wow ladies - so different, yet so similar we all are! Thanks for sharing your stories.
Kat - your lines are beautiful! Please CHILL out...my doc has told me to do just that...as I am like you obsessing over lines on HPT's and terrified they will start fading...and scared due to lack of preg symptoms...but...
He took my blood for 1st beta HCG today and will repeat them on Friday he said..he is referring me to early preg unit again for scan probably around 7 weeks again (if I make it that far!)...and he did a GP urine test (less sensitive than our cheapie and HPT's he said) and it came up with a lovely dark strong line...so I am not going to obsess so much about lines from now on...we are in natures (or God's) hands in lots of respects now, although we can do much to research and check out things for ourselves I truly believe!
I turned 41 in July, had my daughter when I was 29 after private clinic donor insemination. I raised her as a single mom and here in the UK back then it raised a few eyebrows choosing to be a single mom and using clinic donor option.
I have since tried for sibling at various clinics here and abroad, going to Denmark, Prague and three different UK clinics - but no BFP in sight. I couldnt understand why? As it worked first try with my daughter.
The law re: donor anonymity changed after my daughter was born so she can't find her father- we know she has 15 genetic half brothers and when she is 18 there may be an option for to trace him if he chooses.
Fertility treatment (of any kind) here in the UK is so expensive and I ran out of money as I retrained from social work into teaching. I opted to go abroad where costs and donors were so different! But i researched immunes and progesterone this time around - after so many treatment protocols here couldnt give me an answer as to why I couldnt conceive again!
I have taken fish oils for the past two years and co-enzyme Q10 subsequently and have since had a few chem pregs, a loss at just over 4 weeks and lost a pregnancy at nearly 10 weeks in January last year after IVF treatment abroad and transfer of two hatching blast embryo's.
Here I am...trying to conceive naturally since with a friend / known donor...and it has worked. His involvement with said / any future babe is undetermined..he has a son of his own and is not seeking involvement. And there are so many issues with my daughter not knowing her donor father / potential sibling issues etc. But I have had to go through massive counselling processes re; these issues as part of UK protocols.
My daughter is my greatest love and accomplishment, she is starting secondary school in sept and is a bright, happy well adjusted young lady. I am so proud of her. My family are so supportive and I count myself lucky if this is how life is to be....but I could not give up on my dream of having another child...so this little bean was to have been my last attempt...I have had zero symptoms and was starting to train for a half-marathon when I actually tested only coz my period was a few days late and I knew my date of ovulation / BM'd! lol...so there you go ladies my long story (sorry about the length of this post!).
so cute!
test results wont be that high as where taken friday and it was sat that i got my digi!! 
