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

Floaty

Oh my goodness Pink that's excellent advice. None of the women at our clinic had figured that one out. In the waiting room we were all sat with our OHs telling us to drink more, them there was a gaggle of us sneaking into the loo to do tiny wees to relieve the pain!

I might pass it on to our clinic

AFM, just got a call to say our third embie caught up so they froze two blastos yesterday. On with the wait!!

PS I have been doing the IVF relaxation cd and it's great. It sent OH fast asleep yesterday but I love it

skaps

What fab news Floaty

Floaty

Thanks:)

I tried to eat high protein in the run up to EC. An example day would be:

One egg scrambled with spinach, 2 oatcakes, 1/2 an avocado mashed with mixed seeds, 3 mint tea.

Mixed nuts and dried fruit for snacks (turns out I really.like there! )

Mixed salads (supermarket ones), usually with beans, couscous, lentils etc as well as spinach and salad veggies. Fruit.

Meat or fish grilled or baked or casseroled, often with lentils, sweet potato mash and veggies. Fruit or yoghurt.

Chocolate. I can't go without chocolate.

After EC/ET our clinic simply advises a healthy balanced diet with plenty of protein and fibre. I'm still allowing myself the chocolate

frozenpenguin

IVF/ICSI/IUI/FET cycles currently ongoing

• Wonder_Woman: IVF round #3 with immune meds.
• Floaty: IVF SP. Stims (Gonal-F 225iu) 18/1. EC 26/1, 3 eggs collected, all 3 fertilised. 1 x 5d ET 31/1
• emmaj30: IVF. Stims 18/1. EC 29/1. ET 3/2
• Skaps: IVF. Stims 21/1, Cetrotride. EC 30/1, 12 eggs collected, 9 fertilised. ET 2/2 or 4/2 (tbc)

Ovulation induction
cwtw: Three rounds of ovulation induction by injections
lauraw82: Appointment 12/11, Clomid for 4 cycles
Slinky_selina: Clomid, HSG 5/1, appointment and scans booked


Awaiting FS/other appointment or making alternative plans
bigmomma051204: Appointment in November
choc-addict: Appointment early Nov, IVF Feb/Mar 2015
chocoholic_chick: Appointment 1/3
claretsgirl: Trying naturally
Fairy dust: IVF round 4, April 2015
frozenpenguin: Restarting a medicated FET March 2015
Gelly123: Appointment at the recurrent miscarriage clinic 17/2
Goodvibes: ICSI 2=chemical. ICSI 3= 2015, follow up appointment Jan 2015
Harleyquinn2016: Trying naturally
Isla_red: Further treatment Jan 2015
lisawood78: Filling in forms for embryo adoption in Spain
lucyloves: IUI
pinkteapot: Trying naturally and IVF follow up appointment end Jan 2015
Primmer: Adoption panel 19/11 - they said yes!
shrimpy_80: Referral in April, dye x-ray thing and ultrasound in the meantime
TamVilla80: Appointment 26/2
Think Pink: Trying the NTNP approach for 6 months
vesper: Referred for IVF


Team wonderbra (lovely and supportive aunties)
codemonkey
tea lover


Recent graduates

• Clevernamehere: Natural 28/10/14
• jazz25: Clomid. 16/10/14
• Gettingthereslowly: Medicated FET. Oestrogen (Progynova). Scan 12/9. 2 x ET 17/9. 1/10/14
• Danielley: LP. DR (Buserelin injections) 4/6. Stims (Merionel) 29/6. EC 9/7, 16 eggs collected, 11 fertilised. 1x5d ET 14/7. 21/07/14
• Carrot34: Natural 19/07/14
• Jammy26: Started Clomid (50mg) Jan 14. Diagnosed Fibroids. 19/06/14
• loveactually: LP. DR (Buserelin) 14/2. Stims 10/03. EC 26/3, 8 eggs collected, 2 fertilised. 1x5d ET 31/3. 11/04/14

frozenpenguin

skaps - glad EC went well and that's a pretty good fertilisation rate, good luck for your ET xx

floaty - that's excellent news about the frosties! (although you won't need them for a year or two )
re: the full bladder thing, my clinic must be an odd one as they ask you not to drink anything beforehand! They don't do it by ultrasound though, instead they scan you during EC and then the ET is all done by measurements. xx

emmaj30 - good luck for your ET xx

vesper - huge hugs, it must be incredibly frustrating having the OH away xx

pinkteapot

The bit about it taking 30-45 mins for water to reach your bladder has been told to me by a nurse as well (so not just randoms on the interwebs). Before we had IVF I had to have another bladder-full scan. Absent mindedly peed 15 mins beforehand!!! Frantically drank and when I got in the nurse said I needn't have bothered as it was too late by that point, d'oh.

Stopping drinking once you've drunk what you need to helps psychologically with not thinking about peeing, I found.

lisawood78

Can I please be updated to 'Filling in forms for Embryo Adoption In Spain'
Thank you

Good to luck to all you IVFers this month! fingers tightly crossed

emmaj30

Thanks Frozen penguin… Can you update to ET 03/02.. Didn't get the three day phone call so hopefully that means that the little ones are doing nicely xx good luck to everyone.. Whens your big day snaps?

skaps

Tomorrow if they call or Wednesday

nightsky224

Hi everyone, wonderd if anyone could help with progesterone tests.
We have been ttc for about 16 months now and have gone to the doctor to start the ball rolling. have done the 3 day and 21 day bloods. The 21 progesterone comeback negative as I had a long cycle that month and so had my period about 13 days after the test rather than 7. So 2 cycles later am doing it again. Decided to get the ovulation tests so I could make sure I do the bloods at the right time. I tested positive on my 17th day (27th jan) should I do the test on Tuesday, 7days after, it would be easier for me to do it on wed but would that be too late.