Just MC and ready to try again? Pack your leathers, black nail polish, air guitar and jump in the mosh pit for some serious metalling. All welcome! (Part 18)

just read that back and i had quite a little conversation with myself there!!

ooo and i have just noticed these

wow pebs i can remember when you were all because you had to wait until christmas to TTC again - and here it is!!

IQ hoping your MW is a tad more sensitive, sounds like the GP has knocked you all over the place. oh and [nudge nudge wink wink] on the old 'catching up with DH'

baby hoping your scan went well, will check later for some good news!

blue at your bloody employer, however as an aside are there any cupcakes left?

waves to everyone else and welcome back jaffas i do remember you and welcome you back in to the fold (i was an interloper too and have just returned)

was at my parents on Friday and Saturday so was feeling a tad frazzled when we returned on Saturday. My parents are fine but i have a toxic sister who likes to stir things up a bit so was trying to ignore her whilst having a lovely time with my family

CD24 and 11DPO and not testing till Saturday. Definitely not as my parents are up on Friday for the night and if i do get a BFP i cant face telling her again after her fucking-useless-support slightly tactless comments in August (apparantly a MMC at 5 weeks is 'just a late period dear' )

So yeah i will not do a test, see if i am PG then i wouldnt drink on Friday night and she would guess anyway, so at least this way i will be clueless and just have a couple of glasses of redvino

However if AF comes before then i shall just get hammered! actually no i wont as i always get belligerent with her when i am hammered

bloody hell IQ. hope the midwife is more understanding. that doctor sounds like a dick!

not much happening with me. i haven't even been doing my charting this cycle. i keep seeing my thermometer as i am dashing out to work and realise i have forgotten to do it. must try to get back in the habit.

this time next month i will be ttc - woo hoo!! i actually can't wait to be pg again. that is a massive turn around as i said i am never doing it again after last time! just got everything crossed that it works out next time. not sure if i could face it going wrong again. just hope the treatment plan works.

hope everything is ok at the scan baby. got my fingers crossed for you.

Oh no IQ that sounds horrible , I hope that the midwife is more helpful and that you feel much better soon!

Hi ladies - sorry I've been AWOL - had much catching up to do with DH !!!

Really can't name check as too much seems to have gone on but welcome back to our rejoiner (I don't think thats a word but I'm going to use it anyway), sorry the AF has got some of you but chin up for a Xmas TTC and festive baby making. really hoping baby is ok and just keeping my fingers crossed that she has some wonderful news!!

Feeling like a bag of hell at the moment - went in for my 25 week Dr's appointment and she has pushed all my insides around and now I feel really off colour. I explained before she started that I had a hernia but she looked at me like "so what". I explained that I had unbelievable pain when the baby moves against the hernia and she said maybe I was just "sensitive"......basically that I was being a wimp and needed to suck it up. I then explained that if lots of my intestine comes through the hole I feel really unwell when I push it back in - I get hot flush, nausea, feel like I'm going to black out. She said that "these types of things are perfectly normal and most women manage to cope with them and don't have any real symptoms from their hernias during pregnancy. I felt really small when she said that, like I was making it all up. I didn't bother to say anymore as she didn't seem to give a crap and just let her finish what she was doing, luckily all seems fine with the baby. Within 5 mins of leaving the surgery I nearly collapsed. I felt sick, blurry vision, tummy felt like it was on fire and just wanted DH to bash me over the head to make it stop. I still feel unwell, my stomach is really sore and uncomfortable. I'm off to see the midwife in a minute as im sure this isn't normal and want a second opinion!!!

Sorry for returning with a huge rant but no one else would understand why the Dr's treatment would make me feel so unhappy.

Love to all and hopefully will have something better to report later!! Xxxx

oooh blue mince pie please - haven't had one yet this year.....

baby I woke up thinking...'ooh, is it the 5th today, that means baby has her scan today' so you're definitely on my mind and looking forward to hearing back from you later...hang in there!!!

wellies sorry about AF here's to a great New Year's bfp though!!

manda take it easy with the cold...obviously DF will have had it much worse than you will since he will have had the man version but hope you get some good TLC from him anyway!!

missscarlett when TTC it's very very difficult for anything but POASing and possible results to be in your mind during the 2ww...how we all hate the waiting!!

poppy to tree and decorations and overactive DS!! We put our tree up yesterday and I was trying to work out whether beany will be old enough to be crawling next Christmas and therefore whether we have one more 'child-unfriendly' year of decorations left or whether we will need to revise decoration plans for next year...beany will be 6-7months by then so we may be ok (said confidently that all will continue to go well with this pregnancy!!)

I also did some Christmas baking at the weekend to pop in the freezer to ease the cooking load later on, but saved a few goodies for you lovely ladies so please help yourself for a morning snack with a warming

Argh! In horrid frame of mind and can't stop worrying! DH thinks, though he didn't say in so many words, am being OTT. I am not, I'm just scared!
Leaving at 10 and will repprt as soon as I can.
Blimey, this is HORRIBLE! But I also guess its normal, unfortunately. It seems all the more scary as we've had an earlier scan, and am hoping like mad that bodes incredibly well. Thanks for the support ladies xxx

Good luck tomorrow baby. Hope all is well. Also hope they don't keep you waiting in waiting room.
Sorry about AF wellies.

Thanks both of you :)

My fertile days should fall mid December so maybe I'll be testing on new year's eve or on new year's day next time round, which'd be nice :) Not such a boozy Christmas though as I'll be fearful of doing Wrong Things during the 2WW but since DH rarely drinks I'll be in good company.

missscarlett It feels like it is CONSTANTLY on your mind, doesn't it?! So distracting.

Manda duvet and hot drinks all round, poor you

I'm sorry, wellies. Here's to a boozy Christmas though.

I'm trying not to be preoccupied by waiting for AF but I'm thinking about it far too much and I'm only 7DPO

I actually have hope because I really don't want to do early pregnancy and Christmas AT ALL. So it's sod's law isn't it.

So sorry, wellies - If you have a somewhat regular cycle you can try on those few days between christmas and new year when most people lay off the booze a little Good luck this cycle.

poppy Told you! Good luck to you too.

baby I have everything crossed that you'll be reporting wonderful news tomorrow. Hang in there - it's bloody hard.

As for me, I'm getting the stinking man flu cold the DF has had these last couple of days. Great. More paranoia for me that my temp will spike and Bad Things will ensue... But at least I'm in the second tri properly so baby might have a better chance even if it does happen.

baby good luck tomorrow x

AF arrived today. Humph. Bah humbug with a Christmas hat on. Still, it explains my horrid mood.

baby I'll be thinking of you tomorrow

Quick post to say hello again to JaffaSnaffle. Glad to hear you are back in the saddle, so to speak.

Have scan at 11.10 tomorrow and so far am mainly nervous but also excited, which is a good thing. IF I let myself think about it too much I get a bit panicky so am keeping myself VERY busy to keep any nasty thoughts at bay.

Roll on tomorrow...

Sorry, obviously meant "has" not "ahs" in first sentence....maybe I am a bit overwhelmed by the Christmas tree decorating too!

Hello busy weekend putting Christmas tree up (yes it ahs taken all weekend....) I think it has all been slightly overwhelming for DS, he was so excited by having the (undecorated) tree in the house last night he was running round it in circles shouting "tee tee tee" at the top of his voice. You can all imagine what it has been like today when we stared to put the lights and decorations on

Hope you are all having lovely weekends!

The Metformin side effects seem to have got a whole lot better for me now, I would say I am feeling pretty much back to normal aside from a sort of washed out tired feeling so hooray for that long may it continue (until morning sickness takes over where it left off of course...)

Fertility Friend has unceremoniously removed my red lines so no ovulation for me yet, hopeful it will happen over the next few days - consultant reckoned around CD20. I am CD16 today so fingers crossed!

Fallen off my active convos... awful quiet in here. I hope that means good things for everyone!

Thanks for the reassurance, lovely ladies x

Funnily enough, poppy, fertility friend had me bouncing back and forth between cd10 and cd14 this month, and it finally settled on cd14. Of course by then we'd given ourselves a rest eased off the swi a bit, thinking I'd ovulated already! Hence the bfn, probably. Grrr.

Welcome back TWW Jaffa

Wellies It is early and I know you're not feeling it, but there have been a few of us here who didn't feel it either but still got bfps! Fingers crossed for you but it would also be nice to be able to indulge over the festive period ah, pate. And champers

poppy Coincidentally, I just looked at your chart and was coming here to say I'm not sure you actually O'd yet. You had exactly the same temp on cd13 last month! But yes, a few more days needed to get a better idea and so keep up the SWI!

Hi jaffasnaffle welcome back :)

blue a cupcake would go down very nicely indeed thank you very much!

wellies I am sorry about bfn, but you know 11dpo is early etc etc. doesn't make it any easier though does it... :(

Well in bizarre turn of events fertility friend reckons I am 3dpo today at cd14 (meaning ovulation at cd11 wtf) I am not convinced. We'll see how the next few days pan out! Not sure metformin is that much of a miracle drug!

Feeling pretty good today, side effects are much better so i am actually hungry for a change. Still don't feel like cooking though so may be fish and chips for us tonight :)

Welcome back jaffasnaffle glad you're feeling more ready to TTC again

Since it's Friday I thought I'd share some of the super yummy cupcakes my friend brought into work today

aw wellies :( Fingers crossed though.

babysaurus - I understand the metalling having lost two :( I'm sure it'll be fine but I do know how useless that sentence is.