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chriss wrote:It's very complicated Steph. We are doing some major science projects here.
Are you talkin bout my resume or hatching...I guess when you got teased as a kid about being hatched it is TRUE!

I like science...and I like pokin holes in things, too!
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Women can be very critical. Make sure your nails are clean and don't be late!!!! I don't wear make up either except... sometimes I throw on a little bronzer... adds color to the face.
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hey does every resume need a list of references too??
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I don't think you need more than one list of references. Just be sure to give it to the head honcho.
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chriss wrote:Women can be very critical. Make sure your nails are clean and don't be late!!!! I don't wear make up either except... sometimes I throw on a little bronzer... adds color to the face.
I have long purty natural nails too

I don't own any makeup....unless you count chapstick

what is making me wicked nervous is having LUNCH with them too!! I feel like a 1st date hahah

I need some ice cream...and hot cocoa
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That's a long interview. Just be yourself steph and they will love you like we do.
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Steph, I gots to go. Enjoy the cocoa & screams. Best of luck for interview. Talk to ya tomorrow.
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thanks Chriss I think mia left to buy a hpt!

I decided on just cocoa...it is too cold fer ice cream
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Yeah I had to leave cuz I got a call from my nephew's daycare - my sis and her husband forgot to pick him up!!! So I had to go and then brought him home fed him, helped him with his vday cards... My sis felt so bad.

Steph: I don't wear make-up either. I tried to once and dh flipped he was like I think you are beautiful naturally ( :) he's a keeper). I teach this interviewing stuff and resume stuff at a university here... If your references are impressive keep them on the resume, if not you can not list them. Order something easy to eat that you don't have to chew long. cobb salads are good, no sandwiches (messy). Pick something healthy. DOn;t talk with your mouth full. It is like a first date :) I am sure you will do great. Just be real and they will love you!!!

I had AF cramps on my way to pick up nephew... Hope it was just nerves or something.

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Hello whoever is left on here tonight. Sorry been gone so long. Watched the new National Treasure move with DH and ate dinner. I see you guys have been having giggles as usual. I am not sure about doing assisted hatching yet. I have read good and bad things about it. Anyone on here done it and it worked?

Steph, you were asking about that, here is the description on our website herejavascript:emoticon

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The assisted hatching procedure involves thinning or making a small hole in the zona pellucida that surrounds the embryo (a protective layer). There some evidence that assisted hatching may improve implantation rate. Before an embryo implant into the uterus it must hatch from the zona pellucida. There is some evidence that in some women the zona becomes toughened, restricting the embryo to hatch. Making a small hole in the zona using a micromanipulation, this may make it easier for hatching to occur.

A hatched blastocyst seen through a microscope.
How is assisted hatching is performed?

Just before the embryos are replaced, whether they are fresh or frozen/thawed, a small hole is made in the zona, or by thinning it using a micromanipulation technique. The process is repeated for each embryo. The main methods currently in use for assisted hatching are: chemical, mechanical and laser. The process will damage about 1% of embryos.

Most IVF clinics will not perform assisted hatching if there is one embryo available because of possible damage to this embryo would result in no embryo transfer. The assisted hatched embryos are then transferred into the uterine cavity as usual. Some clinics will give the woman a course of antibiotics to prevent infection. (Assisted hatching deprives the embryo of its intact protective coat, which shields it from exposure to any harmful factors in the uterus). Assisted hatching has been implicated in an increased rate of monozygotic twins. :shock:

Mia have you been staying away from those sticks?

Hello everyone else out there.

Steph, I am not longer cramping. It actually quit like an hour later.
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:cry: Hi girls

Told work last night that i was staying off and still in my dressing gown. Just dont have the energy to do anything and just lay on the bed and had a good cry. Dh is fantastic, i keep asking if he is ok but he just keeps saying he only wants me and if we have a baby---whatever way---then its a bonus. After the first 2 cycles he never got his hopes up and we just plodded along throught the last 2 2ww's expecting the same neg result. My mum just tx and asked if i was feeling better today and if i was in work---poor thing she just got told that its going to take more than 2 days to get over the news of never being able to have children----not her fault eh.

I feel angry now to,
angry with IM,
angry for dh
angry with other pregnant people,
angry i will have to go through life always trying to live with this pain,
angry at anyone who tells me they are pregnant,
angry with anyone who moans at their kids,
angry with the crap 14yr olds who get pregnant,
angry with the druggies/alcoholics who get pregnant,
the list goes on and on----------but mainly angry with my body, which has let me down for years.

How do i move on and learn to accept it. There will be pregnant people around until the day i die, do i have to feel sad and have others pity me when they break their news to me. I keep thinking that i wont see our child, what would it look like, would it like the same things as us. Then i think about an adoped child and know we can bond and give the same love but worry it will go and look for its parents and not stay with us or that people treat us 'not as proper parents' as i havent given birth and its not our biological child. God my head is all over the place.

Sorry girls, know you are all having probs of your own but i just cant get a grip. Its strange as i thought i was so calm in the 2ww and that i was prepared but i think its because we are at the end of the road. I always knew we would be one of the couples who had a list at the end of their name and were in the % of it never working----i said that to dh from the start.

So after my selfish rant---i hope you are all feeling better than me and thank you for being there to support me not just on this cycle but through them all. You are the only people who truly know how me and dh are feeling. Others just take pregnancy for granted and they dont know how lucky they are.

Have to go and get dressed and put on a face as the social worker is coming over at 4pm.

Speak soon

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Steph good luck for your interview today and be yourslef they wil love you like we all do hope that them 5 hrs go by qickley for you

Jen sending hugs has i know that nothing anyone says can help right now but we are all here for you good for you not going into work today you need some time for you i wish i could take away your pain right now and make things better for you and you will make a fantastic mum when you adopt {{hugs}}

Shantala i'm fine well wil be after hospital appt today put my mind at rest has my iron levels are very low hows you doing not long til you finish work now

Becky hows you doing have you made a decsion on the job front yet

Mia keep away from the pee sticks their evil

Chris hows things going for you

Angie its good to see you on here again but understand you stil needing some time out

Hi to everyone i missed

Well not much here just watching the clock waiting to go to the hospital have not slept much the last couple of nights has been worrying about today and plus have terrible toothache and the last time went to dentist he said he could do no more till after shes born
must go now will post later after the hospital
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Hi ladies...

Jen- I wish there was something I could do or say to help you. Have you thought about going to a counsler? I have thought about it. Hoping maybe it would help me deal better. I totally feel for you. It was so very hard for DH and I to deal with knowing we would never have a bio child. It still hurst very much. It sucks. I think I will always have that pain with me. I dont think it will ever go away. I understand about being angry. That is one of the cycles of grieving. Please do not blame yourself. That will only bring you down more. NONE of this is anyones fault. Your DH sounds like a sweetie. Cling to him, he will be your strength right now. I will be praying for you. Take it easy.

Lara- so sorry about your tooth. That stinks. Good luck at your appointment today. I am sure everything will be great! :)

Pequele- Good Luck with your interview today.

Hello to eveyone. Hope you all are taking it easy... :)
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Hi

Yep have had counselling and find it helpful but when they get to the bit about guilt and dh, i just lose it----but i suppose thats whats helping me.

I called yesterday to try and get another appointment but there is none until 12th March which is no use to us as we need to chat now :roll:

Thanks for thinking about me

Jen x
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hi all

just wanted to pop in to see how jen was doing. jen - please come on here and rant and rave and say what you feel. thats what we're all here for. take as much time as you need from work. maybe even get signed off for a couple/few months just to get your head sorted. you are a very strong woman (the number of IVfs you have gone through proves that) and you and dh will get through this. as for your adopted child going to look for its biological parents....who's to say that a natural child wouldnt go off because it cant stand its parents?? its very rare an adoptive child would go and leave you to look for its biological parents....if anything it would stay with you and look for them. but bottom line is, you're the ones bringing it up, looking after it, being therefore it 24/7 and thats something he/she will be eternally grateful for. anyway enough said, just wanted to say i'm thinking of you!!

lara - good luck with your app today. i was told if my iron levels ever get low they will just put me on medication. you on medication already??? let us know how you get on.

pequele - good luck with your interview with the clean resumes!

hi to everyone else!!

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