the thread filled by the weekend...

nelly would your GP do one for you??? My GP did but she lied on the form as the NHS doesn't like to do it, but my PCT are particularly tight you might have symptoms that will help you decide what to do

actually nelly you might find that one of your 'other' babies lets you know, it was Kayla being nice to me that made me think something had happened and made me test the next morning, just saying

Thanks everyone, so how would I know if u was having them? What signs should I look out for? X

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You often don't Sam you'd only know if you took a pregnancy test that was positive followed by bleeding quite quickly afterwards.

Buzzy that seems unlikely as they are all sulking a little bit that we dared to leave them for a few days (with someone to take care of them of course!). Actually that's not true one of them has been quite unusually attentive today but I blame that on the fact his temporary carer let his food bowl get all the way to empty for a nanosecond before we got home. .

Not sure about GP I could ask, but when I looked at their website it suggested lab results took a week to come back. I'm not sure I could handle that....

nelly a week, depending on what tests you are having it should be either that day or 24 hours,they usually are not keen though so maybe your old clinic is the way to go

Ah ok, well that hasn't happened so far, but there have been a couple of months where af arrived before I did a test so maybe.

My friends cat knew she was pg before she did. He suddenly started sitting on her tummy when she was laying down which he NEVER does usually! X

Thanks for the new thread, nelly.

Critter, the rising hcg sounds like very good news. I agree with others who say 2015 is going to bring so much joy for you. My mum is good with predictions, I don't think it's because she is witchy though but because she is very, very good at reading people and picks up on things without them having to say anything.

Euro, how was the mil visit? Were they enchanted with centime? She looks so deliciously cute, as is mini bee :) I do think 10 plussers babies are at the cuter end of cute babies.

Pout, I do hope you're ok. I've been thinking about you a lot and what you said about lost children. I have a very clear image in my head of my children and it does feel like they are lost to me, let's hope only temporarily.

Cos, are you still in the tent? I'm sort of out of it but only because the af hormones have left me now it's day 3. Somehow things always seem a little better then.

Sam, I suspect you had a whacky cycle just because it's one of those things and nothing more. Hopefully things will get back to normal now. Hi to trixie. The 12 month mark is the hardest phase I think because you still hope each month. It's true that many, many people get pregant by 18months. We've seen it on this thread often.

So, I'm still undecided about whether or not to bother with a scan this cycle. We will be away from days 18-22. In my normal cycle I ovulate on day 16 so that wouldn't work because transfer would be day 18. The last two months I've ovulated on day 20 so that wouldn't work either. But some months if do ovulate earlier, it's so hard to know what to do. Dh thinks we should forget about this month because of the stress of going to scans and then having to go away with a long train journey, being away from home etc the day of or just after et if timing did work. I think he's right, but it's frustrating. I think my clinic will only close 24-26 dec so a dec cycle should be possible.

Ray it's so frustrating. If your clinic will allow (because this is a free round I think?), I'd go for a scan at least once to see what is going on, it might give you a very rough idea. Do they know you have a date conflict? Either way it's so annoying, it's definitely the down side of natural rounds. One of the things that gets so tiring is having to constantly be trying to second guess everything and make excuses why you can't commit to things. especially when it's assumed we will always just fit in around SiL because she has to work around the children

I too am missing Pout and hoping she's ok.

Sam one of my cats does that anyway, one never would in a bunch of Sundays, and one is ambiguous. So it's him I'll watch . except he's so fat he'd squish me and the little pips

Forgot to say I was googling something the other day. And I found this site where the info was seemingly ok. Until it got to the part where it mentioned God and how he'd designed the body so no embryo would fall out . Now I know I'm a complete atheist anyway, but I'm not aware if the part in the bible where god invents IVF .