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

Hey everyone :)

I've been lurking (again lol) on various threads and some of the ones I was on before are just a tad obsessive for my liking, so I think I'll park my bum here if that's ok? Must admit, I may have gotten a teeny weenie bit obsessive with peeing on PG tests, even when there was no point, so NO MORE!!!!

Have been TTC since beginning of the year after coming off Microgynon and we got our BFP in May... All was well, had the 12 week scan at very end of July, (when should've been almost 13 weeks) only to be faced with a tiny blob measuring about 7 weeks :( ERPC followed and have been trying again since then :) Just turned 32 and I should be over 7 months now and it kinda hit me today, so feeling a bit pants... Due AF tomorrah, so we shall see! Well, I was due from around 19th-23rd (cheers WTF cycles!) so not going to pee on anything and let what happens happen :)

Nice to 'meet' y'all, and hello to some familiar faces and congrats to those with BFP's :) I'll add myself to stats once AF shows/doesn't show if that's ok!

Definite morning sickness has arrived here. Yuck. Not pleasant. Not feeling sick when I eat but I can't eat constantly, will be the size of a house!

Mood also a bit funny but that's probably just work. Took a week off, but for my boss, "holidays" is just another name for "working from home".

So I'm flying to London for the weekend and need some help from locals: my 15-year old French niece will have a school trip to London soon, so I want to get her some clothes that are currently considered, as we oldies say, "hip" or "cool" by London teenagers - I remember how important it was to fit in at that age. Any suggestions what brands are considered popular nowadays?

As for insurance - better safe than sorry, so whenever I have a question, I both read the contract and send an email to the insurance with the specific question, so I have a written confirmation.

BraveLilBear I have had that hangover mouth thing too so not sure you are imagining it!

DP is home today (for 24 hrs) for his birthday; we are pretending it is a weekend and spending the day in our pjs! Lovely. That is the benefit of self employment! It is lovely how excited he is about the pg.

Haha! Thanks brave! I just got sent the charts etc by a friend - hadn't looked into the group behind them. They are really good charts though - and yes, stretching the cm is one of the tests. I bet that went down really well with the teenage girls!

Janey it was me asking about travel insurance. I asked my Midwife last week and she interestingly said that it is not a pre-existing medical condition! However it is not her I will be chasing for money if something goes wrong so I will not take her word for it.
I allowed our annual travel insurance policy expire due to me getting up the duff, so I think I need to scout around for a decent single trip policy and then probably give them a ring to see what their stance on knocked up travellers is. I have to make sure I get it right as I am going to America and that's the last place in the whole world to be without sufficient medical insurance!
Also, did you say you were going to Dubai before Thailand? Have you been before? I went for the first time this year and absolutely loved it! I think it's an ideal holiday for a mum-to-be. So relaxing, the food is out of this world and everywhere does loads of mocktails and booze alternatives. I wish I was going again

Hello everyone Thanks for all the congrats Nice chart Zombies tho now I want to know what my score is!

Did cave and buy some CBDigital last night and this morning got a 2-3 weeks which I was over the moon about Last time, I never got above 1-2 so feeling very reassured. So score-wise, I think that makes me somewhere between 200 and 2000 which is ok for 4+4 I reckon.

Still don't feel very pregnant, tho do have a very dry mouth and feeling a little delicate (like a bile-y hangover mouth) - but I swear it's psychosomatic!

Hi to the awesomely named LimeLeafLizard and Navis

Hope the namechange is lucky Lol and hope you have a better day Janey - remember you're an elderberry - when elderberries are under pressure, they make fabulous tasy cordial

And Captain, when I was in (Catholic) sixth form, we had a demonstration from the Nat Family Planning people as a way of telling us not to get pregnant. The overriding memory is of them saying you can measure how far the CM stretches as an indicator of fertility.

Was fascinating and grim all at once, but I remembered it. They also said that you don't get spots from chocolate, you get spots from hormones telling you to eat chocolate.

Then the afternoon degenerated as they also brought in a Pro-Life movement and some of my fellow students were somewhat feisty. Talk about being held to account! Yikes! Those were the days...

Morning all,
Zombies - I've been using a chart booklet by the Natural Family Planning group, I'd really recommend it, it's very thorough: temp, CM, cervix position (news to me!) and a whole bunch of other stuff, and laid out very clearly with lots of good advice and explanations. Left to my own devices I would have dtd about a week too soon. I've been using Internet cheapie dipsticks too and adding those into the chart.

Hi limeleaflizard - love your name btw.
With my irregular cycle, I am becoming increasingly more convinced that the CBFM is a gigantic waste of money for me. I'm going to eBay it and start using the cheaper daily ovulation test sticks off Amazon plus continue to use Conceive Plus and track my cd with My Days.

Oh and hi lime!

oh zombies I'm such a wally. I might be upduffed but have absolutely no idea what that's all about

Think I'm starting to be influenced by my hormones: came into work this morning early as I'm under a lot of pressure from my MD and FD to get a project finished this year, which basically means I need to have it done by the end of play next weds due to all my hols. Anyway long story short is I couldn't do ANY work yesterday as IT broke my pc trying to fix it. Promised me solemnly there would be a working pc at my desk by 7.30am. Came in especially early this morning and it wasn't there, and very nearly burst into tears at my desk... Really struggled to contain it!

hazle I think you might have been asking a while back about travel insurance? Well I've spoken to my insurance company and they said pregnancy does count as a pre-existing medical condition. As such you have to prove you've spoken to your doctor to get the OK to travel. So I'm having a telephone consultation later today to (hopefully) get the OK...

Interesting chart here for all you upduffed elderberries..

Hope you don't mind me dropping by briefly to say hello to Pipbin (we were on an earlier ttc thread together). Pip, I was thinking of you earlier this week, and just wanted to wish you well.

Hope this is a BFP-full thread!

Aquarius I get EWCM from about cd9 onwards. I get tiny amounts for a week or so and then an indecent amount for a day or two before ov.

Congrats brave! Great news :)

Happy birthday captain!

Welcome navis

Ooh happy that's interesting... I OVd on cd17 -ish last month but do have rather irregular cycles...will get testing (and dtd'ing - thanks janey!)

If you've got EWCM get to it ASAP ladies!

Yes Aquarius. I'm only on cd10 and already had some ewcm. Usually OV on cd12 though so guess its not that far away??

Evening all. Seem to have missed all the excitement - excellent news brave !!

Makes me feel more hopeful -I'm in month 8 now and was feeling a bit hopeless :( feel like its really not my month but that cant be rational,

Also am on cd9 and getting some EWCM already - whats that all about? Anyone else had that?

welcome navis. This thread certainly brings good luck.

HUGE CONGRATULATIONS brave!!!
Happy birthday captain. Fx for a bday bfp.
Welcome navi.

Hi. Can I join you lovely ladies - I'm going a bit crazy not talking to anyone about all this stuff!! OH is sweet about it all but doesn't really get the POAS obsession

navis176 34, TTC cycle 2 after mmc (4th one - eek - I have bizarre chromosomes), BFP due 20 December

Congrats to those with BFPs and fingers crossed for everyone else...

Well two bfps with B names so I've changed mine! Haven't tried that yet

Yaaaaaay brave!!!!
Think I might be next in the poas line. So scared

Hurrah Brave. How you managed to get to 16 DPO without testing I don't know!