Thanks ladies, I have duly rubbed the picture. Saved it to my phone for a quick rub (haha) tomorrow morning in the cab to the clinic!!
MrsC it’s an interesting one with the blokes. I really found the book ‘His and Her’s guide to IVF’ helpful for a view about the treatment we’re going through, from the blokes’s POV. With my DH, we had a really good chat about the fact that just because he’s not obsessing completely immersed in all things TTC doesn’t mean he’s not interested and doesn’t care. He had a good chat with some friends of ours who also had fertility treatment, and both the blokes agreed it was important for them to retain some sense of distance, so they could be the voice of ‘reason’ and balance when we were emotional wrecks. We walk a fine line between ‘how much is too much’ sharing, although now we’re at IVF I think any sense of TMI went out the window. He would ask about OPKs and got very excited when we got a smiley face on the CBFM, but I don’t share the details of my CM (although he does know what that stands for!). I was actually really touched and surprised when I found out that he’d been reading up all about Clomid, and knew a lot more than I thought he did.
Freddie that article is super interesting, thanks so much for sharing. And OMG how exciting about your wedding! Hope you have the most wonderful day.
ponty hope AF cramps have subsided. The funniest thing about our faces on the SA pot is how bloody awful the photos are - you can barely tell it’s us!!
FeeFee Glad you’re finding the book useful - I have to say, I skipped over the BPA chapters as I was already driving myself absolutely bonkers with chugging a million supplements and eating low GL (and since we knew I was starting IVF, eating ALL the protein and making myself drink milk, even though it makes me boak!). I found the supplements advice so so helpful - she did all the work reading all the studies, and put it into a format a muggle like me could understand.
Trigger shot was fine thanks - meant we had 3 injections last night, but that should be it for jabs for this cycle. Honestly, you really do get used to injecting yourself really quickly. The first time is weird, but not painful. My meds were really easy - the Gonal-F (FSH injection) and the trigger shot both came in ready-loaded epipens, with teeny little insulin needles, I could barely feel them. The Cetrotide (blocker to stop ovulation) needed a little more prep - comes in a little vial of powder and a syringe of sterile water, and needs mixing & drawing up - but I put DH on mixing duty, and did the injecting myself. We had a nice little routine doing it together, I have to say, that for all the stress and strain of IVF, it really really does feel like we're even closer, and that it's something we're doing together as a team.
No injections today! Lots less bloated since being on the lower dose of stims, but today my ovaries ache a bit. Hoping it’s cos the smaller follies have decided to have a growth spurt 
DH and I watched some YouTube videos from vloggers going through IVF for ’tips for going through IVF’ and a couple of women mentioned getting yourself some nice cheery socks to wear on collection day. I couldn’t resist a pair which say ‘Let’s carpe the fuck out of this diem’!! God only knows what my consultant will think when he clocks them when my ankles are in the air in stirrups!! 