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

And I'm still here too! Albeit from a very remote island in Thailand...

Am sure bunny understands you meant it in the nicest possible way.

Bunny - sorry to hear you're down You WILL get there in the end, it's just a shitty time in the meantime...x

I'm still here
Feeling knackered after Xmas party but actually enjoyed not getting pissed and am loving not having a hangover. Silver lining and all that!

Oh no I've killed the thread :(
bunny please come back, I mean it in the most constructive way and nothing I wouldn't do myself if I needed to :(
Please ignore my post if the concept is abhorrent to you.

Bunny what I am going to say may sound very insensitive or crass but I assure you I don't mean it that way. (And i would not hesitate to go down this road if i had issues re DTD for whatever reason in the future- I suspect it's not for everyone and most people's DPs if not they themselves would have a problem with it).
If health issues are creating a problem as far as DTD is concerned, is it possible to use the sterile syringe route on a day when DTD is a problem? I don't think it's for everyone though and you may have very strong feelings about it.
Please don't flame me, I mean it only in the spirit of trying to get pregnant (which is the holy grail at this point for me really).

hugs bunny. sound like you need it xx

Agree on symptoms being similar to af! Don't give up hope until its over.
Today my DH did the dance exams I had to give up due to being pg. He came home with a bronze AND a silver medal in Latin dancing! I'm so proud!! Just had to share x

Zombies, fx for you
Bunny, massive hugs

Nod nod to Rache, Zombies. I had totally written off my bfp thinking it was af. Now I'm 8 weeks tomo :)

Fx you feel better soon Bunny.

oh and yay for exciting scan news Blol and Rache! And what a way to break the news Hazle, so pleased for you :)

I now have proper ms, combined with huge infected hair follicle in unmentionables. In total agony, sobbing with despair every 15 minutes, but still strangely glad to be vomiting. If only I could sit down, I'm sure I'd feel much better.

Happy weekend people x

Thanks rache stepping away from the pee stick and keeping fx.

Zombies well if AF still isn't here properly then you're still in the game and I have everything crossed for you. The early PG symptoms are so similar to AF it's enough to drive the sanest person mad!

..... well not exactly happy but I hope you know what I mean!

Don't give up Bunny, it is hard but you know it will be worth it.
There's nothing wrong with letting your anger/upset out though and we're always happy to hear it x

run a mile not "run a mile after". That makes him sound a lot more athletic

AF is due in four days but I would have expected some v mild brown by now in the normal course of events.
Thank goodness for MN, I couldn't have had this detailed a discussion with DH well I could have, but he would have run a mile after

Zombies could it be implantation or is AF due now? I think implantation is more likely to be browner rather then red?

TMI
Looks like AF when I wipe. Ie mildly brown.

There goes any secret hope I had. Might as well POAS and be done with it. What's the point.

rache - ta for agreeing with the sensible approach to the 2ww - especially at this time of year it is impossible to not drink without people jumping to the wrong (well, right, possibly, fx!) conclusions - I'm sure it can't do any harm that early on anyway - millions of people get upduffed while pissed

bunny - don't feel silly - I was crying about it all to a couple of friends the other day too - it turns us all into mentallists

Hi bunny don't feel silly for crying in your friend - that's what they're for& it's totally normal. It is so hard ttc - because we can't control it & we beat ourselves about it when it doesn't happen& it seems so unfair. I'm gonna try and put it away over Xmas and enjoy the few days off without thinking too much about it no doubt with the help of plenty of Xmas drinks

Lol I asked the Sonographer why my date had changed by 2 days in only 2.5 weeks and she said that now is a more accurate time to measure the CRL than earlier in the trimester. I'm sure it's all guesswork really and given that babies rarely arrive on their due date they are never held to account for getting it wrong!

Aww, that's lovely Hazle. I feel emotional just thinking about your parents' reaction (bloody hormones!)

Navis you are allowed to drink whatever the hell you like on the 2WW because it's already tough enough without denying yourself one of life's pleasures! I took the attitude that it was business as usual until I got the two lines on the stick. The weekend before my BFP I got completely plastered quite merry on the Friday and Saturday nights and then spent most of Sunday hungover and dragging myself between a jacuzzi and a sauna. Not exactly the way I had envisaged getting my pregnancy underway

Hurray hurrah for good scan news Rache and BLol!
Now Fx for all you dtd/2ww ladies.. Swim, little spermies, swim!

bullseye

Just realised that even though it's been 3 cycles, it's been more than 4 months trying because of the length of my cycle :(
And also realised that winning this bullsye is all a game of blind man's poker (mixing a metaphor?) given the dates at which your scans are revealing what you thought and what happened re timing. You just keep throwing those darts and maybe sometime you might get lucky.