Hi pop, sometimes routine does help. Lots of people take two weeks off after egg collection with ivf but I have a low stress office job compared to the classroom which was the whole reason for leaving teaching, not going through ivf while in the job , so I think it will actually help keep me occupied. Not comparing that to your situation, just agreeing with the routine helping you to return to a level of normality as well as helpful distraction.
Minnie sometimes it's good to be able to recognise those stages of grief and realise that it means you're a little further along the road 
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brummie/girlie/flen I find the anticipation worse than the actual day, with my 1st edd I was in pieces the day before (and on honeymoon, not good) but the actual day was ok, I managed to think and reflect rather than be hysterical.
mrsd I'm getting loads of attention from the dog at the moment, which is not the normal state of play in our house. He would normally stick to DH like glue but he's been cuddling up to me on the sofa for the last week, and not even going over to dh when he asks him to!! He must be helping me sit on the nest in the hope that some eggs will hatch on Monday!! 
Nearly another thread down!!! Do you know what would be really helpful at the top of the next thread? A list all in one place of everyone with just the bare details - I really struggle with so many names to remember who is pg and who isn't, and who is trying for #1 and who already has a dc. And then I get worried I'll say the wrong thing because I'm thinking of someone else. I generally have it right in my head, but then with similar names (and I'm talking about mixing up those starting with the same letter eg counting/cloud, never mind floweroct/flower29!) it's difficult to keep track! The proper stats are all very helpful, but they tend to be spread out over the first 100 posts at the speed these threads move!!! Would anyone have any objections? I'm not doing anything today other than telling my follicles to get the eggs ready for Monday, so happy to trawl through and collect the data then put a list in one of the first posts so people can refer to it if they find it helpful? Don't want to offend anyone though.
As an aside, anyone got any advice on uti's? Only ever had one once before, then had one during the iui and for the last few days I've felt like I need a wee all the time, only I don't. I've been upping the fluid intake to help the eggs, but it's the feeling of still needing a wee when I've just been. I'm convinced the uti had an effect on the iui so I'm really worried it's going to mess up the ivf.