TTC 10 months plus, supporting each other and staying positive. Another BFP one of course :-)

[victoria401]

New thread for the rest of us to get our BFP's on, by whatever means!!!

Ladies thank you all so much! I just look forward to all of you getting your bfp now, it's so surreal! It will happen, never stop believing x

Congratulations Mama! I was TTC for 16 months before my BFP in December (am now 18+5) and remember reading your posts on the busses. So happy to see you finally got your two lines!

Mama I just heard!!! CONGRATULATIONS!!!!

Bloody marvellous news am getting quite teary am a hormonal old bag hearing of you so well deserved and much loved BFP. For the journey you have been on, hopefully this is the reward and the start of a new one.

Penis Dragons Rule!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Westcountrygirl yes I remember you also, so happy to hear your progressing well and thank you x

Kitty! Well....whats going on with you my love?!!! fill me in?! Thank you so so much! You were such a gem on the buses really!!! And I'm so appreciative to see all you girls come on here to congratulate and wish me well, it's just so lovely! I am completely and utterly still in shock, and have been totally incompetent in work I just can't focus!!! Some time over the wkend for it to sink in will be great :) thank you again, chat soon xx

Yay congratulations Mama wonderful news! So pleased for you, gives us all a renewed sense of hope! Xxx

Thank you Laura, I'm so glad to hear that! I know especially on this thread when there's been a bfp it has given me hope so I really hope that you get that from mine!

Seems strange that I started this thread and will be leaving it! But I won't be a stranger, I just have to check in to see you all get your bfp's as well!!! And you will, I know it!!!! Stay positive! X

After that flurry of excitement last week has died down I can reveal my news...

Went for my baseline scan for iui last weds. My lining was at 4.5mm and I had a follicle measuring 11.5. In order to proceed with iui treatment I needed to have no follicles bigger than 10mm and a lining of less than 4mm. Therefore I failed the pre-treatment criteria and cannot have iui this cycle :-(

Oh no, that's rubbish vic! Did they say what could have caused the big follicle and if there's anything you can do to avoid it for next month?

I had a job interview today, it went reasonably well I think and the job sounded really good, but I don't think I could make it work even if they offered it to me as it would be full time rather than my current 3 days a week, and include a 2-hour commute each way...

Urgh metal 2 hour commute is no fun at all. You have people at home to spend your time with not sat in car/bus/train. Do you need the full time hours rather than part time?

No reason given whatsoever for the the follicle. Well, the nurse said it could be recruited already for this cycle but on cd3?! I don't ov until at least cd14 or later! Reading up it might even be left over from last month. Several other ladies who have had follicles on cd3 have said that they had gone a few days later and they started treatment later. I did have really painful ov last month lasting 5 or 6 days so maybe it was some kind of super follicle/cyst thingy causing me the pain and left a corpus luteum for longer?! Who knows. Anyway, no adive given, just call us on your next cd1 and thet'll book me in again for a cd3. I have decided that even though we are booked to go on holiday abroad next cycle I will phone up anyway. I have realised that time is too precious (and i'm curious to see what my follicles and lining are up to). If my calculations are correct I will be on the 2ww when we go away so will just be taking progesterone pesseries. I can put them in my bag. Sorted.

Hm, that does seem a bit strange. Hopefully you'll have better luck next month, and can then forget all about the 2ww on your holiday!

I don't really want to work full time, but there are not many part time jobs advertised so I thought I'd just apply for full time and if I'm offered anything try to negotiate. No point getting ahead of myself anyway, they'll probably turn me down for not having any direct experience or something along those lines...

Mama I'm so happy for you both, congratulations on your amazing news. You are a true inspiration to us all and have shown that we can never give up!

Vic-gutted your follie was too big but at least you hadn't started your injections yet. Fingers crossed for next round. Annoying it's yet another cycle

Well AF didn't arrive for me last Thursday 2 weeks post IUI as expected. BFN on 15dpo, started spotting then AF arrived with a vengeance on Saturday :( I've been an exhausted hormonal bitch the last two weeks so I'm relieved to feel normal again. Those progesterone pessaries are not to be underestimated!

Anyway, had cd5 scan today so started last and final third round of IUI. Will be rescanned Friday, insemination hopefully next Monday. The clinic have filled out my referral forms for IVF if needed, just need our signatures. If this one fails, it's only a two week wait to go to the IVF clinic. Feeling fed up and frustrated with everything on hold, trying hard to be positive with it all but always have hope.

fx third times a charm metal. sorry about AF.

Vic definitely no need to put it on hold and a holiday in the tww sounds a fab plan! hope ur managing to keep ur dh off the fags and on the vits OK!

Thank you non! And good luck for next iui, I hope it's the one! X

Vic sorry the iui couldn't go ahead, hoping next month it works out for you x

Thanks all.

Sorry about af non fingers crossed for next month hun x So do progesterone make you crazy?! Would I be a crazy person on pesseries?! On my much awaited holiday?! Will I be evil in sunny paradise?!

I didn't have mood swings on the pessaries Vic, just huge boobs and constipation! although the later was better when I changed to doing them vaginally instead of rectally.

Hang on a minute non your clinic scan you on day 5? Mine does day 3. Is it any wonder my lining hasn't gone under 4mm when I'm still bleeding?! And if it was a follie left over from last cycle it might have been smaller/gone at cd5...

Good luck non, hopefully it's third time lucky for you!

Oops, still getting used to how Mumsnet works - sometimes I get emails and sometimes I don't so I hadn't realised how many posts I'd missed in here since commenting a few pages back - so pleased to read your news, mama, congrats!!

I'm on 13 DPO now and still no sign of a BFP (or even a Little Thin P for that matter :D) so I'm much less confident that this is my cycle but still very pleased to have O'd so maybe I'll get another chance soon!

Sorry about your AF, non, fx for next time

Thankyou Roxy and good luck to you for your bfp soon x

Vic- Yes, I've always gone on cd5 and started injections that day. They did say they normally scan between cd3-5. My lining was 4.8 and follies less that 10mm. I had no side effects on my first round with the pessaries, only in second round so your holiday will be hormone angst free hopefully. I did ask for the pessaries, they weren't given to me as routine so you may not even be offered them. Our bodies are such weird things at time!

I think there are pesseries as standard in my regime non I might have to find the handout to make sure I didn't make that up though! So your lining was 4.8, why was mine deemed too thick at 4.5? Most confusing why all the clinics are so different. Can't believe you would have had all 3 of your iui in the space of me waiting for my first! You poked your nose into the iui thread? Lady on there is refusing to believe she's got a pos test result, thinks it must be the trigger still in her system. The lady with the hubby's frozen sperm after cancer.

Hi all x

Didn't know there was an IUI thread, I think the first one I was on became stagnant. I did test with my cheap internet tests after trigger just to see if they work and what they look like as positive. Fingers crossed for that lady, I was told it takes about 10dpiui to get out of your system. I think it was 4.8, have had so many figures don't know if I made that one up now!!! I have to say my clinic have been amazing and all the fertility nurses are lovely, fingers crossed for your next round Vic x

Oh could have sworn you were on the iui thread! Sometimes I ask you questions!

Had horrible dream last night that all my workmates were announcing they were pregnant! Then we were all away at some kind of youth hostel thing and as I got there a bit late all the beds were taken and I was told I had to spend the night on a bit of sponge on the floor in the hall! I was shouting "i can't do this, I'm 35 years old!"

I don't want to cross-post because I just commented on the April bus I wonder if anybody here can advise... We had a faint BFP last night but 2 BFNs today, does that mean that the BFP was definitely wrong or is there any hope at all?

No idea roxy ic's are notorious for not being very accurate though. I see you are getting plenty of response on April bus though :-) good luck with a frer.

Entering fertile week, the sun is shining, the birds are mating in the trees (!) my rat survived her operation, life is good :-)