December-January Cycle Buddy's Our New beginnings

[lara312]

Meg wtg i bet your so in shock i'm so very pleased for you i'm so excited for you like aunty said perhaps your body just needed a nudge .

Sophie we have only told my parents and 2 friends and my boss (has all the time i will lose) has last time i was always being asked whats happening when this when that it was good to have their support but they never asked me how i was feeling i mean after the last cycle and i m/c they expectet me to be my normal self that cant happen none of them have been there so they dont know what its like i really have to say i found all the support i need here with you lovley ladies i have more friends here that i've never met (i wish we could all meet and do something together) i think all of you has my extended family .

Haylie yeah we will have to arrange something and meet and have a good old chin wag

Shantala i am keeping everything crossed for you to start in feb has you have been so patient waiting and deserve it sweetie you have watched while we all started now its your turn.

Driuet welcome to the family has you can see all very supportive here .

Becky i cant believe 18 days its coming so quick .

Bec hows you and babe hope your getting loads of rest and letting everyone else take care of you .

Ss thanks for asking about me apart from the headaches and flushes i'm fine how are you doing hope dh's syptoms are soon under control.

Sassy not long now till your babies are home i really hope that they all deforst for you i have a couple of weeks to go fore we deforst i'm already thinking what if they dont i really like your attitude though about expecting the worst .

Aunty hows the side effects the list is looking good .

Densie 24 follies thats great hope your not in to much pain .

To everyone i've missed good luck to those on the 2ww bring on those BFP's to those stimming grow eggies ant to all those down regging hope your not having to many side effects .

Well must dash has going to the airport to take the outlaws make sure they get on that bloody plane hugs to everyone
love Rachel x x

[Vickie]

Just a quick 1..

Becky i'm so pleased to see that u have an appt at a new clinic in less than 3 weeks - OMG...that is brill news!!! Fingers x'd

Ems- good luck for EC - it will b fine...when have u got ur trigger shot??

Jodic - how r u doing...r u feeling any twinges? I am, probably still over-excited ovaries!!

I'll pop back l8r, the phone is ringing!!

LOL Vickie x x x

[becleo]

OK I am going to try and attempt to catch up..YEAH RIGHT!

Meg- OMG that is so fabulous CONGRATULATIONS I think you are knocked up honey!!!!!!

Sophie- hey girlie- I hear you on different people and their reactions and even when they think they are being supportive they really suck! We told lots of people the first try, I was so excited to finally be trying that everyone knew, the day I had the transfer happened to be my triplet nieces 1st birthday and when we got to the party everyone knew we had transferred that day and were congratulating us and huggng us and all and we ended up with the BFN anyways, next round We were a litlle more quiet, but I still needed to tell my close friends and families, still BFN, then I had my postponed cycle so that was hard BUT i had my friends and family who knew there to pick me up on the sad days... next IVF.. again a big fat NEGATIVE.
this last time we tried to be more quiet, because it was so hard to go back to mour friends and families to say it didn't work. except my MIL kinda forgets and blabs anyways! BUT I had a point to all of this.. hehehe
for me I needed to have my close friends and family with me thru this, it was a LONG year, and my DH isn't a great cheerleader so I needed people I could turn to and get my "good jobs" "everything will be ok" and "you are strong". and sometimes I was faced with some crappy support, but I think because we HAD to go thru this because of my husbands Cancer most people were more happy for us than anything...
I don't know if this helps at all. but I knew it wasn't all about me and that MANY women go thru this and they end up with BFP, so I knew it was a matter of time!!! SO SORRY for rambling.... but thats my 2 cents

Cook- hey there! I think the site is just babycenter.com
not 100% sure but I will check for you! yeah it is neat to see what stage my little peanut is at!!!!

Sassy so close!!!!! yippee!

Erin GROW EGGIES GROW!!!!

Rachel- hey hon. yup all is good for me i think I am too independant to let people take "care" of me too much. it is cute though my boss calls me Momma Be every morning, and has been making me lunch to make sure I am eating hehehehe, kinda cute! DH well I find I can't stand him most days! very strange... I don't know why, it must be the hormones, but he pisses me off all the time, of course I don't tell him because I know it is just me, but man o man ! apparently i have yelled at him in my sleep a few time hehehe, keep waiting for the horniness to kick in but not as of yet hehehehe. ok maybe TMI!!!!

everyone 2ww- how are you girls hanging in there!!!! hope it is going smootly for you!!!!!

stimming ladies- GROW EGGIES GROW!!!!!!!!!!

FET to be- hope those linings are getting nice and thick!!!

Aunty0 holy cow you are so close to eggie food time! SWEET!!!!!
so happy for you!!!!!

Becky- that is awesome that you will be jumping on the horse so soon. 3 weeks!!!! Rock on!!!!!!

Shantala- where are you??? we usually post at the same time! hope all is going good for you sweetie

ok gotta go for now
Babysitting my niece this am and then dinner at my best friends new home!!!!!!
everyone have a great weekend!
love bec

[shantala]

morning ladies

just a quick one to say thank you for all your fingers and toes being crossed and thanks Aunty for putting me back on the list!! woohoo!! blimey, only 3 days till my baseline scan and trial transfer and only 10 days till i find out whether it's going to be feb or march!! woohoo!!

meg - OMG!!!!!!!!!! CONGRATULATIONS!!!!! thats soooooooooooooooooo FABULOUS!!!! enjoy the next 9 months!!!

bec - i'm here hunny!! lol. how you doing?? i'm fine thanks, just trying to keep up with everyone!!

will do more personals soon!! but thinking of all of you!!
xxx

PS and a great big welcome to druiett!!!! wishing you a very smooth 2ww!!!! xxx

[shantala]

bec - what you doing up at this time in the morning??

xx

[beachbaby]

Hi all,

Meg wow thats fantastic news, i smiled when i read that. all the bestover the next 9 months.

shantala, fingers crossed you can go this month, 3 days till you find out.

PMA, I eventually told my mum who told my sister, DH furious about that as they don't get on!, anyway she never mentions it unless i tell her something. Although the drugs must be affecting me this time big style as she asked me to get her 4 pints of milk on my way home the other day and drop it off, to go by her house takes no longer than my usual route home and the shop is 1 minute walk from my work, and i totally lost it, she is off sick with a bad back can't carry anything, her car was in the garage and my neice was sick. i have now apologised profusely and feel so guilty.DH says i'm a little tense and narky, he just bought me an orchid to cheer me up. i am usually fine but feel down at the moment, maybe as i'm dieting as well? anyway enough rambling.

Druit welcome and enjoy your 2ww, hope those embies are snuggling in.

Jodic, hope you are feeling better.

Aunty not long now to egg food, you have been so patient.

To all on the 2ww relax and take care of yourselves.

To everyone else good luck and lots of sticky baby dust to you all.
J

[AuntyPebbles]

Good Morning Lady's
well lots of lady's i and some of the others have cycled with before are starting to have the baby's so i went for a nose around photo bucket
it just occured to me maybe some of the new Lady's and Gent's dont know about photo bucket?

well there is a place we all go and post pics mostly of baby's some of couples whatever really its a place for us to go and it's great to go see the results of all this...

the address is www.photobucket.com
username is : ivfgroup
password is : ivfgroup

[druiett]

Sophie...i'm so sorry to hear about the lack of support...i think we all understand this one...my husband and family are truly great but it's just not what i'm looking for...i like to have what i call "ANNS PITY PARTY" where it is all about me and my problems...its selfish but sure makes me feel better after having a crappy day...my husband tells me with regards to my friends that everything goes full circle and that we are all at different parts of our life but at some point meet up again FULL CIRCLE...hey it sounded alot better when he said it but anyway it helps to think that sometimes...

Aunty Pebbles... How do you remember everyones info...I test in 9 days...Jan 29...hopefully everything will be good, i've just been crampy the last 2 days but i guess thats normal...

CookHolmes...Good luck with ER monday

phxivf...Good luck with ER tomorrow

Sassynlv...do you know what day you are doing your FET next week?

Well like i said i'm still new at this and trying to figure out whose who...

GOOD LUCK TO EVERYONE!!!

[mom20]

wooo way to go meg looks like your defo up the duff got bun in the oven lol WELL DONE
mom20

[tcbalgord]

WOWWIE!!!!!! There's no way to catch up so forgive me if I'm very general today!

Meg! OMG sweetie I'm jumping for joy for you!

Aunty, thanks for the photobucket info, I'm a sucker for baby pics!
How's your Oscar doing?

To all of you BFP's I hope that you are enjoying the next 9 months!

Newbies, WELCOME!!!!!!! You love this place as much as I do, and find all the comfort and support you need with this special group!

To all of you 2WWer's hang in there, and I'm praying for all of your BFP's!

Those of being pin cushions, my tummy aches for you. SERIOUSLY, I think I'm having sympathy pains.

Everyone else, you are all in my thoughts and prayers!

Last night I had date night with my daughter, Abby. We went to dinner and then to see the new movie; "Night at the Museum." Great Movie BTW!

Tomorrow we are taking the kids to this pet store that has alligators! It's so cool, DH and I spent 3 hours there yesterday! Also for a limited time they have 3 baby tigers and you can have your pic taken with them! I am so excited to have the kis to this!

Have a great weekend ladies!

[Fed7281]

Firstly CONGRATS MEG!!!!!!!!!! I could not believe what I was reading. I am so pleased for you. I think you are definatley pregnant girl!!! Enjoy!

This is going to be a quick post from me. I am supposed to be watching Madagascar with my son and I snuck out just to post!

So I went for my US today and I had 14 follies on my right side. Only 4 measured over 10mm and I had 5 on the other and only 2 measured over 10mm. I am not really sure what that means or how big they should be so this was all a foreign language to me, but I figured one of you lovely ladies would explain to me what is going on. SO I am continuing my meds at the same dose for 2 more days and I go back for bloods and US on Monday.

Well, hope you are all doing well and I will write more when I get a minute to myself!!

BABY DUST TO ALL!!

Erin

[meg12]

Thanks so much everyone. I know it's bitter sweet to see other people get pregnant--it's so human to want to be happy for them but at the same time, you can't help that sick little green monster of jealousy from popping up and screaming ugly things in your head. (OR is that just me? )

I did go into my RE this morning and it's official. I'm "up the duff" as mom20 said--I liked that one! We can't tell if I'm 4 weeks or 5 weeks, but I suppose that's not a huge deal. I even got to do an ultra sound and had a look at my little h.b. (that's what I'm calling him/her so I don't just say it--h.b. standing for human being ) Just a little dark blob in the uterus for now--hoping I'll be able to see more on Friday when I go in for another check.

Anyway, just wanted to thank you all again for the support you've all given me the last few months. This board has become my second family and I will still be lurking around watching all of you go through with this crazy, wonderful, terrifying process that is in vitro! I wish you all the best luck and remember---anything can happen!!!!!!!!!

[charlie78]

Meg - that is wonderful news - I have happy tears for you! Enjoy the next 9 months! Can't wait to hear about your next US!! LOL x

Sophie - don't get me started on unsupportive friends and family it would really take over the whole page. My MIL will ask me how things are going and within seconds she will be talking about her life! Don't know why she bothers to ask if she doesn't really want to know! My MIL recently split from her husband (not DH's father) and since September we have had my DH's younger twin sisters living with us (they are 17). Anyway, it has been fairly stressful, feeding them getting them to college etc, and I have been so moody with all the hormones! I just think she is completely insensitive to what we are going through -DH has had to tell her that the girls can't stay here this month - and I think she thinks we are being unreasonable! Anyway I won't write anymore I'm supposed to be de-stressing!
Maybe Aunty is right and they are not sure what to say? You could bring it up and maybe that will open the lines of communication. I do think you find out who your real friends are through this process!

Aunty - you do such a fantastic job on the list! Not long for you now!

I have a question? I have been stimming now for 4 days and still AF has not completely gone away - is this normal?

Only just got in from a netball tournament - and it has been bloomin freezing - so I'm going for a warm in front of the fire!

LOL

Charlie x

[AuntyPebbles]

Afternoon Lady's and Gent's
Charlie good to see you, when do you go for your first follie count?...as for still having AF welll on your first follie count bring it up ask them to measure your lining if its looking on the low side ask about having E2 patches or pills..this can help thicken your lining up anything over 9 is a good measurement..EC is usually about day 10 of stimms thats just an average so you still have at least 6 days to build up a good lining let me know what they say to you....im sure its all going to be great...hugs

Meg im thrilled for you 100% love it when one of us gets to cut out the middle man so to speak big hugs send some kisses form all of us...

Fed hey there well i know some clinics can be different ...my clinic like my follies to be the smallest 17mm the largest no bigger than 21mm when you go back in two days they should be looking somewhere around 14mm so i would say you have about another 4 days of stimming ish maybe 5....it sounds perfect you dont want them to mature to fast nice and steady makes for healthy embies

loads of love happy thoughts and big baby belly to all Aunty

[PMApsy]

Hello ladies!

How are you guys doing? Awww, this is one of the best moments of the week... just finished printing my last report... saw 4 clients today... and I'm now officially free till Monday afternoon! yippee! Can't wait to crash in front of that TV with some knitting! There's an angel's food cake in the oven and it smells heavenly (tee hee hee) in the house! (Aunty, Shantala, Becleo, that cake is actually in the "what you can eat when you can't eat anything" section of my new IBS diet...!). I'm alone in the house right now with the wee furry ones; DH went to the vet for antibiotics for our dog; nothing serious, but she still has some bacteria in her urine after her urinary infection. She doesn't seem to suffer at all, though! I had a great time with my beautician (she's SO sweet! and we get along so well!) and I made an appointment with her to have a facial just before my blood test so she can help me relax (her products are safe for pregnant women). She's very supportive!

I started the egg food yesterday evening as planned. I started some fertility meditation, too, just before I gave myself the shot. That meditation will go on till the blood test. I had trouble concentrating, though... And this morning, ouch! Got up with a slight headache that just got worse as the hours went by. I'm taking Advil right now, but I'll check the data on it to see if it's safe during pregnancy. If not, I'll switch to good old Tylenol.

And about my friend, well... thanks so much to Aunty, phxivf, cookholmes, lara, becleo, beachbaby, druiett and charlie for replying to my comment and writing so much about your own experiences. I don't think at all that the problem is my best friend being uneasy; she sat with the IVF book the clinic gave me when I got it and she asked all the questions she wanted about the process and everything. But she was on holiday then (just before her residency started). As my DH put it, she's not doing it on purpose at all; she's just caught up in her own world and she doesn't realize that she should be there for me, even if only for a mini email once in a while.

Your comments about finding out who your real friends are freaked me out. My best friend and that other friend in NYC... they are the only close friends I have. If I can't count on them... then...

You see, I've moved a lot during my graduate studies, and I've made many friends, close at the time, but not now given the distance (it's always that way once you stop seeing people every day/week when you change jobs or practicuums and so on). I don't doubt the love and caring of all these people; the maître d' at our wedding told us she had never seen guests take so many pics of the bride and groom in all her career and how it showed how much people cared about us. But all these friends/acquaintances don't know about us making our first attempt now. I told these two close friends because I thought they could be there for me.

Nevertheless, I'll give them another chance. When I gave them the appointment dates, I thought it was self-explanatory that I wanted support through all this; I had told them specifically that they would be the only ones to know. I'll make my expectations and needs much clearer this time, while still not having a criticizing tone. I've given my client this advice enough, I can apply it to my own life. We'll see the result... I can't just say nothing about it; I'll just be sad on my own and maybe ruminate and next time I see my best friend or write to my other friend, I might be bitter and I don't want that.

Welshgirl: awwww I traumatized you, didn't I? Whoopsie! No more rants about nakedness in my house!

meg... meg! MEG! BUT THAT'S AMAZING! Ooooooh no wonder you were shaking sweetheart! I would have had a hard time typing, even! What an extraordinary gift you just received! And surprise gifts are always the best ones, aren't they? Oh, it's SO amazing that you had an appointment so soon after you tested; that way you had the confirmation right away! I'm SO HAPPY for you sweetie! Enjoy the next 9 months and I'm wishing you tons of luck and a smooth and uneventful pregnancy my dear! *hugs*

To all my fellow stimmers - grow eggies, grow! Let's all join the follidance! And to all the others, down regging, waiting, a lovely weekend and a big hug!

Sophie