Bring along any luck you can find ..This BESHly fred is brought to you by the magic number 3 - come on Hags, we can Foo it!

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You know the drill by now ...

Rules of Entry - must be over 30, TTC no. 1 for over a year, be suitably evil and Hag like, willing to shout Cunt at the moon on regular occasions, consume extra gin when our fellow hags are unable to, and to get the nipple tassles out for any successful Hag ...

and now we've been trained by the government in our new MI5 roles, we are likely to get a little Ninja on your ass if you babydust round here ...

No admittance without a complete BESHtionnaire - see below.

Thanks Fab, struggling not to feel a little despondent but trying to put all our hope in our little egg. IOTO...

It's the new chant, IOTO....

not so nice fish faith (for once I'm actually on my laptop not my phone and can see the photo!!!)

IOTO IOTO IOTO (chanting, ommm).

Wishing you the very best of luck for a calm, peaceful, easy transfer of your precious little embie today Chez. Enjoy the knock out drucks and then spend the next two weeks doing nothing please!

PUPO today chez!
IOTO!

Fanks hags, can't say I slept so well last night for the menkul but have done some woo and a bit of yoga and feel a lot more chilled in the light of day. I think I'll be a lot better once this little egg is on board. I'm terrified we get a call this morning to say it's perished over night, don't bother coming.

Nice fish find Faif

Chez not sure what IOTO means but chanting along and sending you hugs and positive energy!!

We are all rooting for you and your embie, hag!

Erica - it only takes one (it took me a while to figure it out too!)

iOTO ..... Come on little embie, you can do it (and again I will say, why are there no love heart symbols on this app, embie needs love hearts!)

any news lovely chez?

Your well wishes have been amazing, thanks hags! I'm glad to report our little two cell embie is safely on board and that getting it in there was delightfully quick and painless compared to any other time I've had a catheter shoved that far up the foof. Hurrah! Just lots of good vibes needed now for our little cherry pip to blossom please

Off to indulge in some more woo.

Good vibes a-plenty, cherry.

I wish I could say TGIF, but sadly I'm back to work proper on Monday, and so will be working most of the weekend on preparation and on the paper for review I was supposed to bring with me to read on the airplane but left in my work-bag and is now late. Gah!

I'm full of menkul, hags. I can't shake the droid-sadness, and I have to meet friends for dinner tomorrow that are all mammied-up and love to talk about their children incessantly. Some of them can be a little insensitive about my 'great lifestyle' (so much freedom! all the travel! nothing to tie us down!), so I'm considering just telling them all that we're having trouble and it's all very difficult. But at the same time, I'm afraid I'll get all upset and maudlin, and I don't want to be on the receiving end of pity and well-meant but useless 'advice'.

Whoop!! Go little cherry pip!!!! IOTO .

I can't help wondering how common it is to turn up for egg collection and they don't find any eggs at all. Just heard about this happening to someone. If I've been pg twice before there must be eggs in my follies, right?!

bad it comes in waves, doesn't it, the coping and not coping . I have always gone for over sharing. It's always worked for me. It either shuts them up or they show interest and ask questions. I can't say I've never had a bad response, but again I'm just very blunt and direct and if they're saying something I don't find useful I tell them that very clearly.... If you're a nicer person than me this technique might not work for you .

Yay, nestle in Cherry pip!!

Bad I'm with Barking on this one - over sharing has always been the way forward along with a polite smile when they say something unhelpful and then baffle with knowledge as to why they're wrong. To be fair there has been practically no-one who has been hurtful once they've understood the problem and the only person who was really bad was a total bitch and I took great pleasure in telling everyone what an awful person she was which made me feel better!!

Barking I don't think this will be your problem Hag as you've always produced before. Keep strong, trust the process and get the woo on to fight those neggie vibes.

Finally managed to get on the lappie and see Faith's fish - nice work there Hag!

Chez, we haven't said it yet - you're PUPO! Keep that at the forefront of your mind please :)

Blue, I made a chicken, mushroom, leek and lentil pie tonight for dinner after our chats about lentils. If my arse explodes on the way up to Yorkshire tomorrow I shall blame you entirely!

chez woohoo!!!!

bad that's a toughie. I am not 'out and proud' like barking and fab, although most of my friends do know we've been trying for a while*. I do agree that in your circumstances I might go with just getting it out there. if they're good friends they'll listen and take it on board if their week meant advice is rubbish. if they're not, then at least you'll know they're not.

I've been out for a colleague's pre marital drinks, it was all going well till the tequila appeared so I beat a hasty retreat before I got too blotto.

*understatement of the decade

well not week.

Fanks Rain
I'm so chilled out hags, tis awesome until I have to remember how to do the Clexane jag

Barking the doubts are entirely normal God knows I had them too but Fab is right, try to trust the process and keep the faif. It would be really unusual not to have eggs and the IOTO mantra is right where it's at just now. Hang in their hag and have the gurnard of good luck.

Bad it's shit hey? Infertility hurts however you dress it. We've all been there. Cockles of comfort to you until the low mood lifts whatever you decide to do. I'm out to only a few people and that suits me fine, but then our story does have an extra non straightforward twist. It's whatever is going to help you most in the long run. Making sure you have at least a couple of folk in the know in each walk of life has been helpful to me for some understanding support when the shit hits the fan.

Damn it I'd forgotten how stingy Clexane is.
good to see you round these parts hag! Thanks for popping by for a spot of cheerleading. How's tricks?!

Cherry - big clexane tip - stab forcefully (sometimes those fuckers are so blunt they actually bounce back!!) then inject as slow as you possibly can. And do not rub the site afterwards. This should leave you with only the teensiest of stings if any and only a pinprick bruise.

Well done for being zen like. That's truly amazing

Badb If there are good friends, I would share. You don't have to give all the details but something along the lines of 'well, we've been trying for a while now so I'm feeling a bit down about it...' will put a stop to the 'great lifestyle, so much freedom' comments and hopefully get you sympathy, space to talk about non-baby stuff and who knows? Maybe some advice. So many people have opened up to me about their own infertility issues once I told them about mine...

Infertility is nothing to be ashamed about and we deserve as much support as the 'omg my baby cries all night long' sisters.

(remind me my own words when I'm wallowing in self pity and feeling like the biggest failure in the world)

Happy Saturdays hags! All the woooo chill vibes for Chez and Barking!

chez I am mucho looking forward to the knock-you-out drugs on Monday! Can't wait to join you in PUPO land. I'll be needing my own twat cushion soon, anyone passing the twat shop this wkd?

Well, last night was supposed to be lovely. DCW was off training, then I was going to pick him up to go for food, and then to see a film. Got home from work starving and opened the fridge. No light on. Bugger, I thought, we need a new bulb. Then DCW realised the time on the cooker wasn't on, something had tripped the lecky. So we turned everything off but it wouldn't come back on. Then realised we hadn't turned off the cooker as it was a bugger to get to. When we'd done the it came back on. Marvellous. I went to walk the dog, DCW went training. Came back to the house ready to have a shower and picked up my nexus first to check in on the BESH. No Wifi. Aha, of course, it's all switched off. Plugged the Wifi back in. Nada. Switch had tripped again . Went round the house again to check everything was out, still nothing. Called a friend who did some electrics for us when we did the lounge up, and he kindly came round to have a look (with his missus, as they were supposed to be on their way out...) He went round the house trying to find the fault. Eventually found two plugs that had a fault, but nothing wrong with them, fault must be somewhere in between them. It became clear after an hour that he wasn't going to be able to fix the problem that night, so he isolated the fault and made it so that the other plugs would work (I was getting worried about my big cook off last weekend - all that bloody food in the freezer!!!!) However by this time it was 8.45 and the film started at 9 in town... I had already told DCW to make his own way there and speak to our friend who was supposed to be getting a lift in with me, and emailed them the tickets so they could go without me. I definitely didn't have time to drive in and find somewhere to park. And I hadn't had any food. But then the electrician offered to drop me off in town so I thought fuck it, grabbed a banana and clambered into the back of his van with all the equipment (his missus was sat in the front). I called DCW and he left my ticket behind the desk. I was dropped off a little way from the cinema (outside the food place I was due to go to with DCW, just to rub it in, as they'd got the idea when I said I was supposed to be going there... ) and I ran to the cinema (all the time wondering if I was shaking the follies too much, menkul) and got there in time for the film!!!

Didn't get home until 11.30 and DCW (who had to cycle home) was knackered and wanted to head straight to bed. At which point I reminded him that it was 3 days before ec and he needed to clear the tubes. I left him to sort that job out on his own!

Cherry are you still zen this morning? I lurk sometimes to see what's happening :) All good here, but I'm back to work on Thursday and starting to fret, plus I've developed a serious Victoria sponge habit so my uniform trousers are tiiiiight

badb I found the problem with sharing was the 'advice'. Had I gone for a massage to relax? Fuck off to fuck!

barking not really funny but that dud make me laugh, what a nightmare!! Did you not even get any popcorn? sacrilege!! I hope the film was worth it, what did you see?

I was supposed to be out for a big ol' girly-fest with my bestie today but she's got d&v do I'm now at a loose end. Considering going to the garden centre with RAF for a 2 for 1 breakfast. We're such a pair of old biddies.

chez I hope the stabbing is less stingy today. Sounds like good advice from fab!

Will keep my eyes peeled for a twat cushion today, and maybe even a fuck it bucket too

Maybe the garden centre will have a deal on the twat cushion, fuckit bucket and some cunt bunting?? We love a garden centre twofer breaky deal in our household. Yes it's sad but garden centres are lovely and inspiring in spring although admittedly not very rock'n'roll! What has happened to my life????

Barking that sounds like quite the night!! Glad you got it mostly sorted and didn't lose any of your hard cooked food . What was the film?

Hope you're feeling ok this morning Cherry?

Winks back to work already? Jeez that's flown by!