MARCH-CYCLE BUDDIES

rae76 · Post by **rae76** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 12:55 am

Kandice, that must have been a hard decision and I understand the conflicting emotions, but you did the right thing. During such a sad time you have to do whatever there is to do to make yourself feel better, physically or emotionally. I think this decision will allow you to get around to the main thing - the grief and sorrow of loss and disappointment - sooner. It is not easy but hang in there - however unlikely it may seem right now things WILL get better. We're all here for you!

You're in my thoughts and I'm sending you lots of warm hugs.

kia1973 · Post by **kia1973** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 1:05 pm

Hi ladies,

Sorry been missing for a few days been working 15hr days but that’s me now until the 12th April wooooooo hoooo.

Kandice – you’re in my thoughts honey and NO you did not have an abortion, don’t beat yourself up about it honey. Glad MIL was there for you.

Nimble – LOL at the Poo conversation,

I’m still struggling to go any more laxatives and I think I will overdose!!!

How you feeling now honey?? Hate bad dreams but just remember that’s all it was lots of PMA.

Mama- how was the ET???

Rae – fantastic news, so happy for you darling.

Sonya – can sympathise with the bloated feeling, I was hoping that I would have gone by now but no, all my clothes are so tight around my waist. Hope you enjoyed your meal last night.

Nicki – you sound like a right Pro at the stimming lark, you go girl, not long till EC.

Jill – good luck for ET thinking of you chick.

Hi to everyone else hope you all having a lovely weekend so far.

As for me had ET this morning, I’m still in quite a lot of pain and rightly so according to the Dr as my right ovary is triple its normal size with a lot of follicles still there. ET was quite painful when the Dr was pressing on my stomach, but all went well and we had 2 blasts transferred. Out of the 9 that fertilised only 4 made it to the blastocyst stage and my clinic wont freeze any less that 3 so feel quite upset for the other 2 we haven’t transferred.

Well ladies I will be looking in on everyone more often now as I’m off work for the next 13 days wooooooo, hooooooo. Going to be a sofa bum (its going to do my head right in). Bring on the dreaded 2WW.

sokru8 · Post by **sokru8** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 2:36 pm

Hey Ladies!
Great news all 6 embies are still growing and are at 6-8 cells and look perfect! As you can imagine we are very excited!

Transfer is on Monday at 1pm!

WOOOOOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOOO

xoxo
Sonya

rae76 · Post by **rae76** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 2:42 pm

Hi ladies,

thank you for your sweet words!

Sonya, that sounds just perfect! Good luck with your ET on Mon!!!

Nimble, I don't ReALLY have a preference - we would welcome either with open arms. But at the moment I'm leaning towards a girl for the sole reason that boys' names are harder for us to come up with, at least at this point we have none

This of course may change. DH says he has no preference and does not even want to know the sex before birth....

nimble · Post by **nimble** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 4:58 pm

THIS IS OUR GROUP

AMANDA: Missouri, US (age26)
ANIE: (33yrs)
ANNA: Ohio, US (age33)
BIG WHITE DOG (Janice): Virginia, US (40)
BRIDGET JONES: Surrey, UK (age45)
CARBEV aka Caroline: Singapore
CHVONNE: Essex, UK
COCO: Winter wonderland, US (age37)
COOKHOLMES: California, US (25)
HOLLY: The Netherlands. – now Miss Piggy
FIJIBABIE: South Island NZ
IDONVITO aka Lisa: New York, US
JENN: Toronto (age28)
JILL (jstandlund): Minnesota, US (29)
KANDICE: (26)
KAREN (moonk): Connecticut, US (28.)
KARIA:
KARINA: Northern Ireland
KARINA1: Aberdeen, Scotland
KARMA_K: San Francisco Bay (age35)
KAT: Tallinn,Estonia (age 30)
KIA aka SHA: Portsmouth UK (age33)
MAMACARDENS (Natalie) California (age 22)
MANDEEQ: London, UK
MARCIA: Coventry, UK (age33)
MELLY: UK (Age 33)
MRS B: Reading, UK (age25)
NELLYA:
NERMS: Middlesex, UK (age32)
NIMBLE (Jackie): Surrey, UK (age38.)
NICKI: Suffolk, UK (age31)
PEP23 (Steph): Indianapolis, US (age28.)
QUITA
RAE: Dallas, US (age30)
REACH AEJ: Charlotte, NC (Age 35)
RILES:
SHANTALA: Berkshire, UK (age21)
SHER8: Pennsylvania, US (38.)
SMATTISON: Texas
SOKRU (Sonya): N.Carolina, US (33)
VICKY: Florida, US (age29)
Yarnista: Connecticut (32)

CONGRATULATIONS!!!! BFP!!!

Chvonne

Mrs B
?dpt?dt = 168
23 Mar beta = 458
10 Apr – 1st scan

Steph
9dp3dt = 98
11dp3dt = 263
1st scan 12th

Chvonne
1st Scan 18th April

RAE Natural BFP due 8th Oct 07
12 week milestone 29Mar
Carbev Natural BFP due Nov 07

On the 2WW

Quita: 2 little ones snuggling in – 31st Mar

Karma k: 3 little ones snuggling in – testing 28 Mar

Nelly: ? little ones snuggling in – testing ? Mar

Amanda: 3 little ones snuggling in – testing April 3

Denise: 2 little ones snuggling in – testing 31 Mar & 2nd Apr

Nerms: 2 little ones snuggling in – 6th April

Miss Piggy: 2 little ones snuggling in – 12th April

Nimble : 2 little ones snuggling in – testing 11th April

Sha : 2 little ones snuggling in – testing 14th April

Mama : 2 little ones snuggling in – testing ?th April

DOWN REGGING, SCANS,INJECTIONS

Karia – waiting for AF

24 Mar – Riles – due to start stimming
30 Mar - Jackie – due to start stimming
30 Mar - Marcia—Folly Scan
1 Apr - Karia—Starts sniffing
2 Apr – BWHD – baseline scan
4 Apr – Fijibabie – b/w
4 Apr – BWHD – start Lupron
4 Apr – Nicki - Folly Scan
5 Apr – Fijibabie - Estradiol Valerate tablets
5 Apr – Vicky – scan and bw – start estrogen patches
6 Apr - Nicki – Folly scan
9 Apr – Nicki - Folly scan & trigger shot

STIMMING & FOLLICLE COUNT

Jill – grow follies grow – 11 happy eggies – 7 embies – ET 2nd April

Sonya – grow follies – 9 playful eggies - 6 Embies – ET 2nd April

Marcia – grow follies grow – 2nd scan 30th Mar

Stephanie – grow follies grow – 15 follies – EC 2nd April

Anie – started stimming – 1st scan - 16 follies

Nicky – started stimming – 1st scan 4th Apr

Melly – starts stimming 1st April

EXPECTED EGG COLLECTION

2 nd Apr– Marcia
11 april - Nicki

Embryo Transfer

3 April – Sher8 (FET)– Blast transfer
31 Mar - Sonya- Blasto transfer
5 April—Marcia
5 April - Smattison
16 April -- Nicki – Blastocyst transfer
Aprox 18th Apr – Fijibabie (donor eggies)
24Apr – Vicky (FET) (est.)

FET

13 Mar—Katrina1--FET
23 Mar —Cookholmes—FET (started PIO 18Mar)
End Mar—Karen—FET
End Mar—sher8—FET – (started estrace 18Mar)
End Apr—Vicky --FET

Expected Test Dates

Miss Piggy 12th April
Mamacardenas – 12 Apr
Sher8 – 13 April
Marcia—18 April
Nicki—27 April

We are thinking of you….
Bridget Jones we are thinking of you
Katt we are thinking of you
Shantala we are thinking of you
Anna we are thinking of you
Yarnista we are thinking of you
Kandice – your in our thoughts and prayers

IN WAITING

Mandeeq: postponed waitng for linning test results
Lucy – not starting til May/June

FUN STUFF…… NON-IVF RELATED STUFF THAT’S OCCURING!

Steph on holiday to florida
April—Karen -- 29th birthday this month
01 Aug Sonya—B’Day
02 Oct—Nicki -- B’day!!!

smattison · Post by **smattison** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 5:24 pm

Hello everyone… Hope everyone is doing great and sucking up all the follie and baby dust that is in the air!!! Good luck to everyone and I hope you are all well. I will check in later.

Well for me I just got back from the doc and everything is a go for Monday. I will trigger tonight. The doc will call me today and let me know what time to trigger once they get a time from the center my EC will be at. They say I have 15-18 follies and they are all at 16-22mm today. I will find out my estrogen level when the doc calls.

nimble · Post by **nimble** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 5:38 pm

happy saturday everyone !!

Jill - 7 embies woo hoo thats fantastic!! The waiting time between these dates is a killer - its like you get over one hurdle and then have to wait for the next - not long now though and your little ones will be home soon.

Stephanie - it can't be easy handling a rebelious teenager under the best of circumstances without the added pressure of going thru IVF. It must be hard especially as he doesn't live with you. Do you think he is peeved at something or just got into a bad crowd to make him change ? How is his face - is it healing ok ?

Nicky - LOL I know but hey you wouldn't have thanked me for dishing out that info beforehand would you!! You pro!

Sonya - my you must have been bored to go in !! I would stay off no matter how bored I get!! Work is just so, whats the right word, CRAP at the mo. I enjoy the job, but it sucks the way they are treating us right now. We are all under pressure big time but makes no excuse.

So how was dinner - was it lovely and romantic ??

There was no naughty time for me,

- it a strict no no !!

Yarnista - wow your mum hasn't called you back - thats harsh. Some clinics recommend that you wait 3 mnths between cycles others are ok for you to go straight back. You need to listen to your body and see whether you feel ok to get back on that horse and start again.

See you're another one putting me off kids

I know I'm about to sound like my mother, but blimey I would have never been allowed to speak to my teachers like that - sigh, how the world has changed and i'm sounding like an old women!!

Sha - yyyeeeeahh they are back home where they belong. Sounds like you need to be at home for a while to give those ovaries a rest!! The bloating does go down after a while, or is it I have just got used to it!!

Rae - oh so are you going to tell him if you find out the sex of the baby then?? Funny, I have more boys names than girls!! Yep, I have a list which I started years ago - sad eh

Mama - did your babies come back home ?? Hope ET went ok for you and yr resting.

Quita - have we got the official BFP signal yet?

Marcia - how are things - any news on EC yet?

Hey ladies could you check the list to see that I have dates right etc - lost the plot a bit the other day so hopefully back with it!!

Think we have lost a few too - Karma K and Nelly, if you're still around how have you got on with yr tests - praying hard that it was good news.

Denise (Cookholmes) - did you test today too - wishing you luck and hope that you got a strong BFP.

So, its only day 4, but the analysis has started - the boob touching is the most common one

thankfully don't do it in public! Getting a few aches and pains but not anything to write home about

- oh roll on day 14. The tummy rubbing is also catching and spend the evening rubbing gently, which is so comforting too.

Nims xx

kia1973 · Post by **kia1973** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 6:15 pm

nimble- sorry honey, but can you change my test date, i can't test until the 14th so a few more days of waiting for me.

toltaly understand the touching breast thing(lol) mine are so sore and heavy, i can't remember them being like this last cycle. i always have sore boobs about 2 weeks before AF so getting paranoid.

but lots of PMA and belly rubbing going on in this house

rae76 · Post by **rae76** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 7:54 pm

Way to go Stephanie!!! Congrats for triggering and good luck with your EC on Monday!

Lots of PMA and patience (yeah, I know - easier said than done...) to all the 2ww'ers and tummy-rubbers

Nims, I think DH will just have to go by my rules

I doubt it would be possible for him to not know when I know. My OB said that some couples who have different ideas about this ask the dr to write the sex on a piece of paper and take it home to discuss the matter further. Some end up never opening the note but with most the desire to know increases when the anwer is so close at hand....

Take care everyone - we're off to Vegas and Grand Canyon and will be back on Wednesday!

nicolamark · Post by **nicolamark** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 8:12 pm

Sonya!!! great o hera that your little embies are doing well..... good luck for blasto Transfer!! xxxxxx

Not much appening here this w-end what about you guys??? x x

smattison · Post by **smattison** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 8:12 pm

Nimble wrote - "Stephanie - it can't be easy handling a rebelious teenager under the best of circumstances without the added pressure of going thru IVF. It must be hard especially as he doesn't live with you. Do you think he is peeved at something or just got into a bad crowd to make him change ? How is his face - is it healing ok ? "

It is very hard. He is angry...a lot of built up anger at his dad for all the things he did to me. He only lives with him because he was in hugh school when I left and he tried to live with me and start over and he did not like it. He wanted to be with his friends he grew up with. My new hubby is a doc about an hour from where I use to live and he can not live that far from the hospital so there is no way for him to live with me and attend his old school. His face is healing but he will allways have this horrible scare on his face and he is really handsome. You can see him on my myspace page in the wedding pictures. www.myspace.com/smattison829

Thank you so much for asking about him...he is my first baby and I love him with all my heart, it hurts so bad when he hurts. He does still give good hugs and I get them as much as I can!

nicolamark · Post by **nicolamark** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 8:14 pm

Nimble how r u?? Are u having a good w-end?? Who the 2ww isnt driving you insane too much!! xxx

nicolamark · Post by **nicolamark** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 8:16 pm

Rae, have fun in Vegas!! Sounds better than me just sitting in this w-end!! xxxx

smattison · Post by **smattison** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 8:18 pm

Rae- You have a great time on your trip....I just love Vegas and wish I was there!!! Be careful you have baby on board...LOL

cookholmes · Post by **cookholmes** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 8:31 pm

OMG, we just got our results back and the first beta was BFP 198!!! I am so excited!!!

D

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