Page 35 | Let's make some May babies

louloubellamozzarella · 2011-07-23T20:12:13+00:00

The end of July is drawing near; SWI with DP hasn't been as frequent as hoped; and I've decided to err on the side of caution. So. Here's a thread for anyone else hoping to make a beautiful May 2012 baby. I am 27 and TTC #1. Been on pill for an age so unsure of cycles. Only been trying for a couple of weeks - the more I type the more I note my wild optimism!! Anyone else who knows more about this business than I do? Please come and give me some hope that a May baby might be at all possible :)

Catsycat · 02/08/2011 22:15

notnow, you kind of get a bit between your fingers and pull them apart slowly, and it stretches out (like a stretchy bogie, as loulou put it so eloquentyl!). It's usually kind of clear, like egg whites, at this point, and kind of springy! Before you get to that stage it might be a bit wetter but not so stretchy!!!!! It's all good clean fun on this thread!

Rusulka - hope it's good news for you this month!

Waves to puzzletree!

notnowImreading · 02/08/2011 21:56

Thanks for the tip re preseed - will look into that. I have a question about mucus (urgh urgh urgh - brings back memories of sex ed with Sister Eilish the science nun at school). How on earth do you know when it's stretchy? Do you hold bits of it? Is it supposed to have plasticity or more liquidness? Ooh got to go. The Hour just got exciting!

threecurrantbuns · 02/08/2011 20:57

Wow this thread has progressed and made me :) well we well and truely had swI last night before dh left for work which was the day of my smilely face on ovulation stick, were hoping to do the same again tonight but he had to go to work early before dcs went to bed ... Bloody work don't they realise they have messed up our swI schedule.

I'm glad the issue or mucus and other bodily fluids has been broached wanted to ask the same a few days ago but wimped out.

Why do two weeks until af or should I say hopefully positives preg test day seem like an age away

mildertduck · 02/08/2011 19:08

Thanks Quenelle and Catsycat - further 'investigations' concluded that it didn't belong to me. Ah well - it was exciting while it lasted.

I feel like I'm 13 all over again and have no chuffing idea about what's going on with my bod.

As an aside, does anyone else remember Naked Frisbee Family from the sex education videos aimed at about Y6 or so in the early Nineties? Husband was 1 year ahead of me at school (though south east not north west) and swears no such video was played at his school. None of my friends seem to remember it either... I swear it happened! I just always wondered what happened to the kids...

puzzletree · 02/08/2011 18:25

Rusulka sounds like you may well have an April baby in there :)
Anyway just back after having looked at the ovulation calculator --> and if my cycle is average, like I think it probably is, then the optimal days this month are when we are away at a festival, with the kids, camping. Hmm... will be interesting to see if we actually manage this....

Rusulka · 02/08/2011 18:09

Forgot to mention I'm 30 and ttc #1. :)

Rusulka · 02/08/2011 18:08

Hello all, I too want to make a May baby!

I had it all figured out and bought ovulation tests in bulk from Amazon, and then did loads of reading... turns out I was supposed to be tracking temperature and downstairs stickiness too, oh how unnecessary... bought the stuff for those too...
The thing is, I've convinced myself I'm already pregnant- one week post ovulation I had 3 days of cramps, a week and a half before I was due. That never happens... but I can't figure it out for sure because I wasn't tracking, we just got rid of our July visitors and pounced on each other for about a week solid! From my research it looks like I managed to hit my fertile days by accident.
Irritatingly I have no way of telling as I'm already ahem, well upholstered with big boobs, and I eat like a horse and and am generally crabby anyway. No way of knowing now until next Tuesday. Chewing my fingers up to the elbows now in the meantime. Argh!

puzzletree · 02/08/2011 17:43

Hello everyone, can I join?
I know Catsycat from the MC board, had a MC last month. But now AF has just arrived and we'll be TTC in earnest this month! Have two lovely sons already, and would love one more baby. Haven't joined a TTC board before so will read through all the threads and try and work out what you're all on about :)
Fingers crossed for all of us....

Catsycat · 02/08/2011 16:30

And you can get it with these internal applicators, which are supposed to be all subtle and useful, but DH and I decided (theoretically) would be good as lube-shooting weapons!!!

Quenelle · 02/08/2011 16:00

It's sperm friendly lube.

It serves the same purpose as cervical mucous when you are ovulating and makes a five minute quickie when you're both knackered and would rather be watching Torchwood much easier

notnowImreading · 02/08/2011 15:56

What's preseed? A friend of mine (one of the many cowbags who's already up the duff) but didn't explain. Is it a tablet?

Muckyhighchair · 02/08/2011 14:35

Can I join in too?

NotNowImReading (34) TTC%231, AF due 3rd Aug
MammaInTheMaking(26) TTC %231 AF due (but very much not welcome) 4th August
Catsycat 38 (Joining Quenelle in an eek!) ttc #3 AF due 13th August (ish??)
Threecurranntbuns TTC#4 AF due 14th August ish
AstroNess 28 TTC #1 AF due 19th Aug ish
Festiemum 37 TTC #4 AF due 18th August
Mildertduck 28 TTC #1 AF due 20th August (ish)
Orangehead (33) TTC #3 AF due 24th Aug
Pillow (28) TTC #1 AF due 24th Aug
Buggerlugs82 (28) TTC#1 AF due 26th Aug (ish)
Cosmic Mouse (28) TTC#2 AF due 26th Aug ish
Kveta 29 TTC #2 (DC1 Sep 09) AF due around end of aug, depending on what cycle is up to grin
Lindsell29 ttc#2 no idea on AF as never have it when on pill! grin
Louloubella 27 TTC #1 AF due ?? (soon pleeease
JoInScotland 38 TTC #2 (DS Jan 10) AF due ??
Quenelle 42 (eek!) TTC #2 (DS Jun 09) AF due 29 Aug
MuckyHighChair (24) TTC #2 AF due 31 Aug

Original poster

louloubellamozzarella · 02/08/2011 14:22

Just popping my head in to echo Catsy - the male product should be more runny than the EWCM... it should be pretty stretchy - like a really stretchy bogie (or indeed, egg white).

I'll leave you with that thought, laters!

OP posts:

Catsycat · 02/08/2011 14:06

Hi SleepyCaz. Sorry to hear you've had 2 mc. I'm also trying for DC3, had one mc at the end of June :(

I'm liking Quenelle's rules!

mildert - I know what you mean about the... fluid! But IME the male "product" doesn't have the stretchy properties of EWCM, so guessing if you have clear and stretchy it's yours!!!!!!!

Quenelle · 02/08/2011 13:43

Hi SleepyCaz sorry to hear about your MC. The rules are there are no rules. Or something.

mildertduck I would probably assume that not all of that (ahem) fluid was mine

SleepyCaz · 02/08/2011 13:39

Can I join?

Desp hoping for a May 2012 baby. Have 2 DC and have been TTC DC3 since July 2010. Had 2 MC since then.

Are there any rules on here :)

mildertduck · 02/08/2011 13:33

Right, I've decided through a very scientific method (based on eenie meenie etc) that Aunty should visit on the 20th.

I have a really embarrassing question, so here goes: we did the deed last night (not necessarily with intent; just for fun). This afternoon I think I may have the beginnings of EWCM but, er, how can I be sure that said fluid belongs to me? I can't believe I'm having to ask this. Imagine me looking very embarrassed.

The list so far, then:

NotNowImReading (34) TTC%231, AF due 3rd Aug
MammaInTheMaking(26) TTC %231 AF due (but very much not welcome) 4th August
Catsycat 38 (Joining Quenelle in an eek!) ttc #3 AF due 13th August (ish??)
Threecurranntbuns TTC#4 AF due 14th August ish
AstroNess 28 TTC #1 AF due 19th Aug ish
Festiemum 37 TTC #4 AF due 18th August
Mildertduck 28 TTC #1 AF due 20th August (ish)
Orangehead (33) TTC #3 AF due 24th Aug
Pillow (28) TTC #1 AF due 24th Aug
Buggerlugs82 (28) TTC#1 AF due 26th Aug (ish)
Cosmic Mouse (28) TTC#2 AF due 26th Aug ish
Kveta 29 TTC #2 (DC1 Sep 09) AF due around end of aug, depending on what cycle is up to grin
Lindsell29 ttc#2 no idea on AF as never have it when on pill! grin
Louloubella 27 TTC #1 AF due ?? (soon pleeease
JoInScotland 38 TTC #2 (DS Jan 10) AF due ??
Quenelle 42 (eek!) TTC #2 (DS Jun 09) AF due 29 Aug

Quenelle · 02/08/2011 13:26

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Quenelle · 02/08/2011 12:54

Perhaps you should sit at the front of the bus buggerlugs.

I obviously will have to be one of the misbehaving ones at the back.

Kveta · 02/08/2011 12:53

ach, it doesn't matter buggerlugs. my last period was 19th July, but because my cycle is all over the place at the mo, I think it's next due on August 27th/8th, so it is possible that it will revert to a normal length and actually be due before then. But who cares.

1st babies are often late anyway :o

I don't want an april baby though! I have a v. important (to me) conference at the beginning of April that I must go to - can't really go if I'm due any minute! however, an early may due date would be acceptible :o

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Catsycat · 02/08/2011 11:28

Thanks Quenelle. Will have to see when I do ovulate - hoping it will be more than 10 days before AF! Might go and badger my GP tomorrow anyway. Worried I go to see him too much, as DD1 was singing a song about him the other day "Dr came for lunch, came for lunch, came for lunch"..... Very odd!

Quenelle · 02/08/2011 11:25

Hi Catsycat No experience but I read this on the MN Conception page:

* Implantation

Sometimes fertilisation takes place but the egg doesn't implant securely in the womb lining and is lost in the next period. This can be linked to the length of your luteal phase.

"It is better to have a long luteal phase. If it's less than 10 days, that may not be enough time for the egg to implant in your uterus. 12-14 days is the norm, and anything 11 days or over should be absolutely fine." Wavedancer

Quenelle · 02/08/2011 11:21

Hi everyone. Welcome and good luck to all the new joiners

Sounds like there's been some decent SWIing and gusset examining going on this weekend. Astroness I had to read your post twice. It took me a minute to work out you needed the battery for MNing, not SWIing

Well I guess I slip to the bottom of the table now because CD1 eventually arrived yesterday after a weekend of hideous PMT. Next CD1 will be 29th August, based on 28ish day cycle. Does that still put me in the running for a May baby?

I started on the Boots Conception Support yesterday. Will get the grapefruit juice in and order my Preseed today and start the limbering up exercises ready for Operation KUMQUAT to commence on Sunday or Monday.

I added you at the top NotNow, although hopefully those are pg symptoms you're experiencing, not PMT.

NotNowImReading (34) TTC%231, AF due 3rd Aug
MammaInTheMaking(26) TTC %231 AF due (but very much not welcome) 4th August
Catsycat 38 (Joining Quenelle in an eek!) ttc #3 AF due 13th August (ish??)
Threecurranntbuns TTC#4 AF due 14th August ish
AstroNess 28 TTC #1 AF due 19th Aug ish
Festiemum 37 TTC #4 AF due 18th August
Orangehead (33) TTC #3 AF due 24th Aug
Pillow (28) TTC #1 AF due 24th Aug
Buggerlugs82 (28) TTC#1 AF due 26th Aug (ish)
Cosmic Mouse (28) TTC#2 AF due 26th Aug ish
Kveta 29 TTC #2 (DC1 Sep 09) AF due around end of aug, depending on what cycle is up to grin
Lindsell29 ttc#2 no idea on AF as never have it when on pill! grin
Louloubella 27 TTC #1 AF due ?? (soon pleeease
JoInScotland 38 TTC #2 (DS Jan 10) AF due ??
Quenelle 42 (eek!) TTC #2 (DS Jun 09) AF due 29 Aug

JoInScotland I put you before me but feel free to move yourself according to length of cycle. Phew! It's a full time job administrating this thread isn't it!