TTC for 12 months +

Storm - hopefully AF doesn't take too long for you! Thanks for asking - I'm just plodding along. Good days and bad days, but just getting through them and slowly getting closer to next year. Going to be doing a fertility vlog interview with a friend who does one, so that should be cool :)

Trina I have a blood test on Wednesday and scan on Friday and then ec next week depending on my response to the drugs. Keep me posted on what your bloods and scan show
Thanks bc!

I am at the Otago fertility clinic (ofs). I think I can feel something on my right side already but not too sure.
Naps sound great but I have just been getting to bed early

Any thoughts on fitness? I swam on Friday but happy enough not to bother this week, I normally run the dog in the mornings so will just see how I go, I can always just walk to feel like I am still doing something

Had a lovely weekend, I hope this week goes quickly as is not too stressful in work.

Fx soda - we need a role of bfps in here!!

GL to the ladies gearing up - as the ladies have said, we need some BFPs in here!

I am having a debbie downer day. Two friends announced their births today on FB - one a '2 rounds of clomid and I am pg' baby who started after we started TTC, so its that whole 'timeline' thing getting to me as well. It's a sh*tty bag of emotions - 1) I am happy for them. 2) I want to punch them in the face. 3) I want to punch myself in the face for wanting to punch them in the face. Oh the joys. Doesn't help that she gave birth effortlessly at home and also happens to look like a freakin model hours after! I hate feeling bitter when I want to feel happy - having no control over my body OR my emotions sucks.

Although at least AF arrived - I ended up hearing from Mary and she said to do a HPT (one lonely red line of course) and then start provera. I took it for one day and then the next day AF arrived in full force on her own, so I was able to stop the provera. Tomorrow I start 100mg of clomid (unmonitored) but hold out 0% hope of anything happening. Just pleased I have AF to be honest, at least my body knew how to do that.

Sorry for the downer! Just feeling like total arse TBH. DH tries to understand, but he didn't live and breathe it for the past 3 months like I did, so he doesn't 'quite' get it when I was crying into my cereal bowl this morning, but I knew (hope) you ladies do.

Oh well, at least I am sad in 30+ degrees I guess

Hugs Shimma! I've avoided any friends that announced their pregnancy in the past 12 months...the first 12 mths I was 'ok' and after that I felt peeved at anyone announcing it... really peeved these days

AFM - We're in countdown - 25 days till we start IVF (or get some freaking miracle - no holding out hope there)....This weekend we had a bit of a food/drink splurge with everything that's against the healthy living TTC rules - so no more wine for us - just healthy healthy healthy...(a bit boring, but you do what you have to do).

I'm going to stay away from TWW etc. and just ride this out and then fingers and toes crossed for the next journey.....I'm surely going to be following a string of BFP's in here anyway

Hope everyone had a good weekend... The weather held up okay this end of the country and we got outside and into the gardens.

We're taking our near 3yr old skiing in a couple of weeks - he's a bit of a dare-devil, no fear, as fast as these skis will take me kind of kid,   so it's going to be an exhausting few days of skiing keeping up with him LOL, and then it's his birthday and shortly after, its mine.... so it's going to be a busy few months with everything...

One thing to ask IVF ladies.... with EC etc.. will FA provide medical certs for days off. With my job they get snarky for a day off for the flu let alone anything else - my surgery and hospital stay was a never ending barrage of emails and texts from my bosses about how inconvenient my surgery was given a lot of the team were also on holiday....... so I will need the certificates to shut them up... My local manager knows what's happening, but he's not my direct boss (he's lovely about the whole thing though ) - my direct boss is in Sydney... Locally he said he'll try and manage my work load and travelling so the pressure is off....but there's only so much he can do.....So, just wondering how to manage the days off (especially given I work from a home office - so they view that as 'easier' to work even when sick)...I'm rabbiting on now lol...

Have a good day! Good luck for EC girls! xx

Edited by miss_bling - 28 July 2014 at 9:01am

Read through but I am in work so don't have time for long reply
I was miffed this morning as another guy in works wife is pregnant! So that is one girl in my team finishes end of aug and I sit next to her everyday & three guys wives!
Hugs to all - check in again later

no advice but GL for your scan tomorrow Trinab! 

Hey miss bling,

FA can definitely do a med cert for you. I asked them when I had my EC but they have the letterhead and I hadnt told my work so ended up just getting cert from gp.

Busy busy here today.
GL for the scans and bloods etc this week. Know very well what you're going through.
Soda I am watching and waiting for the magic bfp!
Hugs shimma - lucky you for having such warm weather. Sorry you've been feeling down. I hear you my friend.
And to the others feeling a bit rough (esp with all the announcements) big hugs and love. Nothing I say can make it better.
AFM - think I've got ewcm starting up so fxd ov and AF aren't too far off. This whole ttc garb is a bit much to process at the moment until I get a plan next week. Hence not much commenting presence ( def still reading!).
Anyway have a lovely night. I'm busy trying to let go of my grumpies after coming home to dh not home and front door wide open (country living = normal practice) AND the fire roaring. Good the fires going, meat out for tea etc but no point lighting it if doors open and wood box empty our house is hard enough to hear as it is lol. So slammed a few doors to vent haha. Bless him he'll be pretty pleased with himself for having the fire going gotta love em.