FET #2

FET #2 is a go tomorrow!

When I went for my scan (after 2 weeks of oestrogen) my lining was thick enough first time - last time I had to wait a few more days.  I'm putting this down to a full glass of pomegranate juice every day since I started the oestrogen.

Mr T chased up my smear results early last week and, fortunately, everything is fine in that respect so there's nothing stopping us now.

We have the trains booked to get to London and we've taken some pointers from last time:

1.  We've spent a little bit more money so we can travel at peak times, which will enable us to not have to walk around London killing hours until the train.  We walked about 8 miles after transfer last time which probably didn't help because it put quite a bit of stress on my body and my joints hurt a lot the day afterwards.

2.  I have a really good support network set up at work so I will be avoiding lifting files around as much as possible.  Last time, although a few people knew, I tried to carry on as normal.  Whilst this might not have had any effect, it's worth trying to be a little bit more careful.

3.  I will be having the whole 2 week wait (9 days in our case) away from the gym.  I'll be doing a lot of walking and gentle stretching but nothing that gets my heart rate up too much and nothing involving heavy lifting.  Once I am pregnant, I WILL be getting back to exercise though!  I've joined a new gym with a pool recently so I've been doing a lot of swimming.

4.  I got quite excited last time and ALS accidentally named the embryo, which he said goodnight to every night.  When it didn't work, I was crushed.  I know it will hurt regardless but I don't want to get my hopes up too much.  I'm running on a principle of "Hope for the best, but expect the worst" and trying to be realistic.

Hopefully, these few small changes might have a bit of an impact on my chances of success!

In other news, I found out this morning that one of my close friends is pregnant.  I'm not saddened by this at all, she's been trying for a while for her second child and was trying for well over 2 years for her first so she's more than deserving of a baby.  I'll be an honorary aunty to her new baby, just like I am to her daughter already and I'm over the moon for her and her husband.

Weirdly, it works out that she'll be 2 weeks ahead of me if this transfer works.  When my sister-in-law found out she was pregnant, it was the day of our first transfer and she's 2 weeks ahead of when I would have been due with that one.  Let's hope that this isn't a sign of failure this time.

All being well tomorrow, Beta day will be 22nd Feb - watch this space!