@Enfys23 I am so sorry to hear your work is so shitty and unsupportive, I literally do not know what I would do or had done with a different employer through 2 years of miscarriages, infertility and appointments. Within what really is nothing but a terrible predicament I wish I wasn't finding myself in, I count my blessing that my work has been very understanding about it all and have good fertility treatment, maternity and women's health policies in place, plus my manager has been very supportive and flexible outside that. But it's really upsetting to hear that some just won't get it and won't help, have you already tried escalating things? I don't know how helpful that may be of course, I am so sorry.
@Gardenlady543 sorry to hear about your cough and cold, I guess you'll be a little more prone to that sort of thing with all immuno-suppressant? I hope it passes soon.
@2021ivfagain good luck with your transfer next week and sorry about the continued reasons to stress and something new cropping up every day. For my FET at CRGH, I also ended up getting scanned and having bloods for 3 days in a row at the end of stims/trigger as they could not pinpoint my ovulation exactly on the scan alone, but eventually were happy with the bloods. Of course my transfer didn't result in a successful pregnancy, but implantation did occur so hopefully they have got it right even if they cannot see the CL, which may be hard to spot sometimes.
@Spin101 tell me about it! so sick of constant sacrifices. If you had a few drinks and still managed to get 4 euploids on your last collection, I think probably alcohol does not impact you that much as long as you don't have a massive binge or drink several times a week you're probably fine? I don't remember the exact details, but I massively cut down to just maybe 2-3 glasses of wine a week when initially TTC. After my first miscarriage, for pregnancy 2 and 3 I drank no alcohol at all for 2 and 3 months respectively and still miscarried (the third being a confirmed aneuploidy). In the run-up to pregnancy 4 I drank mostly nothing except for the week prior to conception as we treated ourselves to a rare short holiday, I drank a bottle of this 2% lager a night with my meal for the 4 days we were away, on the first night I also had one small cocktail. I do not thing that amount of alcohol would really do that much damage to eggs! For my EC cycle I touched absolutely zero alcohol for almost the whole 3 months leading up to it and our of 12 mature eggs, I got just one single euploid so...
Have a friend who has 3 beautiful children naturally and she always enjoyed quite the drink, definitely did not stop before trying and was even enjoying the odd beer or glass of wine whilst pregnant in the second and third trimester.
The thing is, it's so so super hard to sacrifice everything all the time for a long time and there's the filp side to that too, the stress from quitting everything and trying to be perfect may make things worst for you anyway, so hard!
I really doesn't seem to have made much of a difference to me either way so in the run up to this natural cycle, I've had the odd drink - none at all since AF arrived. But I had about maybe 6 units when visiting some old friends at the end of May and another 6 last weekend when visiting another old friend, plus a couple of occasions in between when I might have had literally 2-3 at the time with food, but that's it.