Elderberry Pavlovas Unite - the over 30s TTC number 1 (thread 2)

Thanks! The line is there this morning (yes rache I couldn't resist, so much for lofty goals of alternate day checking). It looks a little more visible. Am aware the odds are still v much stacked against it so DH and i are dealing with this with a lot of humour and jokes in case things go south.

Fingers crossed for you zombies!

AF is due tomorrow for me. Im not optimistic to be honest. I think we dtd too early. Not long to wait though.
I keep on coming up with reasons its better to get a bfn this month. Not sure I'm that convinced yet!

Zombies - my line was sooo pale when I first got my BFP that I think DP and I could only see it because we spent ages studying it! But it got slowly darker day by day. Yeah things could go wrong for either of us (I'm 11 weeks tomorrow and still petrified!) but a line is a line. So - congratulations!

Nice one rache.
On a different note, I found this v interesting.

30+ is definitely the right time to TTC #1! www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/12/121212162558.htm

My first BFP at 11dpo was very faint Zombies. I don't think you can equate a faint line with a probable CP. I understand your reservation until you get a more definite line - but to be honest it doesn't get much easier to believe with a strong line either!! I tested every day for a week

Ooh zombies exciting!!

Nosey away rache!

I totally understand your caution Zombies, BUT A LINE IS A LINE! Woohoo!!
I'm not sure my extreme noseyness anticipation will cope with you POAS every other day, I need to know every day if not twice a day!

It's no more vivid a line than the line in the picture attached to the first post here and apparently this woman had AF the very next day! So assuming a chemical pregnancy in that case.

Hi quod! Trying not to get excited because it's such long odds. Did have a glass of whole milk though today- apparently it helps implantation?
Will probably check day after tomorrow if I'm not naughty tomorrow morning

Zombies I almost missed that - wow that is exciting! So you will test again tmw or the next day?

Another one here whose had a dtd meltdown! Crying whilst legs in the air. Poor hubby!

Congratulations Bottlered! Fantastic news to finish the weekends.

Bunny - sorry you are feeling low. Dtd meltdowns = been there done that. I can empathise with you. You will get there.

bottlered I'm only about 7-9 DPO by my calculation so I am going to try to test maybe alternate days and see if the line stays. I used a FRER this morning.

Thanks everyone. Keeping everything crossed it sticks!

Zombie If it's any help I've used Clear Blue tests with conception indicator 13 days after ovulation a couple of times now and they've been accurate. Don't know what day you're up to but if you're close then it might give you a definite answer.

Congrats bottlered!!
So.
Happened to be up till 4am last night (!) and got carried away in a moment of madness before I went to sleep and POASd. I wasn't sure so checked in the morning with DH. There appears to be a VERY faint line (so faint it cannot be photographed, so faint that I wouldn't have seen it unless I had been looking for it, it's barely there).
At the moment am taking this as a confirmation that metformin worked, that I did ovulate this month, and that the plumbing worked! it is a long shot indeed since I am still 3 days to AF .
Meanwhile AFy symptoms are still there- bit of tummy ache and back ache but no AF yet. We'll see how this goes but fx. At the moment I am not reacting to it and am fully expecting AF to kick in soon

bottlered - massive congrats!!

I've just been out for lunch with a bunch of old school acquaintances who seem to have a zillion kids between them - properly depressing [sigh]

Congrats bottlered!! Great news!

Massive congrats BottleRed!!! FX for a Santa sticky one!

For what it's worth on the turkey baster front, personally I would absolutely be up for giving it a go. I want my DH to be the father of my offspring but I wouldn't care if that happened by shagging, from the end of a self-administered syringe or in a petri dish in an IVF clinic. It's the end result that I want and I wouldn't care how I got it.

Yay Bottlered! That is fantastic news!

Congrats bottlered hope its the start of a few more BFPs!!!

Of bottle red that's amazing news. Mahoosive congrats to you both. Right maybe this is the start of the festive flurry of BFP's we've all been waiting for... Fingers crossed...

Zombie I have definitely considered that approach. I'd be OK but not sure OH would be OK with it.

Anyways.... I'm back after a week of radio silence. Really busy and lots of Xmas parties buuuuuuuuutttttt this morning with a bit of a hangover POAS and BFFP!!!!!

Big relief to get pg again but the mc worry has already kicked in. Have started my baby asprin which I'm really hoping makes the difference this time but not getting excited until I get another couple of weeks under my belt.... Worst case scenario, we have a third mc and then I'll get a referral for investigations.

Just to add my tuppence-worth to the conversations I've read on here about when to DTD - this month was only twice! Once on first day CBFM gave the egg symbol and day after! We've had months when we have been a lot more prolific and got absolutely nothing so for all the planning and timing of DTD, it seems to be down to nothing but luck.

Don't want to ginx anything but Est DDate 25th Aug.

Now I'm off to check my knickers for the 100th time today!!