Haven't had enough reception since Friday to get on the app, so lots to catch up on!! Apologies for the epic post to catch up on the last 3 days!!
bythesea your comment made me laugh 'I hope you can chill out over the weekend a bit and have some time for yourself'
I've just got back from a festival that I took my two little brothers to (aged 7 and 14, both with 'difficulties' shall we say, both previously foster children who social services failed to find succesful adoptive placements for and ended up staying with my parents) on my own... Obviously this was booked before we knew about the ivf timing, and before I was told I would be doing fragmin injections, and definitely before the bad news on Thursday... So no chilling out and no time to myself (just picture me in the 'privacy' of the bedroom compartment of a tent, trying to get the injection done whilst shouting through the canvas that they needed to stop fighting and leave each other alone).
But it's all over now, Mum had a long overdue break so it was worth it, and I've picked up the dog from my mate's house and passed both boys and the dog over to her. No dog walker available this week again so my Mum is taking the dog for me. Also means no 6am dog walks and no barking dog in the evening (he's over protective when DH isn't around, and when I'm emotional he's even worse).
freckle I'll call shotgun on the next thread if it handily looks like running out when I'm near my laptop!! Not even going to attempt to do it from my phone!!
freckle/minnie/kazz The blood test is next Saturday - which will effectively be 14dpo. I'll poas in the morning, but have to go to the clinic for a blood test and call for the official result at 1.30. They'll look at the hcg levels to see if it looks like a viable pg and book an early scan if it's a positive result.
oneday I've said it many times on here before, but I'm a big fan of acupuncture. You definitely have to get the right person though. I'm on my 4th, but she's amazing 
. With the ivf, it's as much about managing my stress levels as relaxing the uterus and keeping the blood flowing, and she does that amazingly well. Not sure how I would have coped without her on Thursday, went both before and after the transfer, was in tears before because we'd lost the first embryo and DH was not with me, and in tears afterwards because the second embryo had suffered in the freeze and was poor quality. Both times she talked to me, listened, put needles in accordingly and calmed me right down. And she even said both sessions were on her, despite her only being in work that day to see me, and then wait while I was at the hospital until I came back again. I think I'm going to take flowers next time I'm in!
girlie I agree with flen, find someone that feels right to you. I hated the first woman I saw, was indifferent and not confident about the second, the third was great, and managed to get my cycles sorted post mc when nothing else had worked for 6 months to produce anything more than random spotting. After the second mc I needed a change though, I had too many associations with going to that building. I then found my current lady who is just wonderful .
brummie that's so lovely that your parents are celebrating 
bumble Friday was a lot better, thanks. Plenty to distract me at the festival like watching my brothers like a hawk and more acceptance of the situation. Better to lose an embryo now, than this cycle fail and then start the next cycle with that one in the freezer only for there to be nothing to put in on transfer day. What will be, will be, as they say.
march DH managed to get to a town and get a local sim card - he then called the landline and we managed to talk for a few minutes, which was nice although it just made me more emotional He was quite upset that he wasn't here to support me, and said he wished he'd never gone away. Apparently he's just worrying about me all the time and never wants to go away without me again let's wait and see what happens there
Glad the consultant seems more agreeable to you now 
. Excellent news on another scan.
sebs aw thanks 
. You're so close! I think this is your time. I hope you can brave looking at the screen on Wednesday and get to see something to make you smile
brummie/sasha I saw the Mark Z thing but was distracted by their dog in the photo - what an awesome dog!!
mrsc excellent scan news
girlie I don't actually remember that bit of the film, but as soon as it became clear that the dog was going to die at some point I switched it off. My dog is going to outlive me. Fact. I don't need to see anything suggesting otherwise. 
brummie what's PROM?
oneday quiet congratulations As has already been said, this is a different pregnancy, different everything. There's no reason history has to repeat itself. Are you going to ask for an early scan?
mrsd when I told people about the mcs it was partly because it was important to me to acknowledge that I had been pregnant, even if I couldn't show off the baby. It felt like part of me, and I didn't want to hide it.
minnie thinking about you for Thursday. Every pregnancy is different and that includes everyone else's - other people's scan results have no bearing on yours. I know that you know this deep down, but sometimes it's helpful to be reminded as it's so difficult to be positive and believe everything is going to be okay at times should listen to my own advice
Bumble you can stop with the negativity too, while I'm being stroppy . That 1 in 4 thing just means that for all our great scans, some women out there who we've never met and probably didn't even want to be pregnant or know that they were, have lost their babies. Not us. Not this thread. It's quite possible that we can ALL have good scan news, and the bad scans can all go to nameless, faceless women elsewhere....
biscuits I want to know what the other quote was now!
flen I'm on the avoidance as well! Even DH will switch channels if a pg woman walks onto the screen!! We were watching How I Met Your Mother last year, the one where Lily finds out she's pg, and her and Marshall jump up and down screaming 'we're going to have a baby' and DH said to the screen 'fuck off, it doesn't happen like that' 
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monten glad I could be some service! As I'm sure you'll now be aware, the next 5 days are going to be ridiculously anxious for her - I found it really supportive when friends in the know texted to say they were thinking of me - it made me feel comfortable giving them updates rather than wondering if I was oversharing and they didn't want daily updates on how many eggs we got, how many fertilised, how many were left at day 3, how many reached blastocyst by day 5 etc. Everything crossed for your scan. Wow, it really is a big scan day on Thursday, will be away for a couple of days trying to keep my own anxiety in check, so I hope I have wifi!!!
onestep It's bittersweet isn't it? I don't get 
as much on this thread as I don't expect the same chances, but it's hard on the fertility boards when others with 'unexplained infertility' find success on their first ivf cycle, or get a surprise natural bfp (which ridiculously makes me feel like they cheated!) and I'm still there three years on while some who started on the infertility thread with me are now on their second pregnancy.... It's a perfectly normal emotion though 
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longest glad you had a lovely trip, sound wonderful
allmychildren my wtf cycle lasted 6 months after my 1st mc and 8 weeks after my 2nd, and I'm unconvinced I ovulated in either, so I have no advice at all I'm afraid!
Brummie could be worse than tescos, could have been a portaloo at a festival
oneday that quote reminds me of a meme a friend shared on fb - picture of two babies, caption: My mum went through IVF to have me, what did your mum do? For those that can see pictures, here's a couple more on the same theme (if I can attach them to the next post).