So IVf was successful?! Brilliant here'a treat you might not know about...

So you've had IVF and you have been amazingly lucky and its been successful? Well here is something they don't tell you in the brochures.

Just before you have your transfer you could have to start taking 3x estrogen tablets and, if like me, 3x pessaries of progestrogene a day. This is to help to keep a period at bay and control your ovaries and then to keep the Uterus healthy and baby ready. It also helps afterwards to support the baby until the placenta has fully developed up until around 12 weeks.

That's right people you have to shove things up the lady garden 3x a day for 12+ weeks!

Now, this is difficult subject to discuss with some people, but I am not one of those people and I will now tell you of my glorious experience.

Something goes up, well its must then come down? Correct.

So most ladies think that sticking your legs in the air and lying down is the way to go, well... yes this works but it will eventually and inevitably come out. And my god, does it! Panty liners are you friends for life with this.

BUT you might be like me and you work a job where you are called to welcome guests or make tea/coffees or grab some work etc very last min or generally on your feet running around all day.

So 11am comes along, you go to the loo, do the business of inserting your buddy. Well, where do you then go to keep this in? Well if you are like me you try to be an acrobat and bend in strange ways to keep some of it there!

"Oh sure I am perfectly comfortable contorted like this"

SO... I went to the clinic and with this issue in mind I had also become very annoyed "down there" so I was told the next best thing for me was....SUPPOSITORIES!!

Oh. Dear. God.

Well..... where to do I begin? I dont think I have any dignity left.

I offically have lost all fear of the untalkable. Everything is fine subject to discuss. I have had every orifice poked prodded and inserted into. (Yep, I feel queezy too.)

BUT these bad boys are great, they dont come out (if you just take a moment and ignore the "excuse me, I need to be escape" feeling, it goes quickly), they are quick, you dont have to really lie down after and they dont leak.... or so I thought.

This brings me to a small warning- Never trust a bottom trump.

Thats right my friends;

1- these make a lady hella gassy.

2- if you think its safe.... it really isnt.

So you thought a burp was safe- no its isn't anymore with nausea and then you thought the other end was too- no it isnt. NO EXIT IS SAFE!!!!

My advice for both pessaries and suppositiories for pregancy and IVF in general- ALWAYS HAVE 2 SPARE PAIRS OF PANTS IN YOUR BAG.

We go through so much with getting a family and your dignity might feel its gone down the loo with your breakfast but my other peice of advice, laugh about it. Don't be embarassed its not easy, especially when you are following a million phone alarms to insert or swallow things, eat the right foods and trying not to vomit at the smell of your once loved marmite on toast (lets not even discuss this sad topic).

H x