Ibeka, you are amazing. Fact.
Sammy, some women spend more than that on 'fertility' acupuncture and herbs and supplements; some women would spend a tenth of the cost of an embryoscope on a Clearblue Fertility Monitor. If you're going to spend thousands on private IVF then you'd be daft not to pay for video time lapse technology for your embryos. It improves chances of a successful cycle by 10% - not sure where your doc got 6% from. Of course I am evangelical about the scope as it worked for me. I would've been devo'd had it not worked and we hadn't utilised it. I think it's bloody wonderful piece of technology; the embryologists can analyse so much more about an embryo's behaviour than taking it out of the unit once a day and having only a snapshot of its development in each 24-hr period.
I rang my dad from the train station and he picked me up 
Woolly, thanks for answering. I've been doing it wrong (quelle surprise! 
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Sammy, I urge you to join a cycling IVF thread; you will find priceless hand-holding at the crucial times (injections/downregging/egg collection/transfer) - but don't leave us! 
Th'Eskimo, I've answered your post on fb.
I am suddenly very definite about wanting our donor to cycle again. I can't bear to think of a baby in my home that isn't all Nancy's genes 
She is the most incredible creature - I don't think I could love a different make and model.
Rainy, women have always struggled to have babies right throughout history, but in ye olden days there was absolutely nothing they could do about it; without technology and science and drugs and internet forums I reckon the pain was just dealt with silently and in prayer. Even the Old Testament documents the heartache of Samuel's mother with her bewailing her barren womb (she prayed for years for a child and had to suffer the indignity of her husband impregnating her maidservant - quite normal and amoral in those days) Fantastic ending, though 
I will go and invent anuvver fred....