butterfly and sending you lots of 
for stickyness I'm glad you're going forward with the IVF and I truly hope this will be for your much deserved sticky baby 
I have a student for lunch on Wednesday's and the preggo three staff always sit at the same table. Even being pregnant makes me want to tell them to shut up or change the subject as all they do is moan and I have often said shut up you don't realise how lucky you are big and to you all
AFM, things got even crazier after my last post. We went in to the clinic Friday morning to get our blood drawn for the necessary pre-IVF labs, and we had them go ahead and do an ultrasound and E2 on me just in case DH and I decided to go ahead with an IUI this cycle. We sat down with our nurse for a menopur tutorial (I haven't used it before and it's part of my IVF protocol), and she had some news for us - she'd learned that if we were comfortable accepting the risk that I might not be immune to rubella and chicken pox, we COULD go ahead and start IVF now if we wanted to.The full story is in my journal, but the gist of it is that official policy is that you can't start until the labs are done because they'd have to cancel the cycle mid-way if the HIV or hepatitis tests were positive (they're required to by the gov't.) But given that we are confident those won't be a problem for us, the clinic agreed to let us start now. On top of that, we know I'm immune to chicken pox (because I had a bad case when I was 9 or 10), and we know my rubella immunity status was good within the last few years so we're willing to bet that it's still good now.
After deliberating all day yesterday, we decided to go ahead and do IVF now. I started the injections this morning.We'd both gotten ourselves so geared up for it this week that, now that we once again had the option to start now, we didn't want to sit around another 4 weeks and get ourselves all worked up for it again - we just want to get it over with now.
on!! to you hun! xxx
HA-I think this is really brilliant news. Waiting and worrying is the worst thing about IVF and now that you will have started, you will feel so much more in control! Brilliant!! Grow follies grow!!! How much menopur are you on every day? Do they test you for your E2 with each scan too?
Good luck to you hun, and let's bring that
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She saw my reaction and quickly reassured me that the giant needle is for mixing the diluent and the powder, NOT for sticking in my bum - the bum needle is MUCH smaller!!! She then had me stand up so she could teach DH how to inject it, and he was clearly uncomfortable with it... in our first IUI cycle he tried doing one of my follistim injections just to see if he could, and he did NOT take it well - he got pretty freaked out about sticking me. Well, with this IM injection in the bum, there is no way I can do that one to myself... so my amazing nurse, seeing his reaction, asked exactly where we live... she then said, depending on what time of day my trigger shot winds up needing to be done, that she would come to the house and give it to me herself because she only lives 20 min away. Can you believe that??!!! My nurse is amazing!! 
your way and waiting for news. big just because - I hope you ladies are doing ok? to everyone else including (but not limited to) Missy, Twinkle, FM, Heavenly, anorak, Nikki, LadyH, Northstar, skye, lava and everyone Ive missed (sorry)
and my DH brought himself a bottle of Zinc tablets today, because he's read they are good for men preconception (with absolutely no promting or mention from me!!) I am just so happy about Butterfly I have nothing else to add 
Loving all the s in the 35+ group!
, healthy 
, and to all.
myself lol
Butterfly - I actually had a little cry for you, Im so happy!! I was trying to tell DH about you, and the tears just camecongratulations again. Have you told your partner yet??
Yes he is very pleased too - hopefully I'll pop down to see him tomorrow for a celebratory meal 
wow and OH big up, I wish mine would!! Apparently I all obsessed when I should be NTNP
your way
(sorry all british humour)
HA - OH will get over it and get used to sticking it in your arse
I'm so glad I'm not the only one with a filthy mind!!
HA - OH will get over it and get used to sticking it in your arse
You know, when I wrote that post the first thing that I typed was that DH was freaked out at the thought of sticking it to me in the bum... I went back and reworded it!
Hope everyone's Friday goes well
afm - I know Im going to sound like a complete bitch, but I just found out someone in work is pregnant
Purple--there is a girl in our group who is pregnant and site in the next cubicle. people stop all day to talk about the pregnancy. sometimes they go on and on about women over 35 (she is 25) trying to have babies and how awful it is that they waited so long
I'm afraid to say I went to see a friend the days after O and we drank a couple of bottles in 2 days between us and then this last 10 days I have probably had half a dozen drinks before I got the bfp 
