Fantastic news Robber absolutely thrilled for you and DH, what a relief. I know the reassurance it offers is short lived, but it is a another hurdle cleared.
In terms of exercises - ask away! Not sure how much help I will be, but v glad you have a referral made in the mean time. Everyone’s issues will vary slightly, but I seem to remember exercises like variations on a clam, and piriformis stretching / using the foam roller or spikey balls on my IT band , being helpful at Pilates My women’s physio told me to come back at 12 weeks - obvs I didn’t get that far, so not sure what she would have recommended after that point. I also found ankle supports pretty invaluable because mine are massively unstable to begin with.
Tiger all sounding most promising indeed! I’d agree with Bip about the scan - an early one can check if the sac is in the right place, but may be too early to see a hb, thereby inducing potentially unnecessary terror (is there no hb cos there’s no hb, or because it’s too early to see one).
Bloods wise, I appreciate that the 3ww is in many way just as bad as the 2ww. Bloods give more info, but if you do them privately, will you be able to get support from your clinic to interpret them? hCG results are so variable, that they have massive potential to shit you up (again, potentially unnecessarily) if you just have the numbers, without the clinical interpretation of a Dr to understand the implications of those numbers
blue completely agree that measuring cervix length is absolutely not a failsafe, and unfortunately these things can (and did) strike completely unexpectedly. However if there are factors that might increase the likelihood of IC, then being aware of them might help to reduce the risk (if not eradicate it entirely), if the measurements indicated the need for a preventative stitch as a cautionary measure. Hope the d/r is going well
bean great news about the cyst!
Skype consult with the US Dr about surrogacy was good - he was really nice, and said we don’t have a fertility problem, we have a lining problem (which is exactly how our Dr has described it). He agreed with all the proposed treatment and said there wasn’t anything he would do differently. Which gives me confidence in our current course of action, but obvs a little part of me would have liked it if there was something that had been overlooked that we could also try.
He said our embryos were precious and that we should proceed carefully - he agreed that 2 more transfers as a limit was sensible. He said we needed to feel we’d tried everything before deciding to move on to surrogacy - but equally that we had an excellent chance with a gestational carrier with euploid blasts.
He said he hoped very much that our current plan would work out but that the only way we’d know would be to have a run at it. Just have to roll the dice and see what happens really. He said to please do keep in touch as let him know how we got on, and that he was there if we needed anything in the mean time.
He did ask me at the end who my consultant was, and apparently knew his name and said that I was in excellent hands. So good to know his reputation crosses the Atlantic!