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Took the liberty of starting a new thread (with what is obviously a brilliant piece of rhyme!) as I assume everyone else is sleeping peacefully right now :)
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MPP81 · 05/04/2016 01:12
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maplebaby ·
31/05/2016 08:49
Sammy not a bitch, I often feel the same. I do wonder about the stat of 1 in 6 (or is is 8) people struggle to conceive - my FB is full of pregnancy announcements, birth announcement, bump photos etc although I guess they don't say if they struggled... It feels so unfair.
Molly good luck on your tww.
Gee hope you get your lap soon - waiting and being in limbo is so hard - I'm still waiting for my IUI letter / appointment! I'm sure your parents didn't mean to say that. My mum is the same, she knows what I'm going trough and will then say to my sister can you have a couple more please - as if they can be made on demand! Well done on everyday for 2 weeks!!
So AF finished on Thursday (and by that I mean the spotting I get after as it trails off! Yes I'm lucky and get spotting before AND after!) and dtd on Saturday and yesterday and both times I had some blood after... On Saturday it was brown so I though it was (tmi) remnants from AF but yesterday was more pinky 
hope it's nothing..!
maplebaby ·
31/05/2016 14:33
Itsme yes I hate the just relax "advice"!! My mum gives me that one 
Good luck for tomorrow! Do they make you practice with a real needle??
star1980 ·
31/05/2016 17:55
Hi Molly and Geeup, sorry you find yourselves here but this is a lovely supportive thread full of people who understand and have lots of knowledge!
Geeup, I know you from the MF thread - seems we have the same issues. I have fibroids too but was told they are all on the outside of the uterus so shouldn't affect anything. Indeed, lots of the googling I did at the time they found them suggested that many people only find out they have fibroids at their pregnancy scans, so they really shouldn't stop us getting pregnant. I think the risk of miscarriage is slightly increased, but not sure.
Sorry for the baby bomb sammy. I agree, you're definitely not a bitch, just human and going through this crappy journey. 
Banana, how are you doing? Have you had an update on your embryos? Hope they're all still going strong.
Trixie, really hope you are looking after yourself - I've been thinking about you.
MPP, congratulations on being a married woman!! Hope you're not reading this from honeymoon and put all thoughts about ttc (apart from the sex) out of your head! I would be very happy to read of a miracle honeymoon pregnancy when you get back :)
{waves to everyone else}
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bananafish81 ·
01/06/2016 17:12
star great news about the SA! Re: timed intercourse, given low-ish count I would ask your clinic for advice, normally eod in the days leading up to trigger in the absence of male factor, potentially every 3 days with low count. I was told by my Dr to cover off approx +24h and +36h post trigger (i.e. the day after trigger, and again the next morning). However we don’t have any male factor issues and your clinic may advise otherwise
You don’t want to start AFTER trigger as that’s the LH surge so you’ll ovulate approx 36-37h post trigger, and the egg only lives for about 12h. You want to start before to get the swimmers ready, and then immediately post trigger (within 36h) is the most important shag
sammy hugs. Can’t the baby bombs just FUCK THE FUCK OFF (sorry, potty mouth, but some occasions deserve serious swears). Apparently some people have sex, get pregnant and get a baby 9 months later. When people say how expensive having kids is, I wanna say ‘yeah, try MAKING them’
(all that said, since ‘coming out’ about IVF I have found that loads of FB friends I thought were just smug fertiles with their perfect families also struggled. One had 3 miscarriages in the space of 11 months. One had 5 years of TTC, 7 IUIs, 2 fresh, 2 FET and several miscarriages to get her two kids -I obv just saw two very cute kids and had no idea of her struggle. Another had 2 MMC @ 12 weeks between her first and second kids. You just don’t know)
Your friends don’t sound like they fall into that category though, you’re not a bitch, you’re human. All the hugs.
Itsme the thought of the injections is way worse than the actual doing of them. I didn’t get an injections teach at all - we just watched a YouTube video and stabbed on our first night of stims. You’ll be a pro in no time!
molly and geeup sorry you find yourselves here, but welcome - it’s a fabulous group of very lovely, very knowledgable and very supportive women
Trixie thinking of you lovely. Hope you and DH can do something to be kind to yourselves. Mini break sounds like a terrific idea - I’d say an essential part of the protocol
maple woohoo for appointment coming through! Do ask if you’re going to be monitored on Clomid. Some trusts have a nasty habit of just giving out Clomid without scans and just doing progesterone blood tests to see if you’ve ovulated or not. Push for scans, because you
a) need to know if the Clomid is making you over-respond, and risking multiples
b) if it’s making you ovulate but thinning your lining, and thus simultaneously ‘working’ but making it impossible to conceive if nothing can implant (less common but possible)
Mpp hope you don’t see this and are having a fab honeymoon!
lucie hope you had a lovely weekend away and a nice break with DH
So, after two nerve wracking days of waiting for calls, the final tally is in for our embryos
We have a grand total of 12 blasts for PGS testing!
From this fresh cycle, we ended up with 9 good blasts that were suitable for biopsy and freezing.
Of our 4 frosties, 3 of them were able to be biopsied. Although the fourth did thaw, it didn’t successfully re-expand and progress to hatching blast stage, and therefore wasn’t suitable for biopsy.
Although we won’t ever know for sure, the lab say in general that euploid embryos do generally survive the freeze / thaw process, and those that don’t are generally aneuploid - so it’s likely that this embryo was a dud and just weeded itself out
We’re thrilled with these numbers - now we just have to hope that in two weeks time (yes, another 2ww!) that there are some decent ones in there - and most of all, that there’s one that will be able to go the distance and become a person 9 months later. The FET is what terrifies me, as if we put a PGS tested embryo back and the cycle fails or I miscarry again, it’s all down to my body’s inability to sustain a pregnancy. Even if we get a good seed, if we can’t get the soil right, it’s all for naught. So just really really have to hope my body won’t let another healthy baby down
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