Elderberry Pavlovas Unite - the over 30s TTC number 1

How many DPO are you again zombies? Maybe, just maybe it's just a bit too soon...? Last month I got a BFN one day, then a BFP the next, so you never know.... Everything crossed for you....

Tests this morning dash Zombies hopes!
Stay tuned for the December edition of The Monthly Hope.

Ooh zombie I got it wrong. Fx it turns into a BFP!

I like the sound of mystic Rache :)

Oooo Zombies you've got me all excited that there's another BFP on the way. 4 days before AF is due sounds very promising. If it's implantation then POAS tomorrow might show a BFP?

Bunny, Winkle & Pipbin, my alter-ego Mystic Rach has confided in me that it will be your turn very soon and to get yourselves stocked up on Gaviscon and Haemorrhoid Cream

Big sighs pip.

We will be seeing a friend at Christmas who started trying after us, got pg after two months and now has a three month old.
I don't think I'll be able to stand it.
That and three pregnant women at work. grrrrrrr

There's a girl I know who started trying the same month as me and got preg first time and now I have to see her pics on fb. Today's was '15 weeks today'. Such a reminder of what I could have had.

So Zombie, is it AF or not? I'm hoping not, brown spotting can be a good sign. Can you have a cheeky POAS just in case?

Bunny It's dreadful isn't it. My Facebook is just full of pregnant women, in fact there are three due in the same week, three who have just had theirs and the rest of them had their a couple of years ago. Seems its just me who is not up the stick.

Sending you Big Hugs bunny. It's so difficult, it just has to be our turn soon.

Zombie - sorry it turned into AF :(

Poor bunny, of course it's difficult to see. Especially if the friends are several years younger and you think that hey, what are you doing pregnant? It's my turn!

Janey how annoying with the "can't...well actually can, but just don't want to..". I totally expect a similar row with mine tomorrow over my thyroxine - I bet he's going to do the usual "No, no need to change, you're within the normal range". Well, I'm at the upper end and feel better when I'm as low as possible, so I don't see any reason not to adjust the dosage, but for some reason it's always a fight with all docs. Sigh.

Hugs bunny. It'll be your turn soon.

Oh bunny - cross post - poor you

Lots of virtual hugs. I've been there many times over the years (found it massively hard even when single as it meant I couldn't even ttc even though I desperately wanted children) - am sure we all have - and even when you already know, somehow seeing the scan (or the bump) makes it much harder

Have some wine, and remind yourself you won't be able to do that soon

Oh zombies I really hope it is the start of something beautiful!! You never know...

Doctors was totally underwhelming. Told him excitedly that i was pg, date of last AF, that i had a mc last year, and could i be referred to the midwife. Took blood pressure, weighed me ("your BMI is in normal range" - urrrr yes I know) and asked if pg was planned (I replied very much so - but came away wondering what that had to do with him). A nurse walked in to ask him to sign some prescriptions and I was dismissed with a wave and as I walked out he said 'make sure you take folic acid'. Wow.

Oh I exaggerate, there was more to it then that. He also said he'd refer me to the local hospital. I said I didn't want that one (5mins drive from mine) but another hospital I had my mc in (10 mins drive away) and he said he couldn't do that, I had to go to the local one. I politely said I didn't think this was true, given (after a slight row) I was referred to the other one last time. He said that 'on this occasion' he'd do it but they're not supposed to. Idiot. The doctor last time admitted it's easier to refer me to the local one as it can be done through a shared computer system, other referrals take actual paperwork. So what you lazy buggers, I'm not stupid and I know what I want...

It's not funny Zombies but you definitely raised a smile just then! I guess you're not out til the AF sings, right?

Hazle and Quod I know symptoms/lack doesn't mean much, but it made me feel really pregnant and ergo reassuring. Logic doesn't figure at all tho.

Sorry earlier when I said AF was here it definitely looked like it was here.
I'm the boy who cried Wolf, aren't i?

[we all know the story probably ends in tears anyway so might as well have a laugh in the process ]

TMI
Lots of brownish discharge. More than spotting. No full blown AF yet. And wouldn't have expected AF till 12th anyway.
Are Zombies' hopes dashed or could this be the start of a beautiful thing?
Tune in to future instalments to know what happens next!

My extensive googling yields the result that symptoms don't mean anything and lack of symptoms doesn't mean anything. Oh and that every pg is different even with the same woman. I am trying to be grateful for the days I don't feel too sick. Luckily my quease is still quite faint and intermittent.

I have got a night out tonight at a gig where there will be loads of people I know and where I will have to style out not drinking. I cried off something else earlier in the week with 'cystitis' so I'm hoping to give that old chestnut another go around. Hope I stay awake!

I had the same last time, even though I only got to 5 weeks, I actually threw up a few times, nausea just appeared out of the blue, no warning.
So I guess we can all conclude that having morning sickness is not necessarily a guarantee that everything is well.

janey we are so cruel to ourselves!

I went from being desperately hungry all the time to not wanting food at all in a matter of days during my last pregnancy. Two days before I lost it, I was in a seriously couldn't face food day and suddenly felt nausea sweep over me while I was speaking to a member of the House of Lords.

I have no idea what he was saying, was too busy trying to quell the feeling! Managed to force some soup and bread down me (the smell of the bread was making me gag cos it was cheese-topped) but literally the minute I got it in my mouth I felt totally fine.

I remember feeling like 'wow, I really am pregnant - kinda sucks, but I kinda like it' Lol.