TTC through Donor IUI or Donor IVF or just undecided - all welcome! #makeithappen #loadsofBFPs!!!!

[kwick]

This thread is for anyone trying to conceive... or thinking about doing so through donor IUI or donor IVF. Nothing TMI - feel free to join, we are a lovely group here to support and help keep the cray-cray away!
Here is the link to the previous thread: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/conception/2688511-TTC-through-Donor-IUI-or-Donor-IVF-or-just-undecided-all-welcome-makeithappen

Here is the link to the thread before that: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/conception/2587046-TTC-through-Donor-IUI-or-Donor-IVF-or-just-undecided-all-welcome

Wow pickle this is ace news!!!
Are you going to see the sexy surgeon again today?

So I have been home all day and yet the washing up still has not been done from yesterday.... #notyummymummymaterial

kwick how are you doing? Any new symptoms? What's the next step?

Yep got to see the hunky surgeon one last time,then I cried and said how much he's changed my life #emotionalwreckcantevenblamehormones!

Meh, I didn't even get out of pjs yesterday, apart from taydex we dont need to be yummy mummy's just yet,just yummy mummy's in the making

I've found the chat again! I was looking at the donor conception topics and couldn't understand where this thread had gone!
Hope you are all well - going to take my time and read back through thread to catch up with everyone.
I think I last posted when I had my smear in November - it hurt and result showed I needed a colospocy. I was so nervous and again another painful appointment for me in December!
I found out early January that I'm ok ( I have Cin 1 - one third abnormal cells and body will normally kill abnormal cells by itself) so I've bought some sperm and just waiting for period to start this week and going to call clinic to go ahead with iui this month. All I do is daydream about getting pregnant while also telling myself it might take a few gos yet...anyhow going to see how your journeys are all going xx

'Kwick' you're pregnant - congratulations!!! Xxxxx

Welcome back hoping glad to hear you are ok Hun, that must have been very scary!!
Glad to hear things are back on track! Totally get the day dreaming about babies-I think about 95% of my day is consumed with thinking about babies
Realised it is actually 3 days and 16 hours (id changed my time so I could give myself extra lives on a silly game app to waste time whilst waiting for appointment-doh)

Ok so just wanna say... staying in PJs all day and not washing up is totally what us mummies do. Your training is going well!

Welcome back hoping. I had squiffy smear once which led to many colposcopies. Fun fun!

Good luck for your consultation on the 13 th PICKLE - I remember feeling really excited that the journey was beginning X

Oh gosh can someone remind me how j put a name in bold? X

Hey Taydex how is the little one?
Loved your pic of baby and your two boys xx

Hey hoping. Put a star either side of the word to bold it.

Little one is doing fine thank you (apart from having a meltdown for most of today!). She's mostly a happy little smiler and lets her mummies sleep overnight so I think I got a good one!

xx

pez I am not sure what is pregnancy related or just normal... I often get nausea in the morning - yesterday it went on into the afternoon, I like to sleep a lot, yesterday I had 2 naps and went to sleep early...

Welcome back hoping!!! An IUI this cycle - how exciting!!!!
Thanks!

pickle I always cry when at Drs...

Am on way to work early to make up for yesterday!!!

Haha my last few appointments at doctors have left me in tears too xx

Thanks Taydex

Kwick - I found frequent tiny snacks the key to managing nausea so I started carrying oatcakes around and eating half at a time. And do nap when you feel the need if you can - we've got a good excuse

I've been unwell since Friday and I'm fed up now I don't know whether its the world's worst cold or something more sinister so I'm off to see my GP this morning. I'll try not to cry on her

Ginger biscuits and ready salted crisps were my saviour. Little and often. And keep yourself hydrated x

I second the ready salted crisps. Also apples and belvita breakfast biscuits. And ice pops/lollies. Lots of water.

And sleep. All of the sleep. All of the time. Growing a tiny human is exhausting.

shoes hope you are feeling better

Ladies I need no encouragement to eat more... so for now I am on the chewing gum. I do not feel it is preggers nausea though - probably just work stress. That said I got LOADS done today!!! Also spoke with other boss about travel & weight restrictions and she was great about it - did not even press for the reason. Phew!

Hope u feel better soonshoes
Mmmmm ginger biscuits and ready salted crisps 😍Make me hungry

Fab news about work kwick

I'm currently feeling very grateful I can still drink alcohol at the mo! One of those days ..... wish I had some ready salted walkers crisps tho to go with

Not sure how I'm going to cope with TWW, it's killing me waiting for period to start so I can phone clinic and confirm iui for this month. I've never been a patient person gosh this is hard. Don't even get me started on waiting 9 months once I finally get pregnant lol!

Lol yeh I imagine I'll be the same!

Oooh pickle I'm planning to use the same clinic as you, where is the satellite clinic going to? (if it happens).

I'm planning to start tracking my cycles, which ovulation kits would everyone recommend?(feeling like a complete novice and have no idea where to start!) also any other tips/suggestions people have please!!

Ah ah hoping, I'm exactly the same! This week waiting to have my IUI is excruciating and I can't even begin to imagine what the 2ww will be!!!

char, I tracked my cycle for 4 months before going ahead with the first IUI. I used the cheap opk (green ones) that you can buy of Amazon. Buy plenty so you can test several times a day!
For the IUI this month I also bought the expensive (£27!!!) dual hormone test from Clearblue but my clinic says it's a waste of money and they ask me to use the cheapies instead. Needless to say I'm using both this week!
I also took my bbt every morning and tracked CM on the Kindara app but there's plenty other apps you can use for this.

I found it really exciting for the first few months and then I got slightly obsessed with it all so I now only take my bbt around ovulation time.

Today is the first day I'll have to test during the day while at work

Thanks Pez, it'll be a couple of months before I get to FC so I thought good to start now, I've been tracking cycles for last 6 months anyway (have been suffering painful periods so GP asked me to monitor cycle lengths etc) good luck today, testing at work!! X

Just catching up with this thread again. Big congrats Kwik, looking thru you have been so brave and so persistent. Everything crossed for an uneventful pregnancy!! Hi to everyone else going about IUIs and treatment shortly and those in early or later stages of pregnancy
Following the bereavement of my daughter, I feel ready now to at least meet with my FC and this is tomorrow.
Spoken to my most local fertility clinic, CARE, Northampton, really alerting them that I want a second opinion, but in fact both places seem keen to suggest that I should consider chromosome testing to ensure am not a genetic carrier!! How awful will it be to discover that my girl had to suffer unnecessarily. Have some questions around the donors genetics as well, not sure if I can find out from Cryos any more than I knew. They are pretty thorough I think, but maybe full karyotype tests are not done, am not sure.
I really don't buy it generally and think it was a one off chance with a 1 pc reoccurrence according to stuff have read on tinternet. Still a professional opinion would still be good and am also seeing my Obs Consultant to get his thoughts too.
I guess I ll have to consider the dreaded AMH too (which was crap 2 years ago, never mind now) to consider whether its going to be worth the gamble or donor eggs/embryos might be the only way. Still I ve had a pregnancy, I may be a bit more fertile now and IVF worked first time and carried my Mabel to almost full term.

My cycles are only just getting back to normal after pregnancy so I guess I ll have to hold off for a few months physically and probably a bit more emotionally, but back on all the yucky supplements, COQ10, DHEA, Multivitamins, Iron, Vitamin D. And now considering B12, vitamin E and zinc in addition. I is a rattling. Need them so am good to go when am ready, to prevent further delays

Am trying to monitor my cycles and used the CB OPKs but have to say according to that machine I was high or peak fertility for 5-6 days recently which makes me question their effectiveness. I do feel I can chart my ovulation by the sharp pains I tend to get and without measuring my temp. Saying that I am in grief so maybe that's why its so crazy because of my emotions. The Boots test was total crap, didn't get anything with them at all. Do you use the onestep cheapies off amazon, Pez?

Has anyone ever used ovusense or duofertility devices?. They are more services and apps with sensors but I guess they are more effective if you have a partner and OPKs are not getting the results, think one is good for measuring cycles with ladies with PCOS. They are expensive so probably a waste of money too
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