Elderberry Pavlovas And The Eternal Sausage of Wang (Part 4): a frightfully good thread for the over-30s TTC their first baby.

Evening all, sorry to hear a few of you are feeling down with AF or bad luck on the shagging front. We had awful Dec and Jan due to illness and performance anxiety so I know how you feel.

Been to see reflexologist this eve and she says all looks good, or should that be feels good ?!?

CD11 here and negative on the ov stick, got ov+ CD14 last month so it's back on the horse in the morning if you know what I mean. FX to all those on shag week with me!

Thunder - thanks for the wine! Not much of a drinker though, so any chance of a chunk of smelly, mould-ripened, terribly-bad-for-preggos cheese, please?

2cats - every month is a stressful month at the moment, unfortunately! Scratching off the days on my calendar to the summer holidays! (Haven't started using my own blood as ink yet, but give me a few more weeks.)

May have ovulated on day 21 a couple of months ago (though I wasn't entirely convinced) so I suppose I'm not quite over and out yet. No positive OPK and no EWCM though, and usually I get both a day or two before the temp hike.

Am still going to have a half-hearted shag later, just in case. (You can't say I'm not a romantic.)

thunder going down a treat thank you!

boodle ever o'd this late before? stressful month?

Update so us with no hope this month can stalk the rest...

Aquarius AF due 4th feb
Gail cd30
Sidney cd22
Boodle cd20
Thundercats cd13
Bunny cd11 (ave cycle 31 days) AF due 26th feb
Happylass cd11 (of 26)
2 cats cd19 (of 35) but regardless as she cocked up the shagging

Hello! Seems like we have 2 camps at the moment: the 'shag-like-crazy' camp and the 'it's never going to bloody happen' gang! I'm definitely joining the latter as it doesn't look like I'm going to ovulate. Still no signs at all. No chance next month either as DH away. Big fat flippin' humph.

God bless MN, the place where other people actually understand the grief!

aquarius I'm stil fx for you, duck.

thunder I'm with you, jumping between sad and really mad. Surely the shagging is the easy bit so how did I fuck that up? Now another 5 weeks (thanks to long cycles) before I get another go
aquarius still no AF then? Are you defo late now?

thunder sorry you're feeling low - the waiting really does suck - I'm just telling myself it will be all of our turns v soon. And consoling myself by looking at skiing holidays... I do have an frer but I just have an instinct it'd be a waste of £ to use it.

gail hope you're not feeling too blue. is a temp drop conclusive proof of af then?

Shit sorry I meant Gail!! Who's Viv?!?

Sorry to everyone's who's out this month. It's crap at the best of times but must be extra tough if you don't even get to give it a good go. Viv you will get there and it'll be totally worth all the effort. Don't ever give up!!

Been on the case ladies. DTD cd 6, 8 & 10. Currently on cd11 so gonna go for it tonight and tomorrow too. Usually Get temp rise on cd12 so that should pretty much cover it!!

What about and 2cats?
Good to have someone to stick together with though. Its funny cos I seem to be able to cope ok with af/bfns, but this is totally devastating me. I think that at least being in the running was my way of coping with the mmc. Now I don't have a chance it's all crashed down a bit.

aquarius, what about a FRER?

thunder seems we're in the same boat so can be together

navis, it was January, and not for at least this week

Sorry to hear your news Gail and Aquarius

Happy - sounds like you'd best get to it!

Thunder - when did you last dtd? And when might you get to do it again?

gail commiserations.

Cd31 here and a bfn this morning using one of those cheap but allegedly very sensitive Internet tests

happy we really are cycle buddies- I got my first ever :) this morning. Catch is no dtd for me, which means I'm already put for this month. Pretty gutted today.

Sorry gail, that just sucks.

Hi to everyone else

Hi ho hi ho it's off for a smear I go!!!

Lovely way to start the worst day of the week NOT!

Have a good day y'all!

Yey happy, good luck and have fun

That was meant to be in bold not strike through. Doh!

POSITIVE OPK ALERT!! All systems go in the Happy household. Completely forgot to test earlier what with all the talk of weddings!!

Glad to see you back Gail we thought they might have got you again

Pooped back in just made me snort. Please save all unwarned poops for the graduates thread... Over here we have control of our toiletry habits.
gail so so sorry. I am shit at nice comforting words but I echo and believe everything the others said x

I can't believe how nonplused with TTCing I am right now. I really couldn't give a fig.
Daft isn't it?

Gail It will happen, you have got pg before right? That's better than I've managed. You can do it again.

Oh bugger it, thought that typo had gone unnoticed! And it was a typo, not a symptom, honest !

Gail - glad youre alive and not kidnapped. Sorry about temps. But you WILL get there x