The all new rat smacketers thread, this way for a 2012 BFP we are BROOKING NO ARGUMENT

I never really got socks (I always wear heels iykwim) untill I bought some angora pairs half price in next Xmas sale, now I love them lol

Is post and run btw, have a nice day!

Ah thanks Maybe. All in good time eh?

Phew - just looked on FB and all normal. My mates are too old/finished with having babies so there's no pg news. I shouldn't be happy should I?

Yes - one to add to your 'sympsum' Imps!

How are everyone's boobaloobs today?

Not wrong at all Imps, this simply means you are up the duff!!

Bean I have never tried it, I rode horses a bit when I was younger, but in very much the conventional way

A ruptured spleen? You poor thing. Yes, you are lucky to be with us, and you will be even luckier once DC number 2 comes along

Steak, mushrooms, fresh brocc and couscous with pine nuts, optional...

Back to book.

I like Maybe's supportive sidesaddle riding. Have you ever actually tried it? Really hard! I had a pony as a teenager and rode bareback, all sorts, but sidesaddle always felt really wobbily. Yikes. If I got a horse now he'd be as wide as a department store and v slow-moving. I ended up having my spleen out when I was 12 after falling off.

Is it wrong to be craving a steak at 10:52am?

Oh Imps I'm sorry if she really is on her way

You lot all say such lovely things about me. Thanks for saying you will buy my cupcakes. I really need to get my arse in gear and find out how to do all this.

Pop this is amazing news for the steak. I am so pleased. So in reality, I must already be pregnant as I had it last night. And my temp went up again this morning....

Beedle here is that link

Morning all. Busy busy. Will catch up later.

From quick squizz through, it looks like people are cheery today!

Have a good day everyone.

Aww bean that's a really nice thing to say :) A perfect pg would be lush :o

Imps I had cramping at 12dpo donchaknow, it's not too late! :o

Yes Biscuits ! Not sure when the advice changed but we can definitely have mooing steaks, as long as it's well done on the outside - Link!

Imps - we crown you Queen Smacketeer, of the most positive vibe. Cycle 8 is the one. Innit, innit, innit.

Pops I have the booklet. But it's unclear as to whether this reprogramming stick should be wet or dry. I'm assuming dry. And yes I damn well will use it again.

Loving pg = glamour. It really isn't, is it? But I did feel quite marvellous even when I was bigger than a house. I remember being 7 days overdue and waddling around Borough Market feeling like I could take on the world. Enjoy, enjoy, enjoy. But try not to go overboard on the tums if you can help it! You won't get sickness Pops - that's because you were made to WAIT for your BFP so you have won the perfect pg as a consolation.

xxxxx

PS Far - hope all's well out there.

Sweetie I am more than happy to punch that peestick of yours in the face if you want me to. How dare it mislead you like this. You are clearly and obviously pregnant and I am brooking no argument on that one.

Being preggo is all about glamour, isn't it Pops and Cakes . Hopefully the windypops will ease off soon and you can concentrate on glowing and looking fabulous and effortlessly trendy with your beautiful neat bumps :)

Maybe, you do indeed have many fantastic strings to your bow, you clever ol' thing you. You will be a fabbo mother, having all these wonderful skills to pass down to your DC. I'm okay on the cooking side of things but that's as far as it goes - craft and I do not get on, so there's no point me even trying tbh! I don't want to pass my legal skills down to DC - in fact I would prefer to tell them to avoid going into law like the plague (of course I won't, it's up to them, but it's a crap career to get into and I wish I hadn't).

Whims it all sounds like it's coming together nicely for you! My friends used a "professional" letting agency and had more problems with them than with the actual tenant. It's definitely worth going with a recommendation if you know any landlords already.

AF is deffo on her way here - spotting and cramping this morning. I'm, like, well over it already innit and focussing on the lovely beautiful cycle 8 wot's coming my way. Oooh cycle 8 you're so pretty and lovely and wonderful! So much better than all the other cycles!

Right, I'm going to sharpen my arrows, polish my bow, mount my trusty steed and go AF hunting - who's with me??

Say what popcorn - we can have rare steak??????????

I've no idea Stasi - some people are saying it won't start til 8 weeks? I like your theory much better though :o Not long til your HSG!

Olives your consultant sounds super, and well worth the extra wait.

Whims my parents rented their house out through a proper management company and it was disasterous. So I think there's a lot to be said for renting to someone you trust :)

You never know, sweetie - some people don't get implantation dips at all! I bet AF is currently running for the hills screaming :o (and I agree with Beedle's excellent advice re not looking at one temp in isolation)

Ohhh cakes my norks are mega itchy, and the wind is atrocious glad it's not just me. I'm munching my way through a packet of tums at a rate of knots.

:o scarlett I can think of worse things to overindulge in than SFF!

Minus 15 beedle ?

I love my steak rare. I am so glad you can now have it mooing when you're pregnant according to the NHS or I think I might cry :o

Have a lovely lunch cupcakes and tell us what you order so we can drool from afar :)

bean the instruction booklet can be downloaded here ? I think you use a clean one to reprogramme it, then you can reuse it later iirc.

Sweetie - you got the wrong stick. I really hope so.

T-cups with trifle in was a throwaway comment but maybe it would be rather lovely.

Yes - where's Far; she seemed to be having a v tough time so I hope she is ok?

Thanks Generic - mostly feeling positive because I feel like we have an idea of why it's taken so long to conceive (SA results). I'll try and get through next AF in + spirit. Toddler AF will be ignored! I certainly hope your AF doesn't last 5 weeks! A BFP coming your way I sense.

Advice welcome on reprogramming my new (old) CBFM. It asks for a peestick to be inserted when you turn it on to reprogramme. Do I have to pee on it (I'm thinking probably not)? So is that peestick binned after you've used it to reprogramme?

Sorry about the pee stick Sweetie but at 11dpo I'm sure you are just testing too early. I agree that cramps and sore boobs are a very good sign.

Boo to the disagreeable pee stick Sweetie give it a few more days. It's strange you only get boob ache some cycles. About a week before AF my boobs get really sore. How I didnt notice this before ttc I don't know.

I'm day 10, not ovulated yet but I'm covered in disgusting spots. I'm obviously already preggo

I'm off out for lunch with some work friends. I'm ridiculously excited obviously have no life apart from mn and work
Now I just need to pick out my most crazy outfit in order to detract attention from my spotty face!

Hope everyone is getting around ok in the ice

Oh Sweetie sorry the piss stick didn't agree with you. It is by no means over though. What did your temp do this morning? Thanks for your very kind description

Beedle go and get that sock kit, I will post a link when I get to work of an amazing site that will help you with the basics

DH managed to get me to the station today, so am on the train now. Think I will be taking it easy today. Am attempting the gym later too. I smell like an onion. I had a craving for french onion soup last night, so whipped up a batch. Looking forward to that when I get in!

The pee sticks got me this morning as expected BFN, at least I am warned for AF now. If she hasn't shown up by weekend Thursday I will test again.

It seems sore boobs is a requirement for brookers, I don't get them every cycle which makes me extra hopeful when I do.

Maybe I have sock without a doubt, you really are a very talented lady, almost Phd, Master Cupcake Baker, Dog trainer to Otis and sock aficionado rolled into one.

scarlett and stasi I'm brooking no argument that your HSGs will be fine and will be swiftly followed by a BFP each

maybe i saw a sock knitting kit in the random stuff at lidl at the weekend and nearly bought it, but whilst i can knit I don'tknow how to cast on so i didn't. Now I'm thinking i should have bought it so i can join in with the excellent craftyness on this thread.

Hope everyone gets safely to work this morning

Scarlett cross post, took me forever to write that post!! What business are you looking at starting? I really want my baking business to take off, it would be great to be my own boss

I too am having a little glass of red tonight. With a very rare steak. It's good for the blood

Evening all!

Sweetie cramps can be a good sign. How long is your LP normally?

Beedle you are making -2 look positively balmy! Hurrah for sore boobs

Thanks Generic, I am counting on you lot being my first customers

Cakes bet you can't wait for your appointment!! So exciting!

The snow is now sheet ice on the roads Sweetie and thick on the grass skating rink in the morning me thinks!

Whims I am excited by these tea cups

Sweetie the beauty of handmade socks is that they are super warm without being too thick!! I can easily get my boots on over the top. They are suitable for all purposes! I love socks. Can you tell?!

Hope you are ok too Far

Re referrals, I went to see a younger female GP and she didn't think twice about referring me, don't know if it helped that it wasn't a silly older man who thinks he knows better?

CBFM sounds like the way forward, I've decided Im going to get me one for Easter so I won't need one hopefully

maybe there is a culture at my head office of starting late and working later but I don't subscribe to that at all, I'm in early (but tbh i dontO need to be too early to beat everyone else by an hour lol) and leave on time end of. bean I'd bloody love to work for myself, I'm meeting a friend this week to start to pull together a business plan...

sweetie I'm trying to find a pup at the moment too, but struggling to find any ready at moment and thanks for booting my boss. I told him exactly what I thought of him once I'd checked he'd put the phone down

stasi I'm trying not to think about the 'straight to IVF, do not pass go, do not collect £200' possible outcome of HSG, but looks like I should only be a week behind you with the HSG, let me know how it is! My consultant said you can get cramps when they put the dye in an suggested I take some painkillers about 30 minutes before the appt, don't know if that helps...

whims have we got an extra bank holiday again this year? I love the queen oh and a word of advice although I'm sure you know already be very wary of letting your house to s friend regardless how nice they are, I let mine to my best friend, we aren't friends any more

Re boobs - mine get sorer [ is that even a word?!] every bloody cycle [oops no pun intended lol]

Oh and I've discovered this month that I am cack at abstaining... I've had a glass of wine nearly every day this cycle and our attempts to reduce SWI to every other day has failed miserably

Scuse typos am on iPod x

Not too cold here now sweetie, a relatively mild -6 today :-), it was -15 the other day. No huge snow falls either so we could have lent the snowshovels to maybe not that that would have helped if the trains weren't running

whims perhaps you could subject your fb friend to a weekly count down to your move - ooh only 20 weeks to go and so much packing to do - you could even set them so that only she sees them so you don't annoy all your other friends

sweetie i think the important thing to try to remember when you're temping is not to look at any one reading in isolation, just the general trend over 3 or 4 days. Hard to do i admit, i occasionally over-analyse my temps too.

Oh and i have mega sore boobs - just thought I'd mention it

PS where's Far? Hopefully she is being all casual and nonchalant with her DH resulting in lots of smacketeering.

Hope Munx is OK too.