August - first month of TTC? Join me!

Klou and Liz hope it goes well at the weekend.

Madkatz - I think I Ov on Saturday so guess we'll be testing at about the same time. Have cut right back on caffeine and booze (not a big drinker normally honest ) Really hopeful this month...

Good luck ladies x

We'll be testing together then!!

dont lose hope tho, it might be too early to show. mine is due 8th too

Was very naughty and did a test, BFN (slapped wrists for me). Not surprising.

Got that metallic taste again today, tastes different from the other day but still metallic.
AF due 8th November so prob test at weekend. Here's hoping :)

Been the longest month of my life so far!!

Good luck to the rest of you x

well fingers crossed for you for this time. my temps are still all over the place, but i am not sure i am doing it right. because dh goes to work fairly early, my sleep is often broken and i doze, not fully asleep for maybe a couple of hours before my alarm goes off at 7.15 when i take my temp. this might be affecting the temperature do you think?

Morning All,

Finally had a cycle with fairly level temps and a rise this morning which I am taking as OV being over.

So now the wait.

How's it going everyone?

KLOU I AM SURE I HAVE READ SOMEWHERE THAT A METALLIC TASTE IS A SIGN ,HOPE SO, FINGERS CROSSED! AND YES I HAVE BEEN TWICE BEFORE, BUT LOVEI T AND WOULD LIVE THERE IF I COULD[GRIN]

AND NO DIDNT SEE ANY GHOSTS! WAS VERY INTERESTING THOUGH

Hi Mama stil have EWCM so still trying. Then I've got the wait.

KLou Sounds like embedding cramping ....good luck. I know what you mean about looking into everything in the 2ww, I was the same last month.

Hi all

Bit of a question for you. Had a bit of cramping last night and also had a metallic taste in my mouth for most of the day. Is this a 'sign'?? :)

Am not sure if I OV on 21st or 24th (strong cramping on right side on 21st but FF said 24th). Am approx 6-9 DPO. Not sure??

2ww is driving me crazy as looking into everything!!

Congrats on the tickets Klou - v jealous!!!
liz am also on the 2ww now. Nothing so glam as going to new york to distract me... hope you have a fantastic time.

Madkatz how is your 2ww going?

You lucky thing!!!! Have you ever been?? We went 6 years ago for hubbys 30th, had the BEST time ever. Try and do a dinner cruise with World Yachts. Was about £50 each but had 3 hours on the boat sailing around the edge of NYC and was fab!!!

Did you see any ghosts??

evening all. i have just been on a ghost walk around lincoln, was very good, something different i suppose!!i think i am past my most fertile, so now just waiting for af. i go to new york on wednesday and i am due on the day i come back on sunday.

I've got Take That tickets, I've got Take That tickets!!!!

Can't wait, although hubby and I just worked out that if I have caught this month I'll be 8 months preggars in the middle of summer. Oh well, sooooooooooo worth it!!! Been trying all day!!

Hiya all - any plans for the weekend? Nothing on for us but shagging. Lots of saliva ferning this morning and EWCM. BD last night and going to pounce on DH again tonight! He won't know what's hit him.

On the pillow/wipe dilemma... Have been trying not to worry about it too much - though have deliberately NOT been leaping up immediately/having a shower straight afterwards.

Liz - god it really is frustrating hearing people bemoaning their fertility - someone at work usually follows it up with stories about how easy she finds childbirth. If this baby takes as long to get as our first I might just ask her to act as a surrogate just to shut her up. (DS was a four-day induction and forceps job - worth every bit of it but it was not exactly easy!)

pmsl KLou - never thought about that

cow!!

i know. a bloke at work only has to look at his wife and shes pregnant. takes literally weeks for her to get pregnant

Just shag and enjoy it for gods sake!!!!!

(Hears the girls saying 'well you can talk.....')

Aren't we all a bit mad. Like someone else said on here or another thread, those on TV in the 3rd world don't seem to have a problem, and I bet they don't put a pillow under their arse's (be-atch's) :)

I know what you mean about reading too much. I just keep thinking that although sperm swim upwards, gravity can still take its course, so I've continued using a pillow to help them along!

god my spelling is rubbish today

i used to put a pillow unber my bum, but then i read that sperm swims upwards, so effectivly would be swimming the wrong way, but you read that many things you dont know whats right

Hi liz.

I lie back and time half an hour with a fairly flat cushion/pillow under my bum. I read that you should raise your hips and bum slightly (but not too much) to get the flow right. And relax. I normally cuddle with DH, read or listen to music and have nodded off in this position in the past. And I've found I don't feel as sticky after so it must be working. Then I go to the loo but I don't wipe as much as I normally would and put a towel under me for the rest of the night if I still feel sticky.

I agree that it is is TMI but if we dont share hints and tips, whats MN for?

Fingers crossed for you this cycle.

thats clearer! not cleared

morning ladies, just looked in my diary and i am on day 17 of my cycle. i am fairly confident we have had enough sex over my fertile period, so hopefull it will all have found its way to the right place.

now i need a ask a tim question! after having sex, do you lie back and let it sink in, or wait and wipe? sorry but i need to know what other people do! i usually wait 15 minutes then go to the loo and wipe as i cant stand to feel so sticky!

on a positive note, i have had a slightly higher temperature yesterday and today, still not looking any cleared though