Just MC and ready to try again? Pack your cake wine and tightie whities and join us for more ranting weeping and most of all laughing! All welcome! (Part 9)

Hey orange hope work by yourself goes ok today! It's rubbish when you're the only one in-you end up answering all the phones and doing everyone else's work too. On the upside are there lots of chrimbo choccies you can snaffle?

I don't know either nix-FF reckons I'm 17 dpo, which ties in with the shag dictator's thoughts, and all those temps have been over FF's (somewhat dubious) coverline, although I'm just skimming it now. Also defo had preg boobs for last 2 days but they've disappeared. Oh well, am just gonna assume I'm not pg and hunker down in wait for AF.

I don't know pink, you have only had highs for ten days po. The positive test would suggest it but to my inexperienced eye the temps wouldn't if that makes sense? 18 highs is a pg isn't it?

I know a line is a line etc and you can get a false negative but not a false positive sonow I am confused! Sorry not helpful

Morning, wow I missed loads

Nix I am so sorry you have this to worry about. I agree with the others and would ring the epau direct, worst they can say is no
Tigger sorry she got you, she's been busy lately :(
at Dachs guilt iPad - though I have drawn a pic of a necklace and some earrings I saw and said either would be nice for Xmas
ladybee I'd say every other day too. That was pretty much our scattergun approach
Pink sorry I don't know about temps and charts, hopefully someone else can help. I am crossing everything for you tho that temps are ok and you get a BFP

I have my ClearBlue Digital which dh has confiscated until tomorrow morning, so am hoping I make it that far most if my office is snowed in but lucky me walks to work so gets to go in to a virtually empty office :(

Had a panic at my low temps today, definitely a BFN today, chart is predicting imminent RTD: chart so chem preg?

Psml at dachs, that's the sort of thing I would do:) very jealous at the guilt iPad!! Having said that dh has just got up to get me a hot juice to ease off this cough, a kinder way of saying shut the fuck up I'm trying to sleep!! Bless! I was a witch to him when he was sick, and he has been juicing me oranges, making me hot drinks etc!

Pink and Ar everything crossed for no evap lines! You are both very restrained I have to say!

Mama sorry she got you x

Back to sleep for me, I have been snoring since 8 but woke coughing but eyes are drooping now

Sorry if I missed anyone, waves xxx

oooh was in shops earlier today, the evil superdrug lured me with two for one on their cheapo tests. So now I have a total of five tests stockpiled even though I promised to keep off them till New Year's Eve.
Hope everyone who is poorly feels better very soon in time for xmas.
dachs glad to hear your colleagues were sympathetic.
pink yeah if you look at all the sticks in my bathroom and you didn't know they were cbfms, the uninitiated in ttc would see a line of what they thought were preg tests too. Obviously lining them up is ultra-scientific. The whole purpose of the shag dictator is that you don't need to study the lines, the monitor does that for you! That never stops me though :)
Definitely not ready for xmas round here. Not helped by the fact that Amazon Santa refuses to deliver on time. Despite the fact I paid extra delivery. Bit of a catch 22 cos internet can't deliver and snow makes going to the shops myself a hellish experience.

pink glad the revenge waking up sounds as good to someone else as it felt to me! Colleagues v understanding about meltdown, especially a couple of them who really looked after me. Although now they all think I'm a psychotic head case and keep looking at me strangely.

Baublenabe sorry ds sick :( so many shitty bugs! Hope he's ok and your carpet survives! I'm ok still a little feverish. Having to take paracetamol and penicillin for vag strep a so not best pliz! No further cm it's clear, none since first episode this morn . Who knows where the nausea has gone to? Hopefully masked by feeling so rotten !

Ta for reassuring comments about 3+ weeks will see how it pans out! Can do nothing but wait!

Sorry for me post, catch up properly later when not on phone xx

Wow it's been crazy busy in here today!!!! Thanks all for putting all your flashing tinselly suspenders on! Nix not so much of a BFP as a "if you squint hard enough, at the right angle, in the right light" positive - am going to test later on this week and hope for something a bit more concrete! Hehe at landing light suspenders - I think that might push a few of the DPs over the edge!!!! How are you feeling now hun?

LMAO at owly's peestick mountain Please make a pretty picture out of them, please please please! Ha that reminds me - this month I kept all of the evil shag dictator sticks and glued them onto a piece of cardboard to monitor whether the other line gradually changes over time to warn of an impending peak (it doesn't unfortunately). My mum came to stay and was in the house by herself while I was at work and luckily I had hidden my peestick project well away out of sight because when I came back she'd been on a house tidying mission!!!! Agh, can you imagine what she would have made of that??!?! First of all I don't think she would know what they were so would assume that I've been peeing on preg tests every day and had therefore comopletely gone out of my mind....

I can imagine the frustration of a DH that's out of the country all the time and then addicted to a PC game when he's not!!! Could you try wearing some fruity undies and then dance around by the PC to distract him?????? Izz I am well impressed with pre-DC waking up SWI, that truly is commitment! ladybee I second every other day - much more likely to avoid burn out and I reckon I means that whenever you chuck an egg out, there will be a nice batch of swimmers ready and waiting!

dachs I was wondering how you are. I'm sorry about the meltdown - I've had a couple of them so can completely understand. Were your colleagues sympathetic? Excellent work on the guilt tripping!!! Hehe and good revenge waking-up as well

AandR are you fluey or the kids? Hope you're all ok, baubles sorry to hear your little one's ill as well - hope everyone's feeling more like it before the big day.

My DH's been feeling ill too - I've managed to perk him up using flapjack though which is a bit of a result, especially since they sneakily contain a shedload of dates and assorted healthy stuff mixed in with all the sugar and butter......

mamac and mummya big waves to you if you're still lurkying. Hello to wombat and HK and anyone else that I've missed off - I've had to flick pages so really sorry if I've missed anyone. xx

i recommend guilt ipads. it's FAB!

Yes I want a guilt iPad!!!

Xpost Dachs I second that! sorry about your meltdown - I know the feeling very well. Hopefully it will be cathartic and send you off into the New Year a new woman!

mummyb so glad you received such reassuring news. You will be sorely missed but I completely understand the need to stop obsessing!!

"runway lights"!!! [fshocked] Don't think I'll mention that one to DH!

Hello Dachs (((hugs))) about the meltdown. hope you're feeling a bit better now?

"may it be full of sickness, bloating, cramps and squalling infants for all of us" yes please!!

Quick delurk - am in hiding until I can convince myself to pee on new sticks - can't believe I am waiting this long but the hope is much nicer than the confusion of no af and bfns. Big hugs (((Nix))) I am sure it is nothing but nothing worse than unexpected things happening.

Good luck for all those SWIing!! Flashing suspenders should help ( have bizarre image of runway lights guiding dhs' in!! )

Have dds tucked up on sofa watching Charlie&Lola on loop. Feeling very fluey.

Have been being a lurky lurker lately as I had a massive meltdown last week (in front of everyone at work, v v embarrassing, wouldn't recommend it) and have been trying to avoid all things baby related for a few days.

Then DH has his work Xmas party last Thursday and ended up falling asleep on the tube, missed the last train home and had to get a taxi from the depths of North London to Berkshire, where he arrived at 3am. Me not happy. Took great delight in getting him up at 6.30 the following morning and making him get ready for work. (I had the day as holiday). He felt so bad about it that I managed to get him to buy me an iPad as a guilt present at the weekend

Trying to feel more festive and positive this week. All those with fresh BFPs I hope they stick, I'm with all those who can't wait to see the back of the misery of 2010. Bring on 2011 and may it be full of sickness, bloating, cramps and squalling infants for all of us

I'll join you Izz! My AF will be due on 3 Jan, so I'm going to test on NYE morning and if it's BFN, I'm going to allow myself to drink over NY and for the duration of my AF and then detox for the rest of Jan. What do you think my chances are of getting DH to join me on the detox?!

Baubles I have no idea what I'm getting for Chritmas! DH was/is going to buy me a lovely warm coat but we haven't found one yet and I'm not fancying my chances of making it to the shops between now and Xmas eve! He says he's got some other little bits for me, so I'll be making do with those. We were supposed to be having 'Christmas' yesterday with my family because we're due to be at PIL for 'proper' christmas, but the snow stopped anyone getting to us so I'm not going to have those to open on the morning. Still, 'twill mean Xmas goes on for longer!! No bad thing What are you hoping to get??

LadyBee I second owly's suggestion of CD 12, 14 and 15 or 16 if you can muster the energy?!

ladybee sometimes I try every 36 hours in an effort to vary things and not tire him out too much...so say, early Mon morning, Tuesday night, Weds off, early Thurs morning..that way it doesn't get too samey too quickly and we get the odd day off without ne feeling like I'm missing huge gaps >. Requires very early wakening some days sp as not to be interrupted by the munchkins though.

baubles I'm not loving cycle 5 either, but also drinking my way through it. AF is due just before NYE so at least if she shows I can have a good boozy night...

Am also planning major detox for Jan though...anyone else joining me and baubles ?

Hello Bee :) I'd go for tonight and day 14 plus a bonus shag on day 15/16 if you can muster the energy. Tis impossible to shag every night. Impossible I say! Plus they get suspicious of your motives

Nix last time when I mc I did one of those tests at what I thought was 6 + weeks and only got a '2-3 weeks' come up - so yes, I reckon a 3+ is def. a good sign.

ladybee every other day? Or maybe jump him one night on the sofa, usually works for us!

Hello lovelies! I am a leetle playing catch up, and a leetle confuddled. Are piank and dancer having faint lines? Whoop and massive hugs and congrats to both, and apologies if i've missed anything!

HKB sorry you're down. I am not loving cycle 5, but on the upside the year is nearly done, and we can look forwards. Hope you feel a bit better today.

nix ((hugs)) my lovely, brown disharge not lovely, but try not to worry, just get down to EPU, bypassing the doctor, if anything changes. So difficult to do, but I demand of you not to worry! Are you feeling a bit better, ill wise? Ds is curled up on the sofa now with a bowl to be sick in, what is it about Christmas-time and Illness?

izz yey for your 2ww! That'll take you up to new year, hey? Got a good feeling for a new year bean for you.

wombat you seem happy. That's good.

I have spent most of this period drinking, and imagine it will continue till new year! I am going to knock it on the head completely in January, at least for 3 months, and see how it goes. Detox, here I come!

Is everyone else well? What do you all want/ getting for xmas? (apart from the obvious )

Pink, Pink, Pinkety, Pink I'm doing a small wriggle of excitement for you and the rest of the 'Am I? Aren't I?' faint-liners. Gawwwd, how exciting in the run up to Christmas. What a nice present that would be.

What I need for my present is some action in the bedroom - CD12 here and it's like DH & I live on separate planets. I've been working late most nights and he's managed to get addicted to a new PC game. ARARRRRRRGH this is NOT conducive to relaxed, chilled, what will be, will be approach to TTC. The assumption that you shag when you feel like is that both of you will actually feel like it occasionally. Sheesh. Right. Am going to have to tap him on the shoulder and make sure I cross off everything on my Big List today

HongKong phooey. Sorry you can slap me. Take time to feel down, and give yourself some treats. It'll be better in a few days but it's rubbish at the moment isn't it.

Izzy well done on making it to the TWW with some sense of relationship still intact, sounds like it was a close thing though. Did you go for it every night or every second? I'm tempted to try to get him to agree to every night for next 4, but think that might be counterproductive.

Right straw poll ladies. I normally OV day 14 or day 15. Am not using CBFM this month, so just have to go on stats.
Am day 12 today. Mornings are not so good for us now, as DS gets out of bed and comes to say hello. What would you recommend as the the best combination of best chance and not freaking DH out with 'every night' demands?

Velvet sorry lady I missed you'd been got this round too. I fully expect to be joining you with the '2011' is definitely going to be better thoughts. You too MamaC, why are you lurking, have I missed something?

Nix I really hope it's all fine for you. Was it you with friable cervix?

how are you?

Glad you're getting some reassurance Nix. I think those Digi tests can be quite accurate. Certainly before my MC when I thought there was something wrong but before I had any bleeding, I took one and it seemed quite accurate (in my case it showed me that I had lower levels of HCG than I should have done) so getting a 3+ is good news (I was 7 wks and the test said 1-2 :(.

Ok so I forgot I had 2 cb Digi pg tests upstais. Have just peed and it's saying pregnant 3+ which puts me at the Max for those tests but at least it's gone up! Ok it only shows 5+ weeks and I am 7+ tomorrow but it's reassuring!!

Pink did I miss that you got a faint line??
A bfp line???