Assisted conception and the bits inbetween Part Two!.......

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Hi everyone.
New thread starts here....

Yes, I work in a grass skirt everyday! I wasn't born in Hawaii (I'm a 6' blonde-redhead) - just moved here about 5 and a half years. Met DH here, and we intend to stay in paradise for the long term. Cost of living is crazy, but it's worth it if you can adapt. (We do have a coconut palm in our front yard that is laden with fruit!) ok- I'll stop now...

LL YES - same day as me May 8th! I'm trying hard to hold onto my sanity as well, so far so good - but I too can go berzerk at any moment. We'll be strong together! (I had a great baby dream last night, very realistic. It was my first baby dream.) :::still keeping a lid on my hope:::

I love the idea of acupunture, reflexology and massage. I haven't been in ages, so I'll try to schedule an apt this week or next - to give me something to do, something fun and relaxing.

duplo seems like you are on the same schedule as well. Thanks for the info on brie, darn near bought some on Sunday. Is it the cultures that are bad for pg? I guess I just figured I know the biggies, no alcohol, no sushi, no hair color... the rest I'd have to learn if I'm ever so lucky enough to actually conceive!

sorry forgot to say - May 8th will be 15 dp IUI, 17 dp ovidrel shot. I'm not exactly sure how many hours after the injection ovulation occurs, but they do the IUI 36 hours after shot. make sense? I think AF is due around May 10th (how sweet, she also showed up for Easter! )

Hi everyone,
I am just about to catch up with you all, but wanted to say I am just back from the clinic.
It's a bit tricky to keep the connection here and the battery always seems too low, so you can't just relax.
We all trooped up this morning with DS, it seems the staff hadn't really considered that DP or I would have to be available to look after him, so they hurriedly whisked DP off for his romantic encounter with a plastic cup. Whose DP was interrupted in the little room? That sounded awful, poor boy!
I went off to get knocked-out: you know when you are thinking about how to escape and hyper-ventilating, bit like that, but looking quite collected on the outside. The next thing I woke up in a room full of other women wearing the same outfit as me (featuring strings tied at the back and plastic booties.)
Felt pretty groggy and they nurse managed to smash a hooge picture of a horrible cartoon ballerina - keraaash! Very relaxing!
I think I was lounging around in that room for around an hour and a half then back downstairs to meet the doc.
He reckons that there are ten egg, which is a bit odd because there were nine follicles. I wonder if he can count?
He said ' go home and go to bed' Cha right!
First thing I did when I got in was have a cuppa coffee. mmmmmm! Horrible Hungarian instant, which totally doesn't dissolve. Still nice after weeks with none.
He reckons they will know tomorrow how many were mature and how many will be fertilised tomorrow, so won't think about that at all.
Lottie, I think you should be playing lotto and litto classical music and yoga sounds perfect. You can't get onto the internet, just like me! Actually, it's been a good thing as far as I am concerned, just makes you start thinking about things you can't really control.
Are you going to tell them about the two ELDs (extremely little dudes)? So they can make sure you do the best stuff and avoid any non-baby friendly moves.
Issy, I'm sorry I'm struggling here, that's great news about the 8 little fellas. I'm sure they are all working away and getting nice and fat and round.
It's so hard to get this thread loaded here, it's getting very long isn't it!
Big hugs to everyone.

Congrats RB - can't wait to hear how the embies are doing!

LL tbh I usually start testing a few days before... but don't get me started thinking about that! wednesday-ish? UGH, just the thought of it and a BFN is getting to me!!!

You have a much better chance than I do, so I know you must be excited. At least you know they fertilized, I have no idea if DH's 75 million did the trick this time.

Is there something else you can do to take your mind off of it? What can you do for hours and hours, if you could? Shop? Play cards? (don't say google ttc things!)

There is so much we cannot control, so it's just better to go along for the ride.

I've got a headache... (not symptom spotting - nope, I'm not going to do it...)

PS great website LL!

ll & Islegrin -- stay positive ladies, back away from POAS!!!

LL - as a yogi addict, i would advise doing yoga this weekend.Or certainly tell your instructor you are PUPO. cos there are some positions you really shouldn't do. And ask if they have any experience in pg yoga. Otherwise avoid and use the opportunity to stay off t'internet and chillax.

Perhaps we should give you some onerous task to do each day that absorbs your wandering mind!!!

I tested early as you know for the recent IVF, didn't dare for the first one. However, this time around I had unmistakable symptoms that I had the first time and a very weird day after all that morphine with the kidney stones where my atoms felt on fire and I felt that this maybe it.. or maybe I was still hallucinating from the morphine.

I have the cd's also and I found it much harder to switch off, but you will over time if you listen to them repeatedly. Although this time around, I got really annoyed by the ladies voice. not a good start

RB - hope all is going well and fingers crossed for fertilisation and ET. Your experience sounds slightly surreal! I am keeping fingers crossed for you. This time around I ended up having ET on my own cos DH had to look after DD. Which was bizarre, but nothing we could do about it!

right off to bed as tired as hell. sending you baby dust and hugs and love to all

Hi all
just quick note.
Blood test this morning showed HCG level up from 357 on Sunday to 2835!
I stopped bleeding on Tuesday night but then started a bit again yesterday.
I have a funny feeling...not period pain and not really painful but I'm thinking positive...which is quite hard.
Have been asked by few people if this means I'm actually preg but I can't bring myself to say the words...I keep waiting for something bad to happen.
Anyway, scan on Sunday and have to keep injecting 100cc progesterone a day until then. My poor butt is so sore. I've seriously never felt like this much of a pin cushion. At today's jab the nurse couldn't get the stuff out even with 2 hands so she pulled needle out and put it in again somewhere else...
anyway, DH just arrived home so must pay him some attention

Thanks for the babydust Flibberty .
Lottie - Send that friend round my house, cake and washing-up, what more could a girl want . Have a lovely weekend away and try to stay away from the tests. There's nothing wrong with talking to the little fellas, I've been talking to my eggs and they're over a mile away .
Duplo - enjoy the soft cheese. Are you sniffing or injecting for down-regging? You will find the 2 to 3 litres of water easy as the headaches will make you want to drink - they go away quite quickly when you do. Enjoy your weekend with friends.
Isle - How romantic to meet your DH in Hawaii. I always though ov happened 36-40 hours after the Ovitrelle but it must be a little later as my EC was just over 36 hours after my shot. Try not to test early.
KC11 - Good luck with the fitness regime. I've heard that stomach crunches are bad when ttc, but not sure if this is true. LL introduced me to couch to 5K running thing, which I found quite good being totally unfit. Shame I hurt my knee half way through.
RB - Poor DH. 10 eggs is great - one must have been hiding or got bigger since your final scan. How are they doing?
Gilly - Only 2 sleeps now. Hope your house valuation is OK - I think they usually state the value of the offer unless it's seriously out. 4th June sounds ages but is actually only 5 weeks and it will pass very quickly.

Thanks everyone for all the good wishes for my eggs. Have had such a nerve-wracking morning waiting for the call to let me know if any of them have become embies ... all 8 cleaved. 4 are doing really well, they are good or average and 6 to 8 cell as expected by the embryologist, 1 is going a little too fast and 3 a bit slow, but none are ruled out at this stage. Am so relieved, but have to keep my feet on the ground as there is still a chance that they won't make it until Saturday, so still finger-twiddling. Keep finding myself looking in the direction of the hospital and willing them to be OK.

Sorry Heidi - cross post. Great news on those hcg levels. Fingers crossed for your scan on Saturday.

Hi. I have given in to temptation and have just emailed my clinic to remind them I am waiting for a follow up clinic appointment as I think they'll forget to send me a letter and then I'll have to wait even longer to start Round 2 of IVF. I know no-one will see it til Tuesday but i do feel better now I've sent it.

Will post more later. I am leaving the office now. YIPPEEE

Issy thinking of you and your little embies!!!

duplo how are you doing?

LL are you going mad or have you found something else to do to distract yourself?

7 days out from when I should test, and I started symptom spotting - ugh! It's too early to get excited - seven days. BTW is a sore throat a symptom of pg??? just kidding!

I have 7-10 people coming over to the house, so that should help keep my mind off of things. I'm still trying to look forward to the next cycle rather than hoping for this one, but then I realized that I'll be traveling for 3 weeks of the next cycle (without DH!) - so I'll have to take a break next month. So no February babies for me.

I'm doing fine, much better controlling my excitement this month than last - I'm just beginning to think about it.

Waving to everyone else!

Thanks Lottie and Gilly. Glad you had a good appointment today Gilly - it makes such a difference when you feel listened to doesn't it? Hope you manage to get a cancellation. And it doesn't sound pathetic, having a good GP is important.

Getting so scared now that none of them will have made it to tomorrow. Doesn't help that a magpie wandered right up to my door earlier (have a glass door to garden in my living room), but it was after midday and I saluted it - ttc has turned me into a superstitious wreck, now that is pathetic. The clinic told me to expect only 30-50% to make it and not to expect any to freeze, so have to keep reminding myself that they only need 1.

Just popped in to say. I am still lurking about even though am not doing any assisted conception stuff at the mo. But fingers crossed for all.

only exciting news here, is that we have booked our flights to Australia (via mini break in Hong Kong) yesterday. So looking forward to that. Might try IVF again in Autumn, but at the moment I am enjoying my weekly acupuncture and medicine. Unfortunately doc reckons we might need to use some stronger meds, which means the seriously yukky teas!

Good luck all and lots of hugs all round.

Hi NV - lovely to hear from you. Australia and Hong Kong sounds wonderful. Is there any way you can disguise the taste of the yukky teas?

I had a double blast transfer today. I was only going to have one, as my consultant told me at my initial appointment that they only do a single transfer at blast stage due to risk of twins and that success rate was 70%. Today, however, they told me that success rate for single blast was only 45% and for double 60%. If I get pg then risk of twins is 40%, but triplets only 1%, so decided to risk it. The others didn't make it. There was one catching up slowly but not good enough to freeze. My OTD is 15th May but there is someone in my office going on maternity leave that day so I may wait until the Saturday - or at least test when I get home from work.

Hope you're all enjoying the long weekend.

Thanks Gilly. Trying very hard to not think ahead but keep finding myself looking at the picture my clinic sent me. (I put it in my mumsnet gallery but for some reason the link to my pics didn't appear on my profile page, so made it the main picture temporarily - I'll take it off soon though.)

Issy Congrats! I saw the pic of your two blasts - very cool! I know a picture helps to make the idea of this whole adventure very real - they are inside now, and finding the best place to stick! Rest, enjoy and good luck.

LL how are you holding up?