hi everyone!
NY: Ive been to NYC quite a few times and done more or less everything I wanted to. Ive been with hubby once and took my mum and sister once. My BIL and 2 neices have never been. I think it will work as its a short flight and doesnt take away too much time from their canada vacation if we go for 3 nights. I will decide nearer the time, my mum is arriving here 2 weeks before they come so I will ask her what she thinks. I hope the flights will still be the same price even if we leave it to last minute to book, we would drive 2 hours down to buffalo and flight buffalo -ny.
NDH: LOVE the card idea!! I also want to be on team yellow and hubby definitely wants to, but I know it will also drive me crazy not to know. Like mummy says both ways its special so dont get to upset if the urge comes over you and you have to know!!
babyhopes: when they take the 'individual sperm and egg and left them to fuse' like you describe thats called IVF. Thats a big procedure with lots of drugs and theyd have to extract eggs from me in a surgery. IUI is just where they wash the sperm and put it inside the uterus with a thin catheter, so much simpler and much cheaper!!! only $500 or so compared to $10,000. then theres ICSI like NDH mentioned where they actually inject the egg with the sperm....I assume they do that if the sperm and egg dont meet up in the dish when trying IVF.
I dont mind if I have to do IVF as then Id hope to have some spare embryos left to freeze and use when Im 41 or 42, but it would be my 38/39 year old egg! I know they allow up to 4 embryos to be inserted into you, but I think I would only do 2 at a time. I supposed when you are paying $10,000 a time people want the best chance possible, but I think I would decide on how many tries we are doing ahead of time and only do 2 at a time. Its crazy that even IVF fails a lot of the time....the embryo was already growing and just has to implant but it still fails. that would be so hard, especially if paying $10,000 of your own money.
the shopping spree sounds great!!! I love shopping
and good idea whoever said to get gender neutrel clothes so you can use for a 2nd baby.
flying: you look lovely, thats a gorgeous bump!!! are you going to do something creative with your bump photos in a frame or something? that would be cute for bubs to see one day.
dew: oooh your temps look good, Im liking its gone up today! Im wishing with everything I have that you get your bfp this month, I dont want you to be sad the coming months. as for the softcups Im really icky about things 'up there', but I suppose my hubby could do it for me. Im sure we would BD at night anyway, there would be no chance for a quicky as my mum would literally be with us all the time!!. and YES we go to vegas a week on sunday!!! cant wait, at least this 2WW will be ok as I will be having lots of fun there.
sorry if I forgot anyone else! hope you all have a great weekend, Im hoping to convince hubby to go for dinner and a movie tomorrow. Not long till monday....preethi I think you asked what will happen on monday....they will do an ultrasound to see how many follicles I have produced this cycle, and if any are mature they will send me home with the trigger shot. then I will probably have IUI on wednesday as you usually ovulate 2 days after the trigger and they aim for same day IUI. with that hubby has to go at 8am to give his sample and I go around noon for the procedure. Yikes!!!!
glad you are done with camp and doing well. Hope you get enough rest soon!! 
and thanks a bunch for giving me the wonderful idea of having the sonographer write the gender on a (hand-made) card, reading it later at home while snuggled together with DH and later making it part of baby album 
and TGIF 
Oh and thanks for the great explanation on the different stages (IUI, IVF etc) I get so confused! 
and New York! 
and DH wanted to find out, now he doesn't care "whatever you want" he says and my resolve is slowly slipping... 
If we have a boy, they'll do the same thing I'm sure, but we still have loads of gender neutral clothes up to 3 months. 
