We are jolly well going to have the number of babies we want and we will BROOK NO ARGUMENT. Join us if you refuse to take "no" for an answer and like smacking rats.

[Imps9]

We will get there. We will all of us get there. And we will brook no argument.

So I have gained 3 more follies. Only 5 (or 4) are over 12mm, have quite a lot hovering around the 8/9mm mark and the rest are about 6 or 7mm. Still a fair amount of growing to do and - happily - the nurse thinks that EC will be towards the end of next week, thus avoiding work seminar clash.

Wombat lining is looking really good at 11.5mm (they want to see 8mm or more).

Bless Mr I - I texted him to tell him about the follicle and his response was "are the follicles the things that make the embryo stick?". He is a ridiculously clever chap but seriously - give me strength!

Oh and apparently I have a retroverted uterus. Wonder if this is something for my CV?

Brilliant news Imps!!! Grow follies, grow!!! I too have a retro womb bless MrI

No symptoms=diffed Sparks

OMG they are the clearest symptoms a woman could have Sparks!! Congratulations!!!

Just had a call from the nurse - they're upping my Gonal-F from 112.5 to 125 as my oestrogen is not quite as high as they'd expect. Eeek come on hormone levels do something!

Sparks, there is no need to test, you are so clearly diffed!

Imps, your hormones are going great guns, worry not lovely x

Sparks I have been ill all through this pregnancy, just caught another cold so you are clearly diffed as diffed can be.

Just popping in as there is a new thread so don't want to lose you and need to be around for imps' BFP. (I'm not TTC again yet, maybe at the end of the year.) Who is going to do the gymnastics for that wonderful day as imps will be in the family way?! Delighted that the scan was so good but I would be unimpressed at the water stealing colleague. Did you buy her her own jug?

molotov, how lovely to see a new Brooker. Fresh blood! Well, as much as you can deliberate, being a Brooker does guarantee a BFP so the choice has already been made! You are one of us now!

pasta, sorry you are still vomiting. You know that I know how you feel! I will all be worth it and forgotten about very very soon!

sparks, and you are TTCing as well! How exciting! You are clearly diffed as well. At work, I always say that buying bread rolls instead of a loaf is as good as PIAR possibly.

maybe and imps, we can all be retroverted uterus buddies together. Apparently anterior placentas are slightly more common, which sounds about right for me (3:1).

Beedles, good luck for your injections too. When are they expecting EC for you?

Could we be on for another Tripe Whammy? Or even a Quadruple Whammy? (For the benefit of molotov, we have had two particular days as Brookers that will go down in history: Double Whammy day and Tripe [triple] Whammy day. I've taken part in both of those days but am happy to pass over the mantle to another Brooker.)

In fact, feeling all nostalgic, I've gone to hunt down the threads:

Day of the Double Whammy

Day of the Tripe Whammy - makes me cry every time I read it! It also made me so pleased that cartoon has got her lovely DS after everything she's gone through.

keep, sorry about the job. Hope the right one comes along very soon. far, good to see you too! Sounds like you have got some wonderful RL friends supporting you with the whole thing.

cartoon, are you returning to TTC soon, do you think? Will you back to see the same doctor or will your GP be able to do things in terms of medication based on last time?

hinky, I totally agree with you about it all not being like it is on TV. One of my best friends has decided to have a baby, stopped her pill and then got pregnant that month on 3 occasions now. She's then made all the arrangements for her maternity leave etc straightaway. I am so glad that nothing has gone wrong of course, but I am envious of people who can live in that lovely blissful ignorance. I don't think I even had that before we lost a baby, but it has turned pregnancy (which at the best of times, I'm really not great at!) into a bit more of an ordeal!

Oh gosh, that was supposed to be a quick hello and ended up a wee bit longer! Right, better go and chat to DH, I suppose, rather than spend the rest of the evening with us both typing on our laptops!

Dino!!!!!! It's so lovely to see you!! How are your beautiful family? Any luck with the move? (I've left the Facebook, so can't keep up). TTC later this year!!! Squeeeeeee

I had a posterior placenta (which is lucky as not feeling movements soon on would have given me even more to worry about)

Pasta, how are you feeling now? Dino is totally right, all will be forgotten as soon as Orzo is here.

How is stimming going Beedle and Imps?

Hi Dino, thanks for the lovely welcome and those links. Havent read them yet but will do over the next couple of days!

I had a dream last night that we had another baby girl: she was really tiny and just popped out! No hard, long labour and no CS (bit of wishful thinking?) It was a nice dream. She was a pretty little thing and I named her the name that I wanted to for dd1.

How's everyone doing today?

And yes, Imps, I get what you're saying about regret.

Hello lovelies - please may I join in.

Was on this thread 3 years ago (under a different name) for a little bit and now have a DS who is just 2. I also have a surprise DD who is, er, just 1. After a bit of umming and aaaahing have decided (as of last night) to TTC again. Am going to try and dig out some OPKs and even still have my old ramekin!

Hope it's ok to come back. I was 37 a few weeks ago so desperately avoiding any Daily Mail stories proclaiming that my fertility will now be in negative numbers!

Molotov your dreams are telling you to have another baby, you should take note. My dreams tell me to shag Steve from Corrie, chance would be a fine thing

dino! I've scanned through the little trip down memory lane, a lot of names I don't recognise on that double whammy thread.
I hope to be ttc by the end result of the year too! but not sure about the meds, I may speak to my gp and see if he has any thoughts. would I be crazy to just try and use positive thinking to make it work?
gobbo name chances are too much for my brain , are you able to give me a clue who you were before?
mo that's a definite sign if ever there was one!

gobbo I remember you! welcome back

bonkers

sparks nooo! you're diffed, she's just toying with you!

imps beedle next scans?

well, by strict calculations, I would have two under three and one just three or over. So that would obviously make things totes more manageable!

We took DD and DS out to Pizza Express for an early tea. They were very good bit the thought of six grabbing hands rather than four makes me feel a bit faint!

Am off to catch up on the thread and for anyone wanting to know my old username,8 it was a shiny fruit! Can PM for anyone who can't work out - 'twas s long time ago hopefully you won't then be thinking, "oh fuck, not her again"!

Ps - thank you for the welcome back!

I'm not sure who you are Gob...gimme a clue??

Dino how lovely to see you back - always fab to hear from you and that all is going well. Thank you thank you for posting the links to Double and Tripe Whammy Fridays - I remember the latter like it was yesterday. I was working from home that day but got bugger all done - it was all too exciting! Good memories. Glad to see you will also be getting a BFP this year!

Sparks you are DIFFED and that is that. Don't believe anything or anyone who tells you otherwise - they are lying.

Oops didn't mean to post that quite yet.

AFM I have just done my 11th stimming jab and have scan tomorrow morning. All is going marvellously well and am really enjoying it! I know that sounds weird but it's lovely to be part of something as bloody amazing as IVF, even if it doesn't work. Incredible to think that if it does work, I'll have seen half of my baby in a scan BEFORE IT'S EVEN CONCEIVED!! Yes, I know that the follie isn't actually the egg, but indulge me here How cool is that?

Hoping for EC on Thursday or Friday and then we'll see if Mr I's sperm is up to fertilising anything. Would be nice if this round worked, but I'm keeping calm and casual and it really won't be the end of the world if it doesn't.

Beedle how are you getting on? Which stimming drugs are you using?

What have you all been up to this weekend then chaps?

One of my fellow Guide Leaders had twins on her 3rd pregnancy so when they were born she had 4 under 4

Gobbo I remember you, shiny grape!

So, following our third mc in jan, I think my body is still having long cycles. We've been referred to see a consultant in March but ahem we celebrated Valentines day 24 hours late, and I suspect I had my first post mc ovulation straight after. Have been having sensations for the last couple of days, so suspect we might soon be getting our 6th BFP, although I am so worried that it won't stick like the last 3. (For those who are new to this thread, I seem to feel ovulation and implantation, and have correctly known when I have been pregnant the last 5 times (I just didn't have a clue in the first one and probably put the sensations down to wind lol). Just got to wait until it's worth doing a test later this week. Unless my body is playing tricks and AF appears but I just feel like I am pregnant again. Just can't get excited any more, as getting pregnant is the easy part for me, have conceived first time of trying for every pregnancy, it's keeping them that has become the problem so even if it's a BFP then it's a long way off actually having a baby..

Ohhhh shiny grape of the noir variety! I of course remember you! Based up north in the home of Corrie and the Gallagher brothers, non?

Pasta - 4 under 4? Are you kidding??

Loopy was thinking about you earlier today. Brooking no argument (of course) that this wee bean sticks, but glad the consultant appointment is soon.

Keep meaning to tell you that I was talking to a friend the other week who was telling me about a colleague of hers who is 5mths pregnant with her first baby at the age of 46! Natural conception (in fact she'd broken up with her partner before finding out she was pregnant). This fills me with good positive thoughts - I still have 12 years to play with if she's anything to go by!