The first big day for Mellybelly!
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Topic: The first big day for Mellybelly!
Posted By: ginger
Subject: The first big day for Mellybelly!
Date Posted: 03 April 2008 at 8:41am
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Saying good luck doesn't seem enough - I'm hoping with everything in me that today goes perfectly, and I'll be thinking of you constantly over the next few days hoping and praying that everything happens as it should.
Everything is crossed for you. 
2.5 hours to go!! ------------- Cuinn Lachlan 23.1.09 - 22:00 Antonia Helene 4.8.11 - 09:41 |
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Posted By: caraMel
Date Posted: 03 April 2008 at 9:11am
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Sending lots and lots of positive vibes to you Melly Belly! ------------- Mel, Mummy to E: 6, B: 4 and: 
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Posted By: Kels
Date Posted: 03 April 2008 at 9:40am
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Best of luck Melly Belly ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Lulu
Date Posted: 03 April 2008 at 9:44am
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Good luck Melly Belly, I hope you get lots of lovely eggies! ------------- Lou http://www.babysfirstsite.com"> 
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Posted By: Red
Date Posted: 03 April 2008 at 10:02am
| Thinking of you Melly ....... love Red |
Posted By: Paws
Date Posted: 03 April 2008 at 12:07pm
Best of luck and sending up prayers for you!! ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: noodle
Date Posted: 03 April 2008 at 12:14pm
Lots and lots of luck heading your way melly!!! thinking of you hun!  ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: mellybelly
Date Posted: 03 April 2008 at 6:07pm
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Wow - thank you all so very very much for all the good wishes.
Egg Collection went well, have ended up with 6 eggs out of the 8 follicles (2 were empty). I don't recall any of the procedure as I was pretty out of it, was anesthetised due to Endo. Am a little achy, wheatbag doing the trick there - have been lying on the couch all arvo. The embryologist is calling tomorrow morning at 9.30 with the news of how many have fertilized. All going well we'll be back in on sunday for transfer. Again, thank you all very much for the good wishes. 
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Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 03 April 2008 at 6:51pm
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Wow exciting for you Melly, hope 9.30 tomorrow gives you great news. How many are you looking at having transferred?? ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
Posted By: mellybelly
Date Posted: 03 April 2008 at 6:55pm
As we are on the public system and it is our first IVF we are only allowed to have one transferred. |
mummy_becks wrote:Posted By: floss
Date Posted: 03 April 2008 at 7:32pm
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Good luck hope it all goes to plan for you ! ------------- My beautiful big girl Sienna 15.04.06 Double the trouble double the fun Noah & Lola 10/11/07 |
Posted By: my2angels
Date Posted: 03 April 2008 at 8:54pm
| good luck, will have my fingers and toes crossed for you |
Posted By: yummymummy
Date Posted: 03 April 2008 at 10:51pm
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Good luck ------------- http://lilypie.com">  http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: noodle
Date Posted: 04 April 2008 at 7:09am
good luck for the news today melly! Fingers crossd for all fertilised  ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: ginger
Date Posted: 04 April 2008 at 8:07am
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Everything crossed!!
When you say anaethetised (sp - too lazy to check! ) - were you under general, or whatever they do for conscious sedation? ------------- Cuinn Lachlan 23.1.09 - 22:00 Antonia Helene 4.8.11 - 09:41 |
Posted By: mellybelly
Date Posted: 04 April 2008 at 9:01am
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Not quite a general, I was coming and going, but more than they normally do for this procedure. Apparently i was talking and asking how many eggs, but don't remember a thing, as far as I was concerned i was sound asleep
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Posted By: jack_&_charli
Date Posted: 04 April 2008 at 9:45am
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all the best mel!!!
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Posted By: Leelee
Date Posted: 04 April 2008 at 9:47am
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All the very best. I too hope you get some good news this morning ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: ginger
Date Posted: 04 April 2008 at 9:59am
I hope they do the same for me  But then, I think your endo was worse than mine 
Apparently the EC is extremely painful if you have endo - I'm not sure why, but it seems to make a difference somehow. When do you find out how fertilisation has gone? ------------- Cuinn Lachlan 23.1.09 - 22:00 Antonia Helene 4.8.11 - 09:41 |
Posted By: mellybelly
Date Posted: 04 April 2008 at 10:31am
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Have just had 'the' phone call.....we started with 6 eggs yesterday and now have 6 fertilised eggs 100% success rate so far we are so stoked...
The clinic is calling this afternoon with the timings etc for Sunday. |
Posted By: caraMel
Date Posted: 04 April 2008 at 10:34am
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That's awesome!!! Will they freeze the other 5 embryos for the future? ------------- Mel, Mummy to E: 6, B: 4 and:
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Posted By: ginger
Date Posted: 04 April 2008 at 11:14am
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That's incredible! Isn't fertilisation rate normally about 70% ?? What clever eggs and sperms!! Are you doing ICSI or standard IVF? I forget! ------------- Cuinn Lachlan 23.1.09 - 22:00 Antonia Helene 4.8.11 - 09:41 |
Posted By: mellybelly
Date Posted: 04 April 2008 at 11:46am
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I think they did normal ivf and yes success rate is normally between 60 & 80 %.
They will replace one and freeze the others either at 3 day 8 cell or 5 day blastocyst depending on how they progress. |
Posted By: noodle
Date Posted: 04 April 2008 at 12:21pm
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YAAAAAAAAAAYYYYY Awesome news chick! what clever eggies and spermies!!! ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: kiwigal
Date Posted: 04 April 2008 at 2:22pm
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Mellybelly excellent news |
Posted By: Lulu
Date Posted: 04 April 2008 at 3:17pm
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Awesome Mellybelly! Woo hoo! ------------- Lou http://www.babysfirstsite.com">
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Posted By: aimeejoy
Date Posted: 04 April 2008 at 3:44pm
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Wow, thats fantastic news! All the best for Sunday!! ------------- Aimee Hannah 22/10/05 Greer 11/02/08 |
Posted By: Bizzy
Date Posted: 04 April 2008 at 3:53pm
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wow, i'm happy tearful for you!!! and yeah good luck just doesnt seem to cut it! ------------- http://www.myfitnesspal.com/weight-loss-ticker"> 
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Posted By: catie
Date Posted: 04 April 2008 at 4:03pm
| Wow Mellybelly that's great! Good luck. |
Posted By: zebra
Date Posted: 04 April 2008 at 4:13pm
| Great news MellyBelly, will be thinking of you this weekend. |
Posted By: jack_&_charli
Date Posted: 04 April 2008 at 4:22pm
ditto!!!! ------------- http://www.alternatickers.com">
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Posted By: mellybelly
Date Posted: 04 April 2008 at 5:10pm
Transfer is all booked for Sunday at 12.30 - need to turn up with a 'comfortable full bladder'...
Also, they're calling tomorrow with the progress of our wee embies..
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Posted By: floss
Date Posted: 04 April 2008 at 7:58pm
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Wow how exciting for you!! all the best for Sunday ------------- My beautiful big girl Sienna 15.04.06 Double the trouble double the fun Noah & Lola 10/11/07 |
Posted By: my2angels
Date Posted: 04 April 2008 at 10:02pm
| good luck for sunday! |
Posted By: Rachael21
Date Posted: 04 April 2008 at 11:19pm
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Yay thats so great about them all fertilising, good luck for sunday
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Posted By: mellybelly
Date Posted: 05 April 2008 at 12:18pm
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Latest update on our embies....
we have: 1 at 5 cells 2 at 4 cells 3 at 2 cells
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Posted By: noodle
Date Posted: 05 April 2008 at 2:55pm
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Yay mellybelly!!! awesome news good luck for tomorrow hun! will be thinking bout ya and keeping fingers firmly crossed!! ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: Bombshell
Date Posted: 05 April 2008 at 9:13pm
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well done...now hope that sunday goes well for you and that you get a BFP youve been wishing for..all the best
and Ginger...hugs hon cause I know how hard it is for you to be your beutiful wonderful supportive self and yet be going through this all of the same hopes and wishes at the same time. |
Posted By: Red
Date Posted: 06 April 2008 at 10:15am
| Go little embie, do your thing! |
Posted By: noodle
Date Posted: 06 April 2008 at 10:37am
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GOOD LUCK FOR TODAY MELLYBELLY!!!!
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Posted By: mellybelly
Date Posted: 06 April 2008 at 1:53pm
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All went well today .
We've got a nice 8 cell embryo that has been transfered. We've been lucky enough to have two others at 8 cells available to be frozen and two others at 9 cells that are going to be monitored to blastocyst stage and if all is ok they'll freeze those. We lost one embryo due to not dividing properly. I can't rate the staff at FA highly enough, they have been fabulous during our treatment and today just topped it off.
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Posted By: noodle
Date Posted: 06 April 2008 at 3:00pm
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WOOHOO mellybelly that is a fab outcome ya gota be pleased with that! i'm sooooo happy for you and your DH lots of luck for you 2WW and a massive BFP at the end!!! ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: caraMel
Date Posted: 06 April 2008 at 7:09pm
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Woohoo! That is great!! Stay put and grow little one! ------------- Mel, Mummy to E: 6, B: 4 and:
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Posted By: yummymummy
Date Posted: 07 April 2008 at 2:58am
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Yey! All the best - hope all turns out OK ------------- http://lilypie.com"> http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: Lulu
Date Posted: 07 April 2008 at 1:32pm
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A wonderful outcome Mellybelly, perfect! Good luck for your 2ww and bloodtest. ------------- Lou http://www.babysfirstsite.com">
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Posted By: ginger
Date Posted: 07 April 2008 at 2:07pm
How on earth did I miss all this? (I'll blame hormones  )
I'm glad everything went so well Melly ------------- Cuinn Lachlan 23.1.09 - 22:00 Antonia Helene 4.8.11 - 09:41 |
Posted By: peanut butter
Date Posted: 07 April 2008 at 3:22pm
| Well done Melly! Cant wait for the BFP!!! |
Posted By: mellybelly
Date Posted: 07 April 2008 at 5:41pm
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Ginger - is did all happen over the weekend so you are excused
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Posted By: ginger
Date Posted: 08 April 2008 at 8:18am
Stupid broken computer  I hate only being able to get online during work! Especially when I have work to do! ------------- Cuinn Lachlan 23.1.09 - 22:00 Antonia Helene 4.8.11 - 09:41 |
Posted By: catie
Date Posted: 08 April 2008 at 12:05pm
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That's fantastic Mellybelly - hope your 2WW speeds by to give you a fabulous result!
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Posted By: mellybelly
Date Posted: 08 April 2008 at 1:46pm
Thank you all...apparently I couldn't stop saying that immediately after EC to all the people in the theatre 
Anyway - back at work today, not doing too badly, except have an upset tummy (feels like something isn't sitting right.. just below ribs ) and am really tired, had hoped that symptom would disappear...am heading off home in about an hour to have a nap and continue working from there - good when you can count internet searching as your work...
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Posted By: noodle
Date Posted: 09 April 2008 at 7:09am
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i hope you are feeling a bit better today mellybelly When do you hear about your other 2 embiees? and how they went at blastocyst? ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: mellybelly
Date Posted: 09 April 2008 at 6:37pm
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Felt better today but still bailed from work early (4pm)
Heard from Lab today that one didn't make it to Blastocyst and the other while it did make it it wasn't of high enough quality to freeze - so we still have two 8 cell embryos frozen |
Posted By: emachan
Date Posted: 09 April 2008 at 8:05pm
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fantastic news mellybelly! sending sticky dust your way! ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow">  DD#1 Sept 08 DD#2 Oct 09 |
Posted By: noodle
Date Posted: 10 April 2008 at 12:39pm
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sorry the blastocyst embies didn't make it but yay for 2 8 cell ice babies! ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: mellybelly
Date Posted: 10 April 2008 at 1:28pm
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Not having such a flash day today. Went to the bathroom today at work and noticed a bit of bleeding, was more like pink mucus and got a bit freaked out. It has stopped now, didn't actually last long, now have a small bit of brown spotting.
Spoke to nurse at FAA and she assures me this is normal, as long as I don't get lots of fresh red blood accompanied by pain (which i don't)but that I need to take it easy and rest up - so am now at home spending time on the couch with the sky remote (gotta love the living & food channels). Lulu or evolsun, did either of you experience this? |
Posted By: Snickerdoodle
Date Posted: 10 April 2008 at 1:44pm
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I don't know a lot about IVF, but could it be implantation?
I've got all my fingers crossed for you
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Posted By: mellybelly
Date Posted: 10 April 2008 at 3:56pm
| I suppose it could be, not sure how much (spotting) would you account for that? |
Posted By: Lulu
Date Posted: 10 April 2008 at 3:58pm
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Hi Melly, gosh I am trying to think back. I know I had some bleeding throughout the injections, but I don't think I had any after embryo transfer. But the nurses are so experienced in the different things that happen, I would definately take her word for it that you shouldn't worry unless the bleeding gets worse and you have pain. It's such a hard time Melly, I know that I worried about every twinge I felt and wondered what they all meant. The two week wait is the hardest part of the whole IVF journey I think. What date is your bloodtest? ------------- Lou http://www.babysfirstsite.com">
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Posted By: Lulu
Date Posted: 10 April 2008 at 4:07pm
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Oh and another thing that I just remembered was while I don't think I had any bleeding after embryo transfer, I did have a couple of pinkey mucous after I got a BFP. I freaked out, but it was all normal and o.k. ------------- Lou http://www.babysfirstsite.com">
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Posted By: mellybelly
Date Posted: 10 April 2008 at 5:27pm
| Thanks for the reassurance BT is a week away |
Posted By: jack_&_charli
Date Posted: 10 April 2008 at 5:42pm
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i bet this will be the longest week of your life! all the best mel ------------- http://www.alternatickers.com">
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Posted By: ginger
Date Posted: 11 April 2008 at 8:32am
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Argh - so I'm not the only one having panic attacks? (I don't think down reg is going well this time either)
How are you doing today melly??
I have everything crossed that you're coming out of this with your baby - one of us has to!! ------------- Cuinn Lachlan 23.1.09 - 22:00 Antonia Helene 4.8.11 - 09:41 |
Posted By: mellybelly
Date Posted: 11 April 2008 at 9:28am
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no you are definitely not alone with the panic attacks!
Not doing too bad today, spotting seems to have abated a bit - haven't made it to work yet. Am giving it another half hour then will reassess. So fingers crossed all it was was implantation bleeding and spotting to do with that No one did ever say that TTC or IVF would be easy
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Posted By: ginger
Date Posted: 11 April 2008 at 9:36am
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That's good that you're ok - hopefully the spotting stops, and yes, it would be wonderful if it was implantation bleeding. It would make sense if it was about now too, wouldn't it for implantation?
I knew IVF would be hard, but I really wasn't prepared for the mental endurance required. I don't suppose anything can prepare you for it really. Ah well - pg test for you next week, down reg BT for me - bring on next week huh? ------------- Cuinn Lachlan 23.1.09 - 22:00 Antonia Helene 4.8.11 - 09:41 |
Posted By: mellybelly
Date Posted: 11 April 2008 at 11:35am
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Have decided not to go to work today - taking another day just to make sure all is ok.
Have just started getting niggly pains (aches really) around my ovaries, guess it could just be them healing, they got some pretty rough treatment last week. Anyway back off to the couch.
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Posted By: ginger
Date Posted: 11 April 2008 at 1:34pm
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Good plan - it's not worth over doing it at this stage. Not even a little bit! ------------- Cuinn Lachlan 23.1.09 - 22:00 Antonia Helene 4.8.11 - 09:41 |
Posted By: my2angels
Date Posted: 11 April 2008 at 1:55pm
| i got sore ovaries around the implantation time with both my pregnancies! Not to get your hopes up or anything but it could be a good sign |
Posted By: noodle
Date Posted: 13 April 2008 at 7:32am
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oooh fingers crossed mellybelly! what day is your blood test chick?
to you ginger i really hope your body is behaving this time and your blood results will be just as they want them to be! ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: ginger
Date Posted: 13 April 2008 at 10:36am
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Me too noodle - I'm supposed to have had a bleed after the trigger injection but I haven't, although I'm cramping something terrible. BT is Tuesday and I'm really worried. I guess though that I can't change anything - I'm my body isn't behaving, it isn't behaving. Mind you, last time I had a bleed which was supposed to be a good sign, and it was the complete opposite so who knows? ------------- Cuinn Lachlan 23.1.09 - 22:00 Antonia Helene 4.8.11 - 09:41 |