Companies?

Girls - which companies are we using for IVF? I was looking at abc IVF, as its so reasonable, but I’ve been slightly put off by the fact if I get OHSS we basically have to pay the whole price over again, totalling like £5.5-£6K which is over what we have to spend🥺 debating Antalya IVF but just so unsure on the travel side of things.

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I would really research what you are looking for and consider options considering a many factors as you can I have done 2 nhs rounds in UK and then I went abroad to Greece, I have felt the level of care along with the price has been great in greece despite my round having to be cancelled part the way through. The support I have received is high standard and am due to go back in March for next round. Every experience is different but I would advise seeing if there are any free open days/ free consultations available to get more of an insight, that's how I found the greece one.

I did mine at CRGH at Great Portland Street. Some stuff was great. Some other stuff not so great. But I got pregnant on the first transfer, so they must do something right!

I used kind IVF with London women's clinic as I have unexplained infertility. Super reasonable! I think my whole round IVF including meds was £2750! Fresh was successful and I've also had successful FET which cost ~£4k

My advice is go to open days to get a feel off the clinics and also look into finance options etc as there are packages with companies like Access where you can have unlimited FETs if unsuccessful. All depends why you need IVF

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One and done… or not?

32ftm. I’m starting to feel so much pressure to have another baby soon as I wean from breastfeeding so they can be close in age and be friends, but I don’t feel ready for pregnancy and newborn trenches again 😭 my husband and I are all we’ve got. Having just one baby without a village has been really tough. Am I being unrealistic wanting another one soon?

I'm so not meant to be a mother.

My kids won't listen to me get into stuff when they know they aren't supposed to. Telling me no all the time. Only listen to their dad. Laughs when I correct them. I spend most of my time yelling at them because they don't want to listen to me at all. My husband said that I shouldn't have kids. And I am believing him on it. I was never meant to be a mother now. I won't hurt my kids I just want to disappear and make everyone else's lives better without me.

Baby #2??

I really want baby number 2 and am thinking of doing it via IUI as a solo mama!
Has anyone had any experiences with it 👀

Tests

So I had a blood test at the drs bc I keep getting positive tests when the blood test was negative what could this mean? Hubby says the tests are negative and said he can’t see anything. Negative image down below.

Am I pregnant?

I lightly spotted almost 5 days ago, which is not common for me before my period.
My period was supposed to come today. I should have tested in the morning but its 5:30pm.
Is there a second line??

Anyone have this happen before?

We were not trying to conceive, used protection and had sex on week 2 of my cycle (accidentally on my peak ovulation day). Week 3 we had Flu A. Week 4 my period did not come (it’s very regular). I tested and it was negative (2 different brands).
What should have been week 2 of my next cycle (now 6 weeks post last period), I had light red/ pink spotting for one day when I wiped. The following week, I tested again, still negative, but this time almost all the dye was in the negative space, which I’ve never seen happen before. The area where it shows one horizontal line for negative and a plus sign for positive, the horizontal line was super faded at the 3 minute mark, and the negative vertical line in the next window was VERY dark. Now I’m on week 8 of all this, period did not show up yesterday. Nothing in my life has changed (no additional stress, no other illness, no changes in diet or exercise, etc).

Has anyone gone through this and NOT been pregnant? I’m super nervous as we thought we were done having kids.

PS. I know I should go get a blood test, does anyone know if urgent care will do that? I’m past being convinced by a pee test.