Ongoing and continuing conceptions and follicling ahead of Feisty, Fabulous Forty somethings

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Just to start us off.

May this be a happy and lucky thread for all of us.

I have started a whole discussion about this on my other thread (charters anon). Don't know them all as well as you lot and still get them all muddled up, but it's nice to have extra people to talk to. PLUS, we get a lot of BFP's on there - it appears charting is the way to do it.

I will read the article soon sassy - DH is hovering at the moment!!!

I loved the bit about - He didnt' mention anything about me not having orgasms - maybe he thought I was miserable enough!

I don't usually use the phrase lol cos it's just so silly and 'down with the kids' but i actually did laugh out loud at that bit.

Hi rowingboat Yes, I'm in Edinburgh, on the south-west side... Thank you for the cheering on... We were the Spires fertility clinic the other day - is that where you are having your IVF? We saw a good-looking, well-heeled couple - maybe that was you and DH?

By the way, the article we are discussing says you need to swing during IVF... but tbh, I am vaguely suspicious - cos if it was so important, surely everyone would be being told to do it...

Probably it was all discredited 6 months later.. and here we are stressing, over-shagging and missing our orgasms to boot!

Hi all,

Sassy that was bound to have been us: it sounds just like us (she says tucking her tummy back into her trousers).
I live on the other side of town to you.
We did have one IVF at the Infirmary, it was Doctor Thong. I know he set up another IVF place, possibly called Edinburgh IVF, but I can't remember, it only opened a few months ago I think.
Glasgow Infirmary is supposed to be very good for IVF. Is that what you are looking into or just having a bit of an MOT?
There is a lot of research to suggest that sex during IVF is good for a continuing pregnancy, something to do with seminal fluid being required, which makes perfect sense.
Some places tell you to go to bed with a bed jacket and knitting for 2 weeks after treatment, but that is becoming a bit old hat (night cap?)

Jollister so sorry for you. I know there are not really the words.

Lia How?s it going?

SassySusan it sounds like the clinic appointment went OK. I think you are right to carry on just trying naturally. If you decide to go down the assisted conception route later then you can and you will know you have tried naturally for a while. Of course there is always donor eggs if you want to try that. Looking into donor eggs took me about 2 years to really get my head around donor eggs and reading a book about it helped me. Still, I really hope you will not need them but if you ever want to talk eggs, I am here.

Hippy Hope your legs are OK. I loved the far Away Tree.

Hi gallwaygirl how?s it going?

Gum hi, can I ask where you got that seminal plasma stuff from (not the STUFF the info, I mean!)

Anyone else Frosty, Linda, TFLS, Beattiebow, Alba, and Diege* thinking of you all.

Hi to Jemimapuddlesuck07 and Spottysox - I don?t think we have ?met?. Been away for a while camping. DD enjoyed it a lot. So did DH and I. I have been away and I am just lurking. I am now about one month into a ten month wait for donor eggs, so nine to go, into single figures as of a week on Sunday! I must get myself in the right frame of mind to accept if it does not happen and also get myself fit and healthy!

In spite of advice about small blue plates I am going back to Rosemary Conley, I need the exercise and the support!

I have raging toothache, which they think is a dying nerve under a filling! Lovely!

Love and chocolate boobs to all,

ok 2 things

• Dr Thong? really?
• Lunatic!!! Yay.... did you stick to the floor in East Slope? Did you witness me being in the winning team for the Falmer Bar Pub Quiz TWO YEARS RUNNING 89 and 90 maybe can't remember for sure?????? Sassy I don't think I tried the macaroni - it was cheesy beans wedges that was the height of my culinary FB enjoyment....! there is a Sussex Alumni theme here - any more in the woodwork??

Thanks Italian.... so glad you've popped back in.

would just like to say have rediscovered SB tonight.... gosh I've missed her

Jollster, I'm so sorry, I didn't read the thread and see your news before my post.
I'm so sorry love.

no worries rowing - thanks for your msg.

Keep meaning to say to Hippy; yes have had a really good chat with the EPU about testing (they were proactive and supportive), but am also considering private options... time is of the essence and all that .

OMG!! Lunatic , Jolly and I were sipping halves of cider in Falmer Bar in 1990!

Rowing We saw Dr Thong too - I think it is a hugely inappropriate name for an IVF doctor - I mean what next - Nurse Big Knickers?

We aren't having IVF, as Dr Thong(!!?!!) says we have a better chance of conceiving au naturelle - and we should try for a year, and then PANIC... sorry, I mean, go back for further advice

Now I am wondering if I know you - Edinburgh being a village and all...

Italian thanks for the offer - you will be my first port of call.. I am trying to keep an open mind about what we might end up doing ... BTW, I posted a link to the article you're asking for today at 18.25 ish

halves? Halves?? HALVES???? Methinks not....

I mean.... I'll have you know I was born in Essex, and I'm from Irish stock. We don't DO halves....

Have just remembered it was 80p for a pint

Do you also remember that cocktail bar - it was really small - tucked into the halls way back at the end of the campus - not East Slope the other side...

And it used to do something called a Brain Neutraliser?

I think it was 6 shots of alcohol topped up with lemondae....

No wonder we can't conceive

or even if we can, our eggs are damaged.... Too much pogoing in the Crypt... "Be still and know" has a lot to answer for...

Park Village Cocktail Bar....

That was it....

Always wanted to take DD back to where Mummy when to school - and walk over to that nice cafe in Stanmer - assuming it is still there

no cocktails for me; Irish and Essex you see....

sassy you have made me well up :(

Am liking all this alumni talk - still recovering from my attempts to work out the maths this morning . Could I put a call out for Bangor uni (87-90) and Lancaster 90-95??? Highly unlikely I know
Big snigger at Rowing's Dr.Thong - so famous someone wrote a song about him...
Good to hear from you Italian - the time will fly I promise you x
A question about the regime for Sassy/Hippy if you're doing the old every other day SWI,do you save the orgasms for the most likely day of actual ovulation? Am thinking if you helped it on its way with one,and it was waiting patiently for egg day,and then on the next every other day, you had an orgasm around the time first (from 2 days ago) sperm was trying to implant, would this knock things off,so to speak?? I think I am possibly overthinking this one
Off to bed now, see you all tomorrow!

Here I am... my life has turned full circle... I'm back, talking about cheap booze and semen again...

I hadn't even got on to talking about the Revoluntary What sa ma call its, who used to ambush you outside the library and ask you to support the IRA... certain kudos from attending a uni that didn't have a Conservation Club though xx

Will we get thrown off this board though for not talking enuf SWI and SWOI...

Oh Sassy a perfect pint of Murphy's for you... we're from Dillons and Galvins. Are we related?

Morning all
tipping it down on the coast this morning...
forgot to say to Hippy re my property plan... sold my house, DP's house not only not ready to sell, it's not toddler friendly (stairs and floors are a bit important), so am renting for 6 months, move into DP's, sell that, buy one house at long long long last.... we don't like to rush things , only been together 19 years... SO because I'm mean, I didn't want to spend too much on renting, so went for a smaller place... also the bigger ones available were very revolting studenty.

Hope everyone well - off for acu this morning to hopefully get the old system moving.

Diege Sorry - the best I can do is I once went to a wedding at Lancaster of someone who worked at Lancaster Uni, but whose now a Professor at Manchester. I know that is a rather tenuous link

Oophs - didn't mean to send that....

and yes, I think you are over-thinking the orgasms - though I am impressed you can "save" them... I suppose the best you could do is not cum whilst SWITI - I'm going to use that acronym a lot now - I am very vain and like the idea of introducing a word into the language...

Jolly hope today is not too stresseful. xx

All this talk of NOT having orgasms is just plain silly! Why else would we bother?...Erm, that's right, because of the intimacy etc...

You know what I mean, though.It's not as if we don't have enough to worry about with this ttc business. I'm just going to continue on as normal.

When I think about how easy it was to get pregnant pre - old age (first four conceived first try every time, all under the age of 35)it makes this all the more frustrating.But
I'm not giving up yet.

Just ordered this book www.amazon.com/Spirit-Babies-Communicate-Child-ebook/dp/B001O1O7HQ/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1282209045&sr=1-1
Although it may sound a bit too "out there", I really like what was said in the reviews, so I'll have a read of it. I don't think it'll do any harm.

I hope that I have a bfp before the book arrives (it takes ages to get to Australia from the U.S.)

Not sure what to think, but have had other little symptoms, and I should probably ignore them.

Did any of you have symptoms before the bfp? What were they?

I've been feeling awfully bloated. I reckon I'd pass as 6 months pregnant, but it's all just hot air! Any one else have that as a symptom, or should I just eat more prunes(or maybe that's the problem!?)

Have you tried the "comfort tea" that Aveda makes? I had some in the salon last weekend and loved it. But it is really expensive ($40 - about 20 pounds I think).I had a craving for it today. I suppose I could just buy something herbal with licorice in it, although this one is quite subtle, and so yummy. I might even just splurge and get some.Anything to help relaxation.

Hippy, I'm going to check out your charting thread as I am also charting.

gum see you on the charting thread. We get loads of BFp's on there but I'm not sure of their ages. For some reason I have great difficulty remembering who is who on there but can always remember you lot (ahhhh how sweet).

I think I agree with you. I am not gonna get too hung up about not having an orgasm. I can't believe I could actually contract so much that Icould discourage an embryo from implanting. And as you say, it just gets too complicated.

diege I didn't start SWi last night becuase 1) it was our weding anni and we went out for a curry so by the time we got home we were both full of curry and DH was also full of beer. 2) my endo pain was ragging yesterday and 3) No EWCM so not entirely necessary. HOWEVER, ewcm has arrived today so have donned a lovely vest top and am showing cleavage. (my 7 year old just tried to pull my top back up and told me he could see my 'bangs' - "good", I thought - "they're for daddy to look at!"

No university for me I'm afraid - I fear I'm the thicko of this gang

italian loved the comment - where did you get the seminal fluid from???? ha ha

jolly Good luck at the accu appointment. I wish once we knew that the little bean hadn't made it that there was some magic way to get the pregnancy out without the need of an EPRC or a MC. I am still so bloody mad that you are back here again.

There is a line in a Ting Ting's song - 'We've come so far, yet back to the start. ' It's just so crap isn't it my love .

sassy I really hope there will be another little sassy to take to see your uni and I am just so very sorry that you didn't get to take Katherine - Oh blimey, I want to hug you again.