Trying to conceive for 10 months or more. Thread 5. All ten plussers welcome.

[lucieloos]

Thread for anyone TTC for over ten months. Please feel free to join us!

My scans 9th August! Ages away!
Enjoy your breakfast! Xx

That sounds awful, Itsme. I hope it settles quickly.

Darker lines is a good thing Sammy. I hope the 9th arrives quicker than you think.

I have joined a gym this week. I've put on over 2 stone over the last year with all the pregnancies and miscarriages. My induction was thursday night and I did my first class this morning. Bodypump. Ouch. Not having a clue I just booked one in for a time that suited me. Apparently it is quite a hard one to start on. I survived though. Afterwards I went to get new trainers as my current ones are just slightly too narrow and make my feet ache. I got gait analysis done first. That was hilarious. The leg that I thought would be bad has the best gait he has ever seen. He says it is perfectly straight and just like the textbook ones in their training. Not bad after torn cartilage and 8 dislocations. My other leg, however, pronates quite a bit and flops all over the place. It took ages to find a combination of shoes and insoles that helped it. I didn't want pink shoes, so of course the ones which did work well were the brightest pink in the shop. Oh well, I look suitable girly now and it gave us a laugh.

Itsme - how are you?

Brenna - hehe to your pink trainers! Mine are pink too, but that was by choice
Straight in to body bump? Ouch! How are your muscles feeling now?

Brenna good luck with the excersise! I've always wanted that gait analysis done, but never been in the mood to pay for the expensive trainers they suggest ha! Well done!

I'm feeling pretty rubbish and down in the dumps, I called the clinic and they said as long as I was having a wee and not vomiting there's not really anything they can do and just to keep drinking clear liquids (at least 3ltrs a day) which after attempting it yesterday is absolutely impossible, Its better in the mornings but by the afternoon I'm a whale and can't eat let alone drink.

And, I'm so over the sex ban, all I want is a little time to feel attractive again and those effing vag bullets are also truly disgusting.

Other than that, I keep thinking I'll POAS on weds and it'll be BFN and this will all be for nothing. Terrified of it not sticking.

How are you doing Sammy? What's the plan to keep yourself occupied until the scan? X

Itsme, I really hope the ohss eases up for you soon and good luck for Wednesday.

MPP, how are you getting along with stimms? Have you got your flights, accommodation and scans all sorted now?

Oh bless you, that's rubbish. I guess you can't take the medication when pregnant then. Have you tried sports drinks? They rehydrate you quicker so even if you don't manage your three litres you'll be ok. Keeping everything crossed for you for Wednesday.

I'm ok thank you. No real plan, although thankfully we do have quite a bit on in the evenings this week so that will help. I'm trying to embrace something banana said and just think 'for now I am pregnant'

That sounds awful Itsme. Everything crossed here too. The trainers weren't too bad, a £75 pair which I got a 10% discount on. More expensive than my normal but hopefully no sore feet either.

You are indeed pregnant today Sammy and hopefully for many, many more days to come.

Evening all! Apologies for the abscence. We had a couple of nights away and I'm avoiding mumsnet on my phone at the moment as I keep getting dodgy pop-ups!

Itsme, that sounds very uncomfortable. :( I hope you start feeling better soon.

Sammy, how are you doing? Scan on 9th August? I can imagine it feels like ages away, but it'll be here before you know it!

Brenna, I did the same with a zumba class not long ago! I swear, it nearly killed me, but I got through it and ended up loving it! I haven't been since the wedding though. My trainers are black with pink edges.

Trixie, when we started ttc two years ago, one of the other staff had a car with a bfp number plate. Ignore the bus bfn. Buses are well known for being inaccurate!

Lucie, when do you fly out now? I am doing ok. Flights booked, accomodation booked, scans booked for Tuesday and Friday(with Jodie). Stimms are ok. I've been making DH do them for me so far, but I guess I'll have to do them myself at some point! The first one he did to the right didnt hurt at all, but the second he did to the left really stung! No idea why. I have a bit of padding in the area . We fly out a week tonight and I'm starting to get nervous now, thinking about all the 'what ifs'. EC collection is on my mind alot too. How are you doing?

Hope everyone else is ok! :-)

Wednesday and Friday, not Tuesday and Friday!

Eeekk mpp, glad you have everything sorted and the stimms are ok! I have my scan with Jodie tomorrow morning I'm so scared but you will love her she really is lovely. I may possibly have another scan on Wednesday so we will just miss each other there. Did you decide to stick with your original hotel? I still haven't booked a hotel yet as I want to book the deal with the barcelo on their website but it's non refundable so I have been waiting and will see how the scan goes tomorrow. We are due to fly out on Thursday and probably back Monday so we will be like passing ships!

Yes, we stuck with our original hotel, but still consideriing changing. We can cancel up until thursday, and I'm still umming and ahhhing. haha, we really will be like passing ships for the next week! Do you change any money to take with you? We weren't sure if we should, as it would be useful to have some currency with us, I assume, but we dont want to be stuck with lots of it if we don't use it all. Good luck with the scan tomorrow! I hope it goes well for you :-)

Lucie and MPP! It's all go. Keeping everything crossed for both of you.
Lucie good luck for your scan tomorrow, and MPP good luck for yours on Wednesday! Xx

Thanks Sammy! Glad all is good with you.

MPP, we don't tend to change currency although we are a bit like that wherever we go. We just draw it out of the cash machine when we arrive at the airport. There is a small charge normally a few pounds per transaction and I'm sure maybe you could save a little bit if you ordered currency in advance but it just suits us to do it that way as like you say we can just take out what we need then. I know in Brno they have little exchange kiosks as well along the main street which we used on our first trip. I'm sure they have them in Prague too but obviously you won't want to be faffing with that when you get there late so maybe either order a smallish amount in advance and top up later with a cash point or just take it all out of the cash point when you get there.

I ache a bit Sammy but I'm not too bad.

Best of luck MPP and Lucie. How exciting. Unbelievable that you guys are missing each other though.

Good luck MPP and Lucie! x

Thank you just arrived at the clinic. I'm so nervous, hate this bit so much! I don't think there's going to be anything there. I can't feel anything.

Good luck MPP and Lucie :-)

Good luck ladies xx

OMG The mini works! She said quite often they see people who do better on lower stimms as you aren't pushing the ovaries so hard. I got 9 follicles and sizes quite even. I did estrogen priming too so that might have helped.

Just popped on to see if you've had your scan Lucie, amazing news

Good luck with your scans MPP!

Thank you what a relief I really didn't expect to see anything there and was hoping for 2-3 good follies at best but I have 1x16mm, 5x13mm, 1x11mm, 1x10mm and 1x8mm. So fairly even apart from the 8mm which is too small. This would have been a good result for me on full stimms. Still a long way to go and I've had half of them disappear on second scans before so not getting overly excited but another step done. I still don't expect to collect more than my usual 2-3 eggs but if I could get those for the price of a mini it would be amazing. It worries me a bit about the NHS as they want me on 450iu next time. If this round went well I would be tempted to reduce without telling them and save half for another mini! Anyway next scan Wednesday morning and fly on Thursday.

Wow Lucie!! Amazing! Congratulations :). When is your next scan? X

Fantastic news Lucie. Everything crossed for you.

Thanks both! Next scan is Wednesday morning so fingers crossed for that one. Felt so nice coming out of a scan with relatively good news rather than in tears lol.