We want to fall by Fall please!!!

Compo, Yes, I think that's true that sperm can live for up to three days! But I wouldn't risk it. I'll be grabbing DH every two days just to make sure!

Don't worry Puppy, I was just trying to clarify what I meant!
Sorry about BFN, Strike! It does get you down after a while. We haven't been trying for the last two months because I didn't want to be sick over Christmas (I had HG last time) But it's hard to take a break especially as it gets towards the middle of your cycle. Try not to think about it over Christmas (easy to say I know) and let us know what you decide.

Hi Andyrobo, hope you're feeling better!
Thanks Peachygirl, glad I wasn't too scary!

Hi to everyone else!

sorry to hear that Snowball

BFN this morning and I woke up in the night with bad AF pains, so although I'm not due on till tomorrow/Sunday I think there's little hope of it being a false negative. I think I might give up ttcing for a bit as well, I'm bored with the disapointment every month.

Hope the rest of you are doing well, any testers soon, we need some good news.

see i made mistakes in that post!
, it is getting late though

Oh no, I hope you weren't thinking I was saying anybody was being over sensitive in my last post , I really have no got a good way with words, I feel awful now , I hope you know what i meant.

I am thinking of taking a break from ttc just for over the xmas and new year period ( i will let you know if i do), it looks like af will be here at any time as I have had the slightest pink discharge (sorry if tmi) so its only a matter of time, before full flow begins.

Hi girlies

No jane 313 it isn'tme with the consultants appt - it must be Artoo!

I am now in the 2ww and having only managed to bd once ! (Sad I know) but I was poorly with cold and then a sore neck - thought I had pulled a muscle -but Dr said it was a severe throat infection - it was all up the back of my neck for days! Not the best of rBD'ing but we weren't trying this month as buba would be due late aug when dd starts school - sods law would be that the one little quickie on CD 18 was enough!! I will let you know - but AF expected on Xmas or Boxing Day - oh great!

Catch you all later!

Merry compo
I know what you mean, about Christmas being tricky. We are going to spend Christmas in a National Trust property with some good friends. One of them knows we might be thinking about TTC as this house has a fertility bed and I asked if we could have it (we can't) we might get several knowing looks though.

Home mama I don?t think you are being over sensitive I lurked for ages before posting and I don?t think your comment would have put me off coming on board.
I think the whole thing of TTC is very stressful.
We have our whole lives to sort out ? work, families, partners, money, houses etc etc, our own general health and then on top we are all watching our cycles and trying to do the right things at the right times all the while keeping it to ourselves. It is hard to talk about such a private thing and this is where Mumsnet is good as we can let things out ask questions and get the support we all need.

evening everyone. I'm on CD10 so am hoping to bd from today for the next 2 weeks!! Was looking at my diary for when I concieved ds and we bd on CD11 and that seemed to work even though my cucle is 40+ days. I think I remember reading that sperm lives for 3 days so if you do it every 3 days that should cover you or did i imagine that?!! It's a bit tricky round christmas because we're off to my parents this weekend and are in single very creaky beds - damn!!

Sorry if I seemed over sensitive this morning. I wouldn't want anyone who's lurking and thinking of joining for a bit of support to be put off by me.

This isn't a closed thread and the very nature of a TTC thread is that people hop on then hop off after (hopefully) short stays.

BXPE, if you're a regular on this thread then I'm sorry. It's just your name change and not revealing your regular posting name for us to congratulate you properly left me confused.

Jane313, you seem to have a lot on at the moment. Do you need to wait for tests on the lump before starting any fertility treatments? A lot of worry over Christmas for you. My m/c was earlier this year. We started trying when DS was 3mths and caught straight away but it wasn't to be.

Good luck with testing Strike! Let us know!

bxpe, please don't take offence i don't think it was intended that way, some people have been ttc for quite sometime and can get quite sensitive iykwim, I think also due to the name change it could have looked like somebody new had popped onto the thread to announce their bfp.
I am aware you prob don't want to reveal yourself yet, but keep us updated and I hope everything goes well for you.

p.s you have got me thinking who you are lol, so inpatient any hint? lol

I take it that one was directed at me. sorry if you felt I was rubbing it in - I have been posting on mumsnet since the summer, and some of you have answered my queries/chats, just as I have (maybe/hopefully) passed on advise/experience to others. I dont post several times times a day but when i can. I changed my posting name for the last couple of days.

Sorry if this upset anyone and good luck to eveyone.

Umm, Normsnockers and anyone else who I may have confused;

I posted last night to say I had started to get a bit of brown spotting and I thought it was too late to be implantation, so presumably AF was on it's way.

So congratulations are not in order just yet. Not sure if some people got me confused with BXPE who's BFP post was underneath mine.

Well, still getting a tiny bit of brownish bleeding today, just a small streak of it on loo roll when I go for a wee (sorry if TMI )
Didn't get any bleeding at all in either of my previous pregnancies so not feeling very optimistic. It's not at all similar to my normal periods, but have been on Depo for 18 months until my last one ran out at the end of July this year, so I guess my cycle is all over the place still. Oh well, I'll just have to wait until next Tues (2 weeks after I think I ovulated) to do a test.

oh and still waiting for an ultrasound to check my breast lump. Just to add to the stress!

My stats

Me 39
DH 38
DS 2.5
TTC 7 months

I just had skimmed the thread. Sorry about the afs and congrats for the bfps.

Sorry about you miscarriage homemama, was it before your ds?

And Stacey I think you are incredibly strong to have gone through all that and come through the other side.

Suss good luck with you new round of ivf. I am really impressed by what you have done. One of my friends made the decision not have ivf again after years of problems and one healthy dd. Its such a hard decison to make.

Normsnockers you can get the lh surge but that does not mean ovulation. I got smiley faces on clearblue digital for 2 months in a row but my 21 day tests showed my progesterone was too low which means I wasn't ovulating.

I have got an appointment at the fertility clinic next week. I chased it up as it was over a month of waiting. The hospital hadn't got the letter do the GP had to fax it. Then they said it would be a 4 month wait so I am paying and got an appointment next week. It makes me so sad that money makes the difference between someone having a baby or not.

Artoo was it you or andyrobo who was had a consultant appointment?

Hello to everyone else.

Have to say I did think the same thing when I logged on this morning. Though of course we don't want people to end up feeling they can't join the thread or post.

Snowballstrike-I think I did get spotty when in early pregnancy so fingers crossed.

I am getting annoyed with my ovulation predictor kit as I am on cd17 and haven't got my surge yet and was sure I would have had it by now. DH will be cream crackered if I make many more demands on him this month!

that should say,

if you havn't posted before and you have had the bfp then straight to antenatal threads is the best thing to do

my english is naff

yep homemama metallic taste is a good sign, but not getting hopes up, I have bloated and got a sore chest which i have done a week before my af for the last couple of cycles. i have spotted last night but today nothing, due on on sunday having af cramps so expecting it any time now, really feeld like i am going to start, if it is i just wish it would hurry up and do so! lol

i agree, if you hadn't posted before then straight to antenatal threads are the best, i felt awfully guilty posting and then catching on the first cycle but it previously took 3 years to catch on with ds and wasn't expecting it to be that quick, i should be going into my 2nd trimester now anyway chin up.

Hope you are all well, ds has been off nursery all week, he has had a chesty cough for well over a month so took him to drs on tues and got him some sudafed, i was going to send him to nursery this morning but when he woke up i discovered that the poor thing has only gone and got viral conjunctivitis his eye was well glued up bless him. Its the time of year for it.

I think I agree with you Norms. I'm not a very regular poster, but I'd like to think I'm around enough to be able to share my good news (if it EVER comes) But if you never post at all then the other threads might be a good place to start.

I'm trying to find things to stop me testing before tomorrow morning at the moment. AF really feels like she's about to turn up, but I might try one test tomorrow just in case. Has anyone ever gotten spotty in early pg? I got a serious break out just over a week ago, so it felt too early to be pre mentstral, and I usually get spots with af or just after. Clutching at straws I know, but I'm hoping it might be a sign.

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P.S, Puppy, isn't a metallic taste a good sign?

AF arrived today so I wasn't on CD20 at all!
TBH, as we weren't trying, I hadn't been keeping track.

Normsnockers, I've read that the LH surge detected by the OV sticks are a good indication that you're OVing but not a guarantee. It seems that the hormone doesn't always do its job and so sometimes an egg won't be released. I've also read that woman over 35 average one month in three. I'm 34 but nearly there!

Right! I'm going to be flamed for this but.....
Whilst I'm very happy for all the new posters sharing their BFPs, I'm not sure why someone would join a thread just to say they are pg. (I'm not talking about women who join and happily catch on the first month after just a few posts) This thread is full of women supporting each other through TTC and sharing each other's joy and heartache. Start a new thread if you wish to share. Looking back, I've found three posters who post to share good news without ever having posted before.

Hope everyone is well! Is anyone testing soon?

Hi Norms! just a part-time poster, but a serial lurker since the summer!
hope yours gets sorted out

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