TTC #1 Thread 7

Snpa booze I am fine with babies, fine with v preggo ladies, its the announcements which hit me like a punch in the stomach! Yay to the smiley, I'm glad I started with the OPKs this month, makes me feel calmer to know we've done all we could of . I'm relaxed, happy and feel positive, this could all change is AF arrives on New Year though. here's to lots of BFP and babies in 2013!!!!

MoC I can't explain how grumpy I was when Kate's pregnancy was announced. Based on rumours and dates I think it might be the beginning of July which is when I should have been due. Grumpy grumpy grumpy (and felt horrible about it). Weirdly, I'm okay with babies, but have an irrational reaction to pregnant women. Hmpfh.

On the plus side, got a smiley on the OPK this morning.

Just had another friend announce her pregnancy on facebook.....I really wish that was me

Thanks fl0b0t. I have such bad OV pains today I thought these were over and done with 2 days ago, altho those were cramps not pain, this actually hurts....eeek. Hope this doesn't last long.

mother we need those rants and a safe forum for them. I apol in advance for what Christmas does to me. Hormones, in laws and a baby neice (in law). I'm doomed .....

Hi katrina and mother - welcome to the fun house!!!

Sorry about the bfn flo - 2013 has gotta be our year hasn't it?!!!

Congratulations on the definite BFP love

And this weekend I enjoyed a strawberry McDonald milkshake, a mr whippy ice cream and a Chinese takeaway!!! Awesome!!!! was away with dh for the weekend, great to spend some time together without anyone else bugging us!! And some great food!!!

Ohhh is it possible to post a picture on here? I think I got a positive on my OPK but wanted to check with someone.....eek. Also - sorry in advance for way too much info! - but if we DtD Friday Morning, Saturday night, Sunday night and this morning do we think my chances are pretty good? I will make sure we BD tonight too geez I really really hope this is the month! I've been very healthy, taking all my vits, doing an exercise class a week, walking the dog each night, not stressing....oh and DtD lots lol. Fingers crossed that the swimmers do their job (ps. sorry for my rant earlier.....hanging my head in shame)

This is going to sound incredibly bitchy but I have an ex friend who just announced her pregnancy and I'm finding it a bit hard to stomach. She turned out to be such a bad friend, she used to drop me as soon as someone better came along then try to pick up as before when that person started to bore her. I decided I was better off without her but I still find it hard thinking about how she treated me.
We haven't spoken for about 6 months now, she already has a little boy aged a year and a bit. She always wanted kids but as soon as she had her son she posted on FB about how 'she was now a mum' it took another 24 hours before anyone was even told her sons name, weight etc etc, it was all about her, then for the following 6 months she did nothing but moan about how awful it was being a mum, how her life was so terrible, how her son made life so hard and how the best thing to come out of it was her fab new mummy friends.
I got in touch and tried to help as I wondered if she might have post natal depression, I even got a friend with a baby the same age to go around and see her.
She seems very happy now but I know the negative comments and status updates will start again soon, it just seems so unfair when so many of us would love to be in her shoes.
It is also worth mentioning that she has never once let me hold her son, when I first went to see them after he was born she told me that as I had a cat and he had allergies I shouldn't hold him. He was only a few days old, how can he have allergys? Then we got puppy and that sealed my fate. They did come round to us once but she freaked when the cat wandered up and sniffed his carrier and asked that we go to them in future.
I just know that if I get pregnant at the same time as her she will try to get in touch as 'we will have so much in common'. I don't want her back in my life, I think she's used me enough.
Sorry to moan but I don't really have anyone else I can share those thoughts with.

Congratulations love! And hi mother!

flo i am completely with you on the pms just compounding the grimness of af arriving, i don't remember being such a monthly miseryguts before ttc, damn you heady combination of hormones and disappointment!

Welcome mother and GREAT NEWS Love!

I'm ok all, I just wish the disappointment of not-being-pregnant didn't also come with PMS- such a cruel combination of negative feelings! Having been on the depo injection for a few years, I'd just totally forgotton what PMS felt like and have been really hormonal and tearful (even before AF actually showed up). I'm looking forwards to having a drink tomorrow night though :)

Hi
Can I join? I am 30 next year and me and my other half are TTC our first...eeek so excited.
We've been ttc since Sept, I had a hiccup in Nov as I had a shorter cycle and very light AF and confused that with implantation and then got a bit down when I got BFN on my HPT.
I have a good feeling for this month, I have OV pains today and we have BD'd the last 3 days so fingers crossed.
I'd love to have somewhere to share my slight obsessing .

Fl0, I'm so sorry. New year, new start - January will be our month!

Love congratulations! Lots of love x

So its a definate BFP!!! Ahhhhh!!! I'm ridiclously excited!! :-) :-) Booked a dr appointment for Friday! Loving the smug list!! Fx for u all to get you BFP's this month and thanks for the support last couple of days!! :-) xx

Ohh fl0 Im sorry and your boobs where looking so promising

• go get yourself a nice Mc D's Milkshake and wave it around smugly

Welcome Katrina hope you're not here for long!

Any news love Welcome Katrina

AF arrived today, so there we are. Champagne at Christmas after all....

Hi Booze, I'm so sorry to hear about your mc, hopefully this month will be your month! I do love a good symptom spot (I've somehow managed to ignore everything my body has been doing for the past 15 years but now I notice every twinge and gurgle!) so I'll be there with you! x

Hi Katrina hopefully the fertility clinic will be able to help. I'm on cycle 3 - cycle 2 ended in a mc at 6 weeks so back here again. I'm due to ov in the next few days (unless cycles are all over the place post-mc) so will be symptom spotting with vengeance over Christmas!!

Hello ladies,

New TTC-er here, well not new at TTC-ing (9 cycles so far and nary a sniff of BFP), but new to talking about TTC-ing with other lovely people going through the same bloody annoying thing!

I'm 30, DH is 37, first appt at fertility assessment clinic thing in January...

AF due in 4 days and minor cramps of doom are afoot already, so that's my little hopes of a BFP for Christmas out the window I suspect... it would be lovely to join you all for mutual support, sanity, symptom-spotting, and (if the other boards on here are much to go by) lots of swearing, which I'm wholly in favour of.

Nice to meet you all! K xx

Any news Love? Do we have a Christmas BFP?

It absolutely will be worth it although I'm absolutely gutted about McDonald's chocolate milkshake

According to my little app I'm due to ov on the 18th so have been DtD with conceive plus every day since Friday and have been using the digital OPKs every day but no smiley yet.

Good luck for tomorrow's POAS!

Fl0b0t I've been at work all weekend (argh) so not tested yet... I am going to test when i get home tonight.. Holding on to wee so it concentrates! Hahaha!! The test again in morn.. Testing with proper tests not internet cheapies so Fx!!! I'll beback with an update in the morn... If i am not sure how i'll get through xmas without cheese and pate! Haha, it will be so worth it tho!! :-) x

What!!! No soft boiled egg?? Or Mr whippy ice cream!?!

Uhmm I may re-think this wanting a baby thing!

Any more news Love? Excited for you! Also love the idea of a "faint BFP" :-)

not due til wed earliest but feeling distinct pms/pmt-y so not getting any hopes up, despite having said sore boobs for a week!

I've been up all night so got desperately bored and wanted to cheer this lot up and apparently tell Raspberries to get drinking McDonalds Milkshake while she can

OK so I referred to my book to clear this up once and for all and you're right MrsBri! Silly me! They used to say avoid peanuts (especially those who have allergies in immediate family) but now they say eat them if you want! I highly recommend this book to you ladies when you get the BfP! What to eat when you're pregnant by Dr Rana Conway. It's small, cheap (on amazon) and v easy to refer to in your kitchen or handbag depending how obsessed you're about it all when it comes

MrsB is right though I'm sure you'd swap anything for a BFP right now.

I did catch you!

Buggeration...I dipped prawns crackers in my chicken and sweetcorn soup! Double fail indeed.

I don't eat 4 tins of tuna a week. But could if I wanted to, according to my midwife last week! :-)

She made me tell her what I can't eat. It was like a school test!

Still, I know you lot will be happy to deprive yourself of awesome food abstain once you get your BFPs! :-)