No period and no BFP.

Damn - period arrived Tues. Although given the way that work suddenly exploded this week, that was almost a relief - yes, I want a baby but a small niggling bit of me keeps on remembering that I love my career too and the two aren't hugely compatible! Oh well, seeing DH again in August, will try again then... Going to be philosophical about this, if it's meant to be then it'll happen.

Sorry Icompletely... just read your original post. Baby brain? Is that another symptom I have :o . Are your cycles pretty regular?

Thanks ladie s for your support. I agree very frustrating. I went docs today but she was very unhelpful. Just thought my stomach cramps were due to not having a proper period this month. Worse things all my cycle dates are out the window so I have no idea when I should be ovulating or expecting a period.

Icompletely... how many days are you late? maybe the baby making stress has delayed AF.

Still actually obsessing. My periods are weird nowadays.

KFF?

I'm with you both on the relaxing vs obsessing - and am working late tomorrow so will be MN-free as well, and WILL NOT start reading stuff when I get home at 1am. I will not. I will not... Look forward to hearing updates on Wed though - fingers crossed for you KF.

Good luck KFF. I hear you about this super relaxed business -- in fact I think I will have a MN-free day tomorrow, get lots of work done, and try to be a lot less obsessed by the idea of BABIES. Will be interested to hear how it goes on Wed though.

Well I have been having bad stomach cramps/backaches since saturday so I have made a GP appointment. Its so hard to get a GP appointment so I have to wait til wednesday:( I did another urine test at the sexual health clinic today nut got a BFN. The irony is if I can't take the stomach cramps and backache how on earth could I manage the birth. I probably am not pregnant because im sure it would have come up on the urine test but the nurse assured me today that sometimes it does not come up on urine tests. If i do a blood test and its negative im going to be super relaxed about ttc because its doing my head in. If it happens it happens but its hard when you see little babies everywhere you just get broody. :)

Isn't the internet great - you can fuel any obsession/paranoia so easily! Just googled "uterus lining pregnancy" and discovered that it can cause problems for implantation if it's too thick. So we're clearly fine with our light periods :) Not reading any more websites now I've found an answer that I like!

Oh damn, I'm burning the dinner... Less internet, more cooking!

WW, keep talking please, I'm finding you reassuring. Someone on another thread wrote sth the other day about the lining of the uterus apparently only growing thick enough to support a pregnancy during about 75% of cycles, which I immediately interpreted to mean that light periods (esp. if unexpectedly light like mine) couldn't possibly be a good sign. Disconcerting is the word! I'm willing you a bfp -- a baby for you and a good omen for me!

I'm enjoying this little thread -- lots of the ttc ones are so busy you just get lost.

Splinters, you sound v similar to me - I came off the pill (Cilest) after 16 years, dreading the 8 days of agony and massive heavy bleeding that my very irregular periods used to be (hence why I'd been on the pill for so long) only to find they were now on a regular 30-31 day cycle, painless, lasted 3 days and disconcertingly light even on the heaviest day. Some of my friends tell me this is actually normal and you shouldn't be written off for 5 days per month, so maybe things just improve with age (I'm 35). Or maybe we're all buggered :(

GuineaPigs, I ovulated either 9th or 12th - both days had what could be construed as positive results on the opk, but we were SWI every night 9th-13th (and twice on the 11th!) just in case. Have a 2 pack of ClearBlue digital awaiting me but they're £12 at Waitrose so I don't want to waste them. And also scared of testing too early, telling my boss (we are automatically medically downgraded in my job as soon as pregnancy is "diagnosed"(!) - no waiting till the 12 week point to tell anyone) then having a chemical or early mc which everyone will then have to know about too...

Yes, I'm definitely of the "if anything can go wrong I'll obsess about the possibility of it endlessly, no matter how remote the chances" mentality!

Haha, isn't this board all about mucus in one form or another? Certainly not the place for anyone with tmi-related scruples IMO! In answer to your q, Pigs, I haven't been doing any kind of monitoring other than noticing CM. We've only been trying since mid-April, and it's so supposed to be happening in an incredibly relaxed JS kind of way.

WeatherWitch, you could very well be right about being abroad messing with my cycles (it was a pretty hardcore three months as well) but the problem is, almost all the trips I've been on like that have been during the 6 1/2 years I was taking the pill, so I have nothing to compare it with and, tbh, not all that clear a memory of what my cycles were like before. Though I definitely had much heavier and more painful periods. Then I went on Cerazette and only had occasional spotting, which suited me supremely well, UNTIL NOW!

Now I want my old, pre-pill cycle back! QTP, sounds like just the experience I've had this cycle -- except the 'period' I'm now finally having is a bit of a joke too. Heavier than spotting, but hardly heavy enough to seem like a real period. Maybe I've buggered my body up for good!

WW KFF and Pigs, we await further updates!

Hi ladies. TTC is driving me a little crazy. Had spotting on 7th May was due period on 10th May. Since friday I have had lower back aches and stomach cramps. Also, I have sore nipples and have a funny taste in my mouth. BUT I tested negative today. So confused. Good luck all with ttc.

Yes, we've technically been ttc for 14 months now - but we're both military, so the actual number of times DH and I and ovulation have been in the same place at the same time is about 4! But after some dedicated efforts in that direction last week, I'm sitting here with v tender and swollen breasts and mild cramps and being alternately tearful and snappy, and I never normally get PMT. Testing Thurs. Or maybe Wed. Or Tues. Or perhaps tomorrow... ;)

Not sure I have much useful to add either, but just needed the company of people who might not think I'm insane for obsessing over breast tenderness, cervical position, mucus (tmi?), the slightest twinge from the abdominal region etc etc etc... Splinters, whenever I've been working overseas it's messed my cycles up to some degree - could it be that rather than random pill-taking?

Well if you want to get things moving I can highly recommend posting that your period is not coming and you're halfway through the cycle already. Because lo, here it is.. And since I had 3bfns and no symptoms at all, I'm ok with that (obv it would have been nice to have been halfway through a cycle by now, but still).

I'd love an explanation of what's been going on in my body every day of the last six weeks, though I suspect it has something to do with my messing around with my pill in a way that I now regret. I was out if the country for work and dh was at home on his own for the first three months of the year, and as we'd been talking about ttc when I got back, I stopped taking the pill while I was away. Had been on Cerazette for 6 years with hardly any periods at all. But both times I came home (for a weekend in March and then for good last month) I took about a week's worth of pills because it didn't seem ideal to have anything to happen straight away. Amazing what a good job school does of convincing you that if you make one false move you'll be pregnant before you can blink!

And now of course I do want to be pregnant, and I want it to happen immediately, and I'm worried I've messed up my cycles forever and doomed myself to years of never getting pg and never knowing what the hell's going on..

Am appreciating your company. How are you all getting on? Hi, Fiwee! I myself am not in a position to give any advice about anything mostly here to vent but welcome! Pigs, how are you getting on?