We are all jolly well going to smack the rat this month and grow a baby and we'll brook no argument. And probably eat some cake too.

Last post was for Cupcakes.

Scrambled - good luck, hope you find a better job soon.

Popcorn - does sound v odd. Could it be a bit of candida (but usually porridgey). Or else you haven't been having enough of the old in-out? Infections usually give you thick mucus not watery...

At 6dpo I can usually report very little CM and thicker than midmonth. I used to suffer with weird CM when I wasn't very well and did a big clean-up re' diet/caffeine/booze. Do you eat a lot of carbs/sugar. (Sorry Cod Doc Bean does get carried away sometimes...)

Cupcakes I'd say you should try and DTD tonight. Otherwise you might feel disappointed if in 2 weeks you don't get a BFP. I hate regretting something like that, makes AF so much worse.

As far as I know you should DTD 24-36 hours after the positive OPK, so try and work out if you can fit anything in in that time, perhaps a quick morning DTD before work?

SMACK! SMACK! SMACK! [a la Harry Hill]

Or try to DTD early am tomorrow?

Bear in mind last night's spermies should last at least 2 days...

IKWYM about making decisions. Still prevaricating about tests....

No it's not thick at all cupcakes it's like water, with a teensy tiny bit of EW on the odd occasion. When I temp fanjolly in the morning it's literally running down my hand (sorry, waaaaaay tmi ) which is very unusual. Maybe I have a fanjo infection?

End of tether, Cupcakes. I hate my job, need to find something nearer to where I live but haven't got the time to do so. In my industry a short career break won't hurt too much, and whatever job I get I won't earn any less than I do now.

Smegs I'm a whopping 5dpo, which is too soon for symptoms anyway :o

Wha-? Having to make up time you're off sick? That's not right

Have just read the last part of your post Pop it's very confusing I agree. Is it any thicker than usual? I have seen on 2ww website people mentioning excessive (often thick or yellowy) CM before getting a BFP. when is AF due?

Boo to AF Far but yay to India and a Xmas BFP!! is it this weekend you go away?

Thanks for the encouragement everyone, I really should stop procrastinating & get on with work!

Scrambled have I missed something? Have you got another job? Or are you just at the end of your tether? If your sick you shouldn't have to make that time up. That's not fair.

Right I need some rat smacking advice we have so far DTD on fri, sat and last night. I've just got a positive OPK (my first ever real one-it come up within seconds) now I was not going to smack that rat tonight in order to give the swimmers time to regroup. However due to working late tomorrow might not be able to do it again until thurs. What do you think? Should I smack the rat tonight?!

I am utterly incapable of making my own decisions

Major congratulations to me please. I have sourced an aero and am now drinking my tea while watching one born every minute. It's like my guilty secret whenever I'm poorly, I watch obem re-runs and mybirth.tv :) How sad am I but really I need to decide what behaviours get on my nerves so I know not to do it when I give birth.. I am going to be silent and of a cheerful disposition at all times while in labour. Bed of roses and NO drugs and all done in no longer than 5 hours :)

far a baby conceived in india would be amazing. If it's a girl you could call her India!

scrambled hope you feel better soon! Being poorly is so rubbish without the pressure of work being awkward. I've always been very lucky with employers who are very 'go home and get well, nothing that can't wait' kind of attitudes. in fact I said to my boss yesterday that I had been really poorly on my day of last week she said 'well make sure you claim it back then if you were poorly' so I can take my days leave back!

lol, I just had to answer the door to the electoral register lady in a T-Shirt and pants! Poor lady but I really couldn't have run up the stairs and back down again in the time that she would have waited for me to come to the door. I think I would have died.

Um, Popcorn, how many dpo would you have been if you had ovulated at the normal time?

Haha, no whimsical! DD threw up on me yesterday, so I guess it was inevitable! You know how it is.

Oh little that's pants! I do hope you get better soon

Bean my DH is not especially romantic, and we decided to get hitched over a pint in a not very nice local pub one Sunday afternoon. The conversation went thus: DH ?shall we get married??, me ?yeah why not?? :o But in all seriousness, why not ask him? :)
You'll have to post photos of the Dennis jumper, it sounds cool! I am knitting socks at the moment.

I actually always thought it was moles that got wacked more regional differences perhaps though I did live in the US for a while

raspberry DH has a tash and beardy bit already, and has done since we met 12-ish years ago. He shaved it off once and I cried, and I have never lived it down

Gosh cupcakes 2 hours a week is nothing. I was doing an OU diploma and I'd spend aaaaaaall weekend doing ?the sodding thing-- it. And on top of work too, you should be so proud of yourself just doing it all!

Sorry to hear AF got you, far - but I'm sure this'll be the last time, now you know about the injections. I rather hope expect I'll end up with a xmas baby too, as the thought of my longed-for DC being ever being thought of as a ?christmas accident? makes me so irrationally angry I turn pink at the thought of it

Getting well fudged off at the excessive water CM, ladies. If I was sure I had OV'd I might think it was a pg symptom, as it's quite unusual for me, but maybe it's just symptomatic of an anovulatory cycle. As it is, I feel like I'm on AF but with CM

Oh farfalla lovey. Of course you're a bit depressed, just wallow and eat chocolate today. And then enjoy your wonderful trip to India and all the beautiful memories you'll be making.

One little thing though - be careful what & where you eat! Even friends of mine from Indian families get 'Delhi Belly' when back home. It's not the main dishes, normally, it's the rice and the water it's cooked in .

Thanks bean, I'm taking your advice, although staying on the sofa with bucket as lying down is unwise at the moment. Work are being arses - I have to make up the time I've missed by coming in on my days 'off' :( Great, have to find and pay for extra childcare. Think I might hand in my notice tomorrow instead waiting till the end of the month.

Gosh raspberry and scrambled I hope you both get better soon. I came on here to catch babies not lurgies!

I hope it wasn't something someone baked?

Boo Far - that's a bummer, as they say (back in the 80s perhaps) - but next month is looking like a corker for you for all sorts of reasons. A Christmas babster coming your way. How gorgeous.

imps have you actually been googling 'smack the rat'? Love it!!

Right day one of my pregnancy today gals, even though I knew we could not possibly have nailed it this month, I am still a bit depressed about it :(

Still at least the timing is going to work for a lovely baby conceived in India, plenty of rat smacking on holiday and no excuses! And a 12/13 day LP so I am not complaining, well I am complaining but it could be worse.

DH has just asked me what I want to xmas and literally all I can think of is I want a baaayyybbbeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

at selling DD on ebay! I think I'd have SS round quicker than you can say 'bad mother'!

fire service! Such a good idea but my brother is a fireman and if he turns up he'll just moan at me for not having any cakes in and my house being a tip. Im not in the mood for any firemans lifts today either :( I must be proper ill.

X-posts with Scrambled. Get to bed and take a bucket, dear brooker.

Poor Scrambled - have been there and it's tough looking after a DC in that situation. Can you sell DD on ebay get some help for the afternoon? See you soon when you're mended.

Yes Raspberry - it's deffo a 999 job.

PS DD is at nursery. May not have been quite well enough, but there is no way I could have coped with her today.

Those fishy people are few and far between so there's probably a connection, Whimsi. He did his phd was London based. He even has a good job, doing what he trained to do now he's a grown-up.

Research/writing and knitting not likely bedfellows I can see that. But more time post phd efforts to smackarat.

Sadly I have a book full of lovely things for babies that I would like to crochet but DS is past all that (hence the Dennis the Menace jumper I'm working on now ) and... well. Just gotta get a BFP to fulfil my crochet fantasies eh?

Imps it's all got to be down to the terminology. Perhaps we could all be Splattersmackers from hence on in, thus covering all angles.

Terrier is getting excited - our furry friends must be on the move. I hope that they like eating slugs which seem to get in to the kitchen somewhere too. There's hazards that come with living in charming Victorian houses no matter how much cleaning you do, honest guv.

It IS Smack the Rat! All the dodgy fairs I've been to called it Smack the Rat. Loved Whackamole too, raspberry.

DD has kindly passed on her tummy bug to me. I feel appalling, so will probably only be checking in this once today. I also a) haven't read anything past the last 5/6 posts and b) have no energy to reply to anyone personally. So Hello! Hope you're all well and blooming. Sorry if you're not (Little & raspberry ? Anyone else?) , and I hope you get better soon.

cupcakes: None of this 'just' degree level. Don't do yourself down. 2 hours a week isn't much from work, and if everyone else is a typical undergrad, they won't have other competing priorities so can focus entirely therefore PROVING you're not a dunce. Which you clearly aren't.

raspberry have you thought of calling the fire service? It is clearly an emergency.

Ha! I'm afraid it will have to stay as SMACK the rat not SPLAT as I'm far too scared of rats to splat them. Sorry Imps

The course I'm doing is just degree level. I get two hours off work a week for it. I'm really struggling and I feel like the dunce of the class! I have to keep saying I have done a degree before you know. I'm not really this stupid!
I think the reason I'm struggling is cos it's a course about teaching & I've always done science based stuff before. I'm used to fact not waffling on about learning styles!

Raspberry have you managed to get that tea and chocolate yet?! I would be very put out at your DH, I think its perfectly reasonable for him to give up his lunch break to tend to his sick wife