The Trials and Tribulations of Trying to Conceive when its just not happening (12m+)

bigzippy

Other than being a little paranoid and my joints wanting to pop out more than usual, everything's fine so far thanks mrshappy. Midwife agreed that I could potentially end up on bedrest further down the line (I always knew that) and that I'd probably be referred to a consultant at the booking in appointment for consultant led care because of my conditions, but it's all good Lilymay, no major pain etc so far, but the mw said 7-8 weeks is more dangerous and I'll have been scanned before then, and what to do if I do get the pain. The ladies who arranged my early scan were lovely and completely understood why I'd need one and that I'd rang at the right time and said I should see the heartbeat by then too...fingers crossed! I am relaxing Primmer, I have to, I'm too tired and achy and paranoid about my joints not to. Dh is keeping a good eye on me too

Part_Mouse

Good to hear from you BZ. Xx

lucyloo77

Morning everyone, really hope everyone's doing ok today.

ETO - aww that such lovely news, and does indeed give me hope. Congratulations!!!!!

MrsH - really hope you get good donor news soon.

BZ - lovely to hear how you're doing

AFM: well I had another scan yesterday morning. My follies hadn't grown much - the biggest two were 14 and 13. That was day 7 of stimming yesterday. So they've put my Gonal f up to 225 now. I'm also doing hot water bottles/lots of protein/full-fat milk etc. Pleeeeeaaaase grow follicles. Really worried they'll stop growing and the treatment will be abandoned. So that is my current worry/paranoia of the day.

good_vibes

Hi all,
been really busy with work and nursing OH to catch up. Will read up later.
OH had his urology appt. One testie very small. Again the talk of "looking at assisted help" came up *sigh*. Why can't they give men a magic pill to help.
Continues on his supplements and still living in hope in the mean time.
Have a good day all

Part_Mouse

Lucy got everything crossed the follies continue to grow.

Good vibes I hope you get some news soon about what your next steps will be.

xx

lucyloo77

Been back the hospital again this morning. The follies have grown some more, and the biggest one is now 18. So it's looking like EC on Monday morning (although the clinic are to phone me this pm to confirm for definite, once they've had their consultant meeting).

The only thing is that there's not many really big follies, as a lot of the others simply didn't catch up in time. So unless there's a big last minute burst of growth, they're looking at about 3-4 eggs (hopefully). Which is obviously not amazing. So I have to put serious hope in quality over quantity.

TeamLowe

Afternoon Ladies,
they was discussing this article on the Today programme so i thought i'd share (although as always, don't read the comments. even though it's private research there's foaming at the mouth about ivf on the nhs)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-22559247

hopefully the clinical trials will show it to be as effective as the initial findings do, they've said it's tripling their success rates :j

on a selfish note, i'm pleased its Care Manchester as it's on my list of clinics to consider should we get that far

ooh forgot to say - something weird happened the other day - watching friends with my parents and it was the episode where monica and chandler are finding out they're infertile and interviewing that guy over dinner to be a sperm donor.
mum turned to me and said 'are you sure you're ok watching this'
i think she's finally realise that i'm not just being impatient and irrational, that we do actually have a problem. which made me cry lol

good luck on monday lucy! i'm sure you'll be worrying about quadruplets soon enough x

becca0417

Awww tl xx

DH and I had a massive row about adoption last night. I mentioned it in passing and he hit the roof! He said talking about that is like giving up. Men ay?!

TeamLowe

oh dear becca, not so good with the complex emotions, are they?
i wish i could get flashcards for DH so instead of having arguments he can hold up the variety that he's feeling...sometimes the easiest way to resolve things is for me to do the whole 'are you feeling angry because y and hurt because x and worried about me?' like you would with a small child who's thrown a toy lol

becca0417

Not at all! It's not like I even said oh I think we should adopt!! All I said was wow how lovely that they've done that (on tv prog) I'd love to do that one day.

Flash cards sound like the way forward!