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.

fab the film was at an art house type cinema, not a blockbuster type. It was about overcoming challenges, both those you set your self and those which life throws at you. One woman had completed an ironman despite being paralysed from the chest down. Pretty inspirational!

winks I quite like it when people give me stupid advice. I listen politely to their story about how they tried for aaaages 3 or 4 months to get pg and then they tried x and it worked. And then I tell them that I've tried exercise, not exercising, yoga, mediation, acupuncture, hypnosis, vit b6, conception vits, omega 3, Chinese herbs, Chinese tea, consulted fertility experts, tried a wheat free diet, had sex every day, had sex every other day, temped, used opks, been on holiday and relaxed, had all the tests at the hospital, seen a couple of consultants, tried 6 months of clomid, two rounds of iui and now ivf, but if they could suggest something I hadn't tried I was all ears as I wouldn't want anyone to think I just wasn't trying. Although of course we had also tried the 'not trying too hard' thing as well. And if they had any tips on how to keep a baby alive once you were pregnant that would be even better. So, anything else you can suggest?

But then I'm a bitch . I like to think of myself as offering a public service. There might be some other woman on the end of their well meaning but patronising advice who is just recovering from a mc or is putting on a brave face about infertility but inwardly sobbing. Perhaps they'll think twice about making comments/offering advice/asking unwanted questions after encountering me .

On a more worrying note, I'm scared I'm coming down with another uti. I feel like I need a wee all the time, but I don't. I'd only ever had one, years ago, then I got one with the iui and now I'm showing signs again. Why?! What can I do to ward it off? I might speak to the nurse when I call this afternoon to find out when we're in on Monday and what time I need to stab tonight.

Have fun at the garden centre rain see what deals you can pick up to get this place comfy .
I'm going to do very little today. Perhaps some knitting . Then a gentle stroll round the park later with the dog.

So much culture drama in your life Barking, hoping like hell you can ward off another UTI, just what you don't need this close to D day. You should be the healthiest hag of the bunch with all your commitment to diet, health, exercise, the woo needles, hypno, etc. no one deserves this more than you. Here's hoping you can kick that upset into touch before it takes hold. No wonder a touch of bitterness creeps in from time to time, we forgive you mate!

Enjoy your relaxy day. Not long until you join me on the twat cushions. Hold fire til Fab gets home from shopping!

How did the bargain hunting go Fab? This place could do with some new sweary shabby chic and plenty more cushions for all of us taking it easy on the 2ww. How are you feeling? Any more symptoms? How's the menkul?

Ooh, just checked back to note Rain is at the garden centre too, we may well get a haul of chintz to dress up this gin palais!

Thanks for asking hags, I have to say I feel great, it's a struggle to remember to take it easy at times. I love this part of the 2ww anyway, all the hope, none of the menkul, but this time I feel a lot stronger in myself too. It also helps that my foof didn't taken a battering this time so downstairs feels much more normal!

I've done some very gentle yoga (that should be OK right?) met a friend for a cuppa, done some woo meditation, had a kip, been to see the steed (my luffly friends did the heavy lifting for me). Now having a chill out on the sofa with the rugger on.

Last IVF I stopped the yoga and felt a bit bereft for it. I'm just doing yin/restorative poses and being careful with the twisting but I definitely feel more energised for doing it. It's like a lifeline for helping to keep my mind calm and stop that restless stagnated feeling I Get from sitting around too much.

Long may the zen continue!

That's gone so quickly Winks! Had to chuckle at your Victoria sponge habit, is that the alternative mothers ruin to gin?!

Bad I've had it too, the well meaning 'why don't you try reflexology, it worked for me' suggestions. Erm, my fucking ovaries are shagged mate, no amount of foot prodding is going to replenish them with new eggs and make them work again. ah well.

So much conflicting advice Bugs. It was my woo needles lady who advised against the yoga but this time I didn't ask just decided to go with what feels right. I do a bit of yoga most days normally so it should be nothing out the ordinary but most advice on the tinterweb still says don't do it.

Not a fan of a foot massage Bugs?! I quite like a bit of reflexology but it has to be a firm touch, def no tickling!

What have you knitted Barking?

I had a fan-fucking-tastic reflexology massage last week. Yay foot prodding, I say. But alternative to gin? Chablis is an alternative to gin. Victoria sponge is in addition to it

It's no wonder the time has flown, it's been nine months of tea and cake and booze

I think rain and Fab might be lost in the garden centre, should we be sending a search party? Perhaps Fab is buried under a pile of twat cushions and rain is tied up in cunt bunting?

DCW has surpassed himself today. He picked up a book from a friend for me to read for my next bookclub and came back home from training with flowers and a lovely card saying how he already felt like the luckiest man in the world when he married me and if anything else came along it would simply be a bonus . He also brought smartie cookies and grapes . And he cooked dinner. I've been spoilt all day!

Trying to stay awake now for the trigger shot at 11 . Egg collection is 8am Monday morning.

One thing I didn't ask was if I needed to bring anything with me. When I've been sat waiting in the clinic you can tell who is in for egg collection as they are taken to a separate waiting area and they always have a bag with them. What is in the bag?!

Loving your style Winks!

Yoohoo, Fab?, Rain? Reckon you could be right Barking, our fellow BESH have succumbed to the seduction of the garden centre soft furnishings departments.

Top marks for DCW today, what a charmer! Reckon he's a keeper So is this you all ready for egg collection Barking? Exciting stuff. I expect the mystery hospital bags will have a dressing gown and slippers in them as you have to wear those silly gapey gowns that your bum hangs out of. Have the cod of calm to stash away in your pocket. You'll be fine whatever happens and you can do this.

Cross post Bugs, oops, as you were

Trigger shot done, chez, I am indeed good to go . Woke up with bad cramps on the right hand side in the night though, hope nothing is good to go too early!!!! tries to stem the menkul

I shall take dressing gown and slippers, ta for the advice hags .

Wow, that's a haul. It scares me, all these stories of less eggs than follicles. I've only got 3 follicles and one of them is probably too mature now .
IOTO....... IOTO....... IOTO....... IOTO....... IOTO....... IOTO.......

Quality not quantity Barking, absolutely IOTO, put all the faith you have in that thought. Damn it, I'm clinging to our one chance for all its worth.

At this rate I'll be spending half my 2ww in some sort of woo induced state of relaxation/meditation. And a good part of the other half dealing with these bloody pessarys! They're grim, much oiler and messier than the ones I had before. Its the same progesterone I have for my POF so at first I was pleased as at least I know I get on with the drug. Except on 8x the strength they have somewhat more of an overspill effect.

Theeeee eggs will come out, tomorrow, betcha bottom dollar that tomorrow - there'll be eggs! Get that bag packed barking!
Did I ever tell you lot about my first encounter with the hospital gown? It was for my HyCoSy and no one told me how to put it on so I put it on kimono style and flashed everyone with my glorious muff (and it truly was glorious that day). The shame!

You lots weren't far off with me being lost, we ended up on a mammoth trail of chore related shopping trips and then succumbed to the pub. BUT I have returned with a couple of extra twat cushions (none as luffly as bugs real life one, but they'll do). As I was at the garden centre I've also got us our very own 'fuck it' bucket. I am going to christen it by chucking in the pregnancy announcement CARD we got yesterday from a cousin. Fuck that!

winks you sound awesome. Not really surprising given you're an ESH but I do so love how even tho I only really know the spring 2014 onwards lot, the rest of you are all just as fab. Feel free to leave any unwanted Victoria sponge in here! Good luck for Thursday!

Right, we're off for some token outdoors moving about in order to justify the pub lunch we're having later. See you all anon!

A fucking card?! I think that pisses all over the scan picture on fb!!!! I can't even start to capture how disgustingly bad taste and smug that is. Ugh!
How restrained of you to throw it away Rain, I think I would have burnt it....

Although, if it's a metal fuck it bucket, we can burn everything we put in it . Please tell me you got a metal one?! I'm barkingtreefrog and I'm a pyromaniac

Waltzes in scattering newly plumped and covered twat cushions with gay abandon.... They have a new logo emblazoned on them - IOTO in a repeating pattern :)

Burn it, burn it, burn it!!! How horrifically smug!

I wasn't told to take anything in for EC - your clinic must just be adding a little extra layer of comfort how nice!

Actually I feel rubbish hags. Not hurling but if I don't eat on time I feel very bleurghish plus have a knacking headache and feeling like grumpy mcgrumpster. Have come away for an impromptu visit to Yorkshire to see my mum, sis and my bruth who's visiting from overseas and I'm struggling to not be grumpy when I should be having a lovely time. All I keep thinking about is that last time I was diffed I had a mmc at 8w3d and I am currently 8w1d. Eeep. Menkul. I'm symptom watching like crazy. Boobs still sore if I give them a squeeze but not like they were and they haven't grown. Near constant cramping in my lower abdomen which I've had since transfer makes me think it's ok but last time I had one big almighty cramping session that made me cry and then I knew that was it. I haven't had that yet thankfully. I didn't have the feeling sick thing before either so overall I think I've got stronger symptoms that before so I shouldn't menkul ....but.... I've had TWH and bruth trying to fix me - why don't you do this, why don't you do that, there's nothing you can do so why worry.....argh. I'm not doing it on purpose!!

Soz for the outburst. I was doing relatively well for a while but this weekend is a bit of a struggle.

Definitely metal, although now pondering whether a fuck it chiminea might be more useful if less catchy sounding...
Yeah, it was a bit sick inducing. No scan photo THANK FUCK but instead a horrid twee little '1 + 1 = 3' slogan and 'we're starting a family!' on the inside. It's one of RAFs cousins who we have literally seen about once in the last decade so really could not give a toss, fucking pair of show off dicks! I genuinely didn't realise cards existed for these sorts of things!
Forgot to say, DCW gets aaallll the brownie points this weekend, what a champ! Get lots of PMA woo-age in this afternoon and take it as easy as you're able!

fab I can only imagine the menkul inducing nightmare of getting past that date but you WILL hag, you really will, and in the meantime you are 100% allowed to be as grumpy as you like, it's completely understandable. Sorry you're feeling so grotty on top of it all, have you found anything to counter it at all?

fab will the clinic not give you an extra scan for reassurance? I looked into it last time before the 2nd mc - I'd found somewhere local to go for a 9 week scan for £80 if the clinic wouldn't do it. Well worth it in my opinion. Do you have a midwife yet? They could refer you to epu for reassurance as well.
I know I'd be the same in your shoes . Hang on in there lovely.