TTC for 12 months +

Sending you lots of love and strength for your journey Poppy, I don't know anything about your baby's condition, but I do think all babies are special xo


Does anyone follow Melody McCabes Blog? (used to be on essential mums, but now just on her own one hopefulmama) They had a gender surprise cake today - here's some photos, so sweet https://twitter.com/SweetReleaseWLG/status/627721222013321216

Oh Poppy of course you can post in here! Hugs hun what an experience for you xxx hope you have lots of support and live around you right now xxx
A.girl hugs to you too! Crazy hoe much this yruly takes over our lives huh. Hopefully its not all a waste of money xx
Well AF arrived today- didnt expect it for a few more days but wasnt really charting so might have got my dates wrong?? But anyway CD1 Here of our last cycle before going back on clomid. Then straight after that cycle hubbys away for a month so thatl be it until november. So going to do all i can to be healthy this month, cutting processed sugar and lowering my caffeine intake. And just try to enjoy it before we are fully in the swing of things again.

Thanks Dolly, Star and Mushroom for your words. i've tried to stay busy and not think about all the stuff which is going on. organised long weekend for ourselves which was quite good )))
Good luck to everyone with your journeys and have a nice and positive week with lots of good news :)

Edited by Helen191310 - 03 August 2015 at 10:33am

So much going on in here ladies! It's pretty exciting

Mushroom wow that's alot of eggs you had there! Hows things today? Have you had your trigger or any word on whether it will be a freeze all cycle?

Nik how was your egg collection on Friday? (sorry if I've missed that post)

A.girl arrgh! How annoying you still haven't heard anything! Fingers crossed you hear soon. Wasting of money is a hard thing to get over in this baby making game!

Soda that's great you and DH have decided now is the time to get back onto your clomid. Fingers crossed it does the trick for you before he goes away!

Minik8, I stopped temping ages ago! Don't think I ever did temp on my clomid cycles - I always hated temping haha but I did always do OPK's during those cycles, and always found it to be different, by only a day or 2, to what FA said was when I would OV. I found that handy when I did my unmonitored cycles last year too.

big hi hi to everyone else

Nothing new to report from me, looking forward to my FA appointment next week. And thanks for everyones advice/words on the fertility cover. Still not sure what we will do yet, but had a convo with my mum yesterday about it, and in the end she said even if we do get our baby from the first round in the cover, we have our much wanted baby - and that's priceless. Really put my mind at ease about it I think so we'll just wait and see how the appointment next week goes.

Poppy sorry for my delayed reply, gosh what a blow. It must be incredibly stressful. Are there any other tests that the doctors are able to do or is it just wait and see? I so hope your little girl is ok xxx Please post here any time! I feel like we should all be granted smooth pregnancies after struggling to conceive, but unfortunately it doesn't work like that!

Hi everyone else. Minik8e I didn't temp but I did use OPKs for my unmonitored cycles. You should get a fair idea of how your body responds to the clomiphene from the monitored cycles anyway.

Wow, 21 eggs, that's huge! Well done! You look after yourself mushroom xxx Nothing but movies, hot water bottle and whatever yummy treats you feel like :)

Go Mushroom. Great egg retrieval! Apart from it being more painful that is! Hope you rest well.

Yay mushroom! You're a rock star! !! Hoping for good news to follow. . .

Thanks for all the kind words of support. Just got a msg from the clinic to confirm that we start injections on the 21st. Whew! So glad they didn't bump it back any further.

Quick hi from me. Mushroom you rock star alright! I hear you on that pain chick I'm sure the drugs didn't work for me either. Rest up and hope you recover well.

Thats a good haul mushroom - hopefully you can rest easy and get back to feeling normal soon. When I had 25eggs collected I felt a bit rough for about 5days after. That cycle also I found the drugs didn't work so well - and I remembered a lot of what happened, my 2nd IVF the drugs worked much better, there were only 10eggs that time so not sure if that made a difference, but also the first time round i was actually trying to pay attention to what was going on, where as the 2nd time round I just closed my eyes and let it all happen, so i wonder if that helped the drugs work better for me.



So today in the space of about 6hrs we went from starting our next round of IVF in about 4weeks time....to starting it tomorrow! Spontaneous IVF anyone! Still got to finish off the paperwork and make a very large payment, but as we're doing a longer protocol that'll be ok.