Join The First Time Frolickers, trying to conceive their first child. Plenty of moral support, fun, dietary advice and most importantly, BFPs!!

Fabulous news Zippys!

[creeps in]

Zippys I'm so so happy for you and I'm wishing you a lovely, boring pregnancy.

[sprinkles baby dust and hands around millionaire's shortbread then creeps back out again]

Hello ladies, just wanted to pop my head in and give you my good news, we got our BFP just over a week ago from ICSI (after being told odds of sucess low), had my fist scan this morning and we got to see little beans heartbeat. After three year and our m/c I cant tell you the emotions when we saw that little flicker on the screen. Its still early days (6 weeks today) but trying to stay positive . Still on lots of injections to try to prevent m/c but worth the pain a million times over.

Sorry for no personals but just wanted to let anyone who is struggling right now the hope it can happen it just takes a while for some of us.

Hello again all. I think I'm ready to properly rejoin the thread now. It's been about 7 weeks since I had my miscarriage. Unfortunately it's still a little raw now and again but I'm getting there. For newbies, me and DH had been trying since Dec 2011 and got pregnant in March this year. I went for a private early scan at 9 weeks but the foetus had stopped growing at 5 weeks. Missed miscarriage. I lost it a week or so later. Just finished my first period since the mc so ready to roll (in the bed) again. Will have a read of what everyone has been up to now xx

Hey everyone. Fate has it in for me, I think. I've spent the last week trying not to get my hopes up as my period has got later and later in appearing. Today, of course, it is a whole week late and the day I'd decided to do my first pregnancy test for years. So, today is cycle day one, meaning my period has started on both mother's day AND father's day this year. Fuck my life

I work in horse racing, not on the stud anymore, but yeah it's what they do. Most normal horse breeders dont go to the same lengths! It's a business after all and many of the popular stallions have to fit over 100 mares in during the season (Feb to June), so they need to make sure the mares are sent at exactly the right time so that there are no wasted opportunities.

Honestly, those maresget better attention and monitoring than we women do!

Enjoy the wedding, and fingers crossed the weather is good!

I'm doing better thanks raspberry. Met up with my pregnant best friend for lunch yesterday and told her. She was great and we actually had a bit of a laugh about the follicle tracking. We do the same thing for the mares when we try to get them in foal: scan for follicles, when one is big enough give a quick shot of LH to trigger ovulation, then send her to the stallion!

DH will be thrilled to be referred to as the stallion

Oh raspberry, how romantic

Massive congrats Amazeballs/BeanDunne!

Welcome Ronia, don't worry too much about what other people have been through, it's all about you now.

It is very quiet around here these days, I think the new TTC 1st baby thread has nicked a few potential newbies for us!

Well, in my world it is CD32 and I still haven't ovulated. I've spoken to the clinic who have said that they're not happy with my progress on Clomid. It's obviously not working for me as my ovulation has not been regular. I've got to wait till my appointment with the consultant on 10th July to see what they plan to do next, though follicle tracking seems to be the next step. I'll be honest, I had a huge bit of a cry about it all and ended up telling my boss I felt ill and needed to go home. I've spent all afternoon on the sofa either sleeping or eating chocolate.

Anyway, I'm trying to put my positive head on and keep reminding myself that every step I take brings me closer to a baby, but 2 years down the line it's hard

Hi folks

New here too. Am 35, married almost a year, and just coming off the pill to start TTC.

Have NO idea what to do/expect but will wait for body to settle down a bit after coming of Cerazette. Bit nervous as lots of friends/family my age having some problems conceiving but I guess I won't worry yet and will just see what happens!

Have invested in What to Expect Before You're Expecting to get the skinny on vitamins, diet etc. to get my body ready.

Nice to meet you all.
x

Amazeballs here :) just dropped in to say hello and let you all know i got my BFP 2 days ago. I know i haven't posted here in a while sorry.

Sending all you wonderful ladies baby dust xxxx

Thanks for listening to my moans and whinges

Thanks raspberry, I'm still in two minds what to do, DH is happy to have one kiddie in the flat, but I'm concerned we'll never get the money together for the deposit or get the mortgage once I'm on maternity leave. I've thought about having the hormone test, caz then I'd know more about the status of my fertility....? Any comments welcome :) xxx

Hi everyone,
Thought I'd say hi! I'm new too so apols for not knowing the lingo lol!

My story? Well, I'm 33, been married 5 years, no children yet caz we've lots of relationship, family and financial problems...and still only living in a small 2 bed flat.., so my sensible hat says we should wait till we can afford to buy a house (and get a mortgage on 2 incomes), but so many people around me are having babies (Inc SIL) and its getting harder to show my level of excitement for people, knowing we're still not in the right place for it..I guess I'm getting anxious caz of my age, its on my mind a lot. We are saving for a deposit but I'm getting impatient, I can't talk about it too much with DH caz he's starting to feel pressure...any reassurance welcome please xxxx

Hi can I join? Was here for a while before but had a difficult year last year and stopped ttc.
This year we're having a fresh start, so for the last couple of months have just been relaxing and having fun. Nothing has happened yet but haven't been seriously dtd every other day or anything, just when we feel like it.
Can you lovely people remind me what I ought to be doing as far as supplements, diet etc. goes?
I have some OV sticks I'm thinking of using this cycle just out of interest because I have a long cycle, usually 33-36 days, and I want to know when I'm ov'ing and whether my luteal phase etc. is normal. I've had blood tests due to my long cycles before and they were all fine so I guess it's just one of those things!