Anyone starting IVF soon? Join me.

[Shellster52]

After 3 full failed IVF's last year, I am about to embark on my second last attempt. I started an IVF thread during my last IVF, and everyone got pregnant but me. So I swore I wouldn't do that again this time. But I find myself wanting to chat with people going through what I am, so I am starting the thread again. Join me as I seem to be a BFP magnet!

Waiting for the clinic to call to say whether our embie(s) have thawed.... Our appt for ET is at 11am...

Emma, the measurement lines of the Mooncup are new to me and may have sold it to me tbh. I've been considering buying one for some time, though hopefully won't need to use one for a little bit longer!

I did BBT before our fresh IVF cycle. It drove me crazy tbh. When TTC becomes the first thing you must think about every day, it's not great, (even if TTC was probably the first thing I thought about every day prior to doing BBT!!) I didn't find it v useful. It just stressed me out more.

Got the call!! Our best grade frostie survived the thaw! Embryo transfer will be at 1030 this morning.

Eek! Exciting inconceivable! Good luck.

Thanks Smidge. Transfer done. 11 days until test day....

Great news, Inconceivable, so exciting. So I'm assuming that they thawed out the best one and because it survived (hooray!) you keep the others on ice as insurance? We only had the one frosty, so I never got to unravel thawing strategy!

Emma - you are officially a Yoghurt Weaver! (welcome to the club! I look forward to discussing washable nappies with you down the line ). Well done for giving Smidge some practical advice though, rather than just sniggering childishly. And can't believe I didn't think to suggest mooncup...I've slightly fallen out of love with mine, but used also to use it post sex while ttc the old-fashioned way.

On BBT, I am too rubbish first thing in the morning to take reliable temperatures, but again, pre-IVF, I used a Duofertility monitor and so I had two years worth of temperature data and a report from their lab to take to my first IVF appointment. Think the consultant thought I was nuts (may have had a point), but actually, I'd learned some useful things about my cycle and the monitor spotted my chemical pregnancies that I would probably have missed otherwise.

Inconceivable, congratulations!! Well done, that's so exciting, how do you feel? Fingers crossed you shan't need a Mooncup for quite some time!

Purple, so on board with cloth nappies! Every couple of months I start stalking batches of them on ebay thinking, I should stock up now to spread out the cost -- I'd have about eighty by this point if I'd ever done it!

I have never used the Mooncup post-sex, but I am sold!! What an amazing idea!

Smidge, I think I got my Mooncup via Amazon, for £17, which seemed outrageously expensive but was the cheapest I could find. They're supposed to last up to ten years, though, which saves a bundle on disposables -- and, as we've all learned, have multiple uses!

I did chart BBT for about about fourteen months until I realised it was stressing me out so much that it could only be counteracting the benefits of actually knowing when I was ovulating. I was only doing it this month to make sure I'm ovulating, and that ended up being inconclusive anyway! Still, I agree that I have a much better understanding of my cycle having done it, even if it is a pain in the arse.

Ha ha! Cloth nappies rock. ds had the brightest, fluffiest bottom on the planet .

In other news, our dog has taken to licking my face enthusiastically and repeatedly, the last couple of days. He's never done this before...not sure if I dare to hope that he's trying to tell me something...

That's a new one for symptom spotting purple! Love it.

I thought you were doing well keeping sane Purple and wandered how you seem so amazing when I am not. But face licking from your dog as a sign you are pregnant helps pull me back to my reassured world that I am not the only insane one in all this!

Mooncup eh. I had heard of people tracking their blood flow and wondered how they did it. I too am a cloth nappy fan - I will actually look forward to washing and drying them after staring at them in a box in the corner of the spare room for so long.

So Annie and Purple in the 2ww is now joined by inconceivable. It's all happening. And Emma too if we count natural. Well me as well if counting natural but AS IF. But hubby - after about two years of seeming depressed and difficult to live with - has decided he needed to change his attitude to get out of his rut and is like a new man to live with. He also started going to the gym twice. So I can't help but hope that this has helped his sperm and I will miraculously fall pregnant this month!

Ha ha! I can see why I might come across as a bit of a fruitcake for that comment...but actually the dog has form! He "outed" a pregnant friend last year, who was too early to announce, but he just wouldn't leave her alone. So just maybe....

I'm so pleased to hear about dh, Shellster - whatever the outcome, it's so much easier when you can pull together rather than you feeling that you're making all the effort and just getting negativity back. Sending you all good wishes for a surprise miracle

I'm still feeling remarkably calm at this stage. Weird dreams, but not in a bad way, just very vivid. And I've adjusted the timings of the "bum bullets" which seems to have stopped them causing me such bad muscle aching in the night, so my sleep has improved.

I've found this week quite emotional - have you seen all the stuff on facebook about Baby Loss Awareness Week? Lots of candles etc., I'm all in favour - think we all need to talk more about miscarriage and smash the taboo, but it's not easy. I can't believe how many of my close friends and family have been affected by baby loss in one form or another - many I knew about, but so many that I didn't. xxx

Annie - how are you doing?

Purple now you have mentioned the dog licking I am going to pray that my little pug lLily attacks me on the sofa one night licking me to death!!!

All joking aside though the three times my best mate has been pregnant (yes 3 and never even tried, if she wasn't my best mate I might be a little miffed!) when she has been round my dog lily who usually doesn't bother with her will not leave her alone and is straight on her lap!

xxxx

I think we'll all be seeking out dogs to test this on!

The day before my wedding, I slipped down an outdoor metal fire escape in the rain, bumped all the way down, smashed my watch and landed, sitting in a puddle, as the weekly bus service pulled up at the stop level with me. I had bumped my bum on each step, and smashed my arm into the railings. I wasn't at all worried about the bruising on my bum, but my wedding dress was sleeveless and I was really upset that I might have a horribly bruised arm.

As it happened, my arm didn't bruise at all. My bottom turned complete purple and I drank too much champagne and showed it to pretty much everybody during the evening do. I'm only grateful that MIL had already retired to bed at that point!

Oops. That was supposed to be posted on completely another thread about being accident prone. Oh well! xxx

Good luck to everyone on the two week wait. Fingers crossed for some BFPs coming up soon.

That is interesting about the pregnancy detecting dog. I wonder if cats are any good at that sort of thing or if it is just dogs...

Brilliant that has made me laugh Gobigorange!

Well I am on a high this afternoon girls just rang the clinic for my AMH result and the nurse told me I have a high ovarian reserve! The normal range is between 6.8 and 20.3 and mine is 31.2. I was sat here I work earlier thinking what will we do next if she calls back and says it is low.

She has confirmed I will start the pill for 2 weeks on the 28/11 then start injections on 16/12, 1st scan on 29/12, scan on 5/1 then 9/1 then egg collection on 12/1 all being well so its great to now have a plan.

Looking forward to my appointment on 11/11 now to get the screening done and my meds so I can get going on the 28th!

Sorry to go on but the relief of that AMH result has made me go a bit silly and I have no one here at work I can share it with!

As GoBig Orange says wishing all you two week waiters loads of luck xxx

Great news, Anroga - hooray!
I'm thinking that Psychic Dog might just have been unusually pleased to see me...I'm spotting a little today. If he proves his abilities though, I might start hiring out his services

That's great news anroga!

How are the other 2WWers doing? I'm only a day in but am insanely tired. Trying not to read anything into that. Think it's just all the unconscious stress coming out. I'm still quite hungry too - the FET drugs made my appetite go through the roof. Amongst other things, I've been eating pineapple core since yday. Apparently it helps with implantation. And am continuing with Brazil nuts for my lining.

Take care all!

How many days past transfer are you now, purple?

Yes, I've done the pineapple thing each time too, inconceivable. I really love pineapple, so it's no great hardship for me. I had to defend it from DH this time though, because I'd done the thing where you cut the pineapple into 5 pieces and eat the whole thing over 5 days, and he was wanting in! I felt really mean saying "go and get your own pineapple, this is part of my treatment plan!"

cross posts. I'm 9 days post-transfer. Last Weds.

So testing soon...? Sending you positive vibes!!

Thank you....

....feeling a bit low today. I've got a little bleeding. It's not my usual brownish pre-AF spotting, but a little trickle of fresh red blood. Of course, I am taking aspirin and injecting myself with blood-thinning heparin (you should see my tummy - talk about black and blue! The jabs really sting, too - and to think I complained about the Gonal-F pen!) so I'm quite likely to have an implantation bleed even if it's all good news. Heavens, maybe it's just that there are three of them digging in...

...but, you know. It's blood and I don't like it.

Oh purple that would make me concerned too, but try not to get too worried, it really doesn't mean anything either way. At 9 days post transfer I'm surprised you're holding out so well not to poas! (Though actually I can't recall if you were a 3 or 5 day embie transfer, so it may still be too soon)

I'm interested to hear you say it looks different from your normal pre-AF spotting. For me I had spotting (and I'm afraid it was a BFN), but my spotting was just like normal pre-AF. Given you are taking blood thinning drugs I'm sure that could impact things too and have absolutely no bearing on whether it's stuck. Also, i've read so many other people on hear had spotting yet went on to get a BFP. So FX.

So basically I'm no help , but I do have every sympathy - the waiting game is awful.

Oh - another thought, are you taking progesterone at all? I was taking pessaries twice a day and that can apparently cause some spotting too (especially the longer you take them as the irritation can build up).

Thanks, Smidge, that helps.
My transfer was day 2 and my test day from the clinic is Weds. AF would actually be due on Tuesday if it were a "normal" cycle - and I don't normally spot for more than a day or so, so this is really quite early. I guess I need to hang on to any difference between this and "normal" spotting to stay sane for the next few days.