From egg to egghausted. The journey part one!

Hi bart and notta - how are you both getting on?

I had a lovely holiday, bit tearful today though, back at work & AF arrived last night :( I wasn't hopeful this month as my cycle seemed so screwed up but obviously there was still a bit of disappointment. A hormonal me is a sniffly and weepy me...

Trying to work out a 7 week plan to lose half a stone & generally feel a bit more positive before my next hospital appointment (not for TTC - have another 5 months at least before the NHS will help with that!), so any suggestions gratefully received!

I hope you have a great time ruby and get lots of rest. Sounds like it is well deserved

Hello again bart and congratulations!! Hope all is going well!

I haven't been on MN much or doing anything other than working for the past couple of weeks, been helping OH out at his work evenings & weekends as he is terrible at paperwork and soon to be audited on it (he runs his own business). So I am a very tired Ruby indeed, not enough sleep for a long time :( this may explain why my cycle is rather wonky this month, late OV and no peak on the CBFM monitor, I think my body's too do knackered to do much.....

Still, today we are off to Barcelona for a few days, hence the very early post! AF may well come along too but what can you do!!

Congrats again xx

I also had a dream that I got a BFP about 3-4 days before I actually got one

Spooky!!!

Are you still about ruby ? How are you getting on?

I did think we'd put in a pretty poor effort this month. So wasnt very happy with dh really. It was just too damn hot though!

I will try, i think its really unlikelyy for me this time, what with only having had one period and all!! Not sure if i should get opk's or leave it a couple of months to settle. I was always very regular but had 7 yrs on depo jab and before that many years (on and off) the pill.

Good to hear you got your bfp after only one deed!! I have to say, we have a good sex life but i can't imagine getting round to it every day!!

Yes it is quite a scary thought. Although i do feel a bit better this time as i have some idea of whats coming. Not say its all going to be good! But at least i know

The past few months ive been doing opk's, noting down every symptom, and then testing from about 8dpo. This month i didnt do any of those and waited until about 12 dpo before testing. And we only dtd once over fertile window. Something must have worked!

Do you think you will be able to hold off until 7th?

I hope so!! God i think i'd be quite scared if i did get a bfp this month!! Will try to wait til af is due before testing again.

notta i had a dream i got a bfp last week!!! And in the dream my due date was just 3 days before my actual due date now. Maybe its a sign that this is your month?!

This was my 4th month of actively trying. And i hate to say it but my obsession definately didnt die down lol. Good luck with that

Woo hoo!! Congratulations!!!! I actually dreamt that i got a bfp last night!! Hoping my initial obsession wears off a bit!

Woke up early needing to pee so thought may aswell do it now. Bfp!

There are definitely lines there....good luck tomorrow.

Hello nottalotta welcome to the thread congrats on the wedding. Me and dh have only been married 4 months.

Thank you for the congratulations! Although i still darent believe it yet. Im going to dona digital one in the morning when af should be due just to check. Im quite nervous about doing it though as i feel pretty much the same as i do before af shows up which worries me some what. But i know a lot of the symptoms are the same. Ive put a pic of the tests on my profile and there are definate lines...

I think the next step after a bfp from what i can remember from nearly 5 years ago is a booking in appt with the midwife. Or just phone gp's and say im pg what do i do now?! Lol. Im going to wait a couple of weeks first though i think.

Hopefully your cycle wont take too long to settle down

Hello all, can i join please? Been looking for a suitable thread and think this may be it!! Bit about me.....35, married all of two months :-) but we've been together an age. Was on depo jab for about 7 yrs. Last was sept 2012 so was due another at start of december but didn't have it. Didn't have a period the whole time i was on it and was expecting it to take a while to get af after coming offf jab. Well, af arrived this month ....7 months after last jab was due.

Has prelim.blood tests in may when i told gp (during a visit about something else) that af still hadn't arrived. Blood tests for hormone level which were all fine.

Don't expect for a minute that my cycle will suddenly be regular but dtd twice in the week that i would ov if it were a 28 day cycle.....

Friday night i felt rotten - based on 28day cycle, af due 7th aug. Friday i felt pain in lower left tummy, and felt soooo nauseus i had to go and lie down. Couldn't even finish my wine!!! (or read or scour mn for advice....) had decided NOT to poas til 7th aug but caved in today and BFN. Obviously. Feel fine about it just a bit stupid for testing so early!

Congrats bartbaby on your bfp!!! Exciting!!!

Something i was thinking about earlier is what next when you get your bfp?? GP appointment? So new to this!!

Hi ruby how are you doing? Did you manage to get some dtd done while you had your high reading? Im glad dh apologised to you so he should aswell.

I think ive only gone and got me a bfp!! I wasnt hopefull at all this month but i poss yesterday morning and faint line. And same again today! Not even a hold it up in the light and squint line. an actual propper one I still dont feel like i can let my self believe it or get my hopes up. Af would be due around tomorrow so i will feel better after that. Then i will do a digital one just to be sure. I wont believe it until i see it written down. But surely 2 superdrug tests cant both be wrong?!

Hi BartBaby - oh wow, that must have been really tough for you, I appreciate you sharing. To be fair it was a group of them going away and I couldn't as I was working (but would have hated it anyway!), it was just that she decided to stay on an extra night when it was only him and her. He naively thinks they are like brother and sister - HA - he can't see that she would pounce on him just as soon as she could, and uses him mainly for free booze for herself and a free babysitter for her nightmare children.

He was a bit sheepish last night when he realised how cross I was and why - not only that he had forgotten to phone me but because he'd done so much running around for her. He did actually apologise for a change and then lugged the air con unit up to the bedroom, which nearly killed him.....

Anyhow, all is a bit more positive with me and thank you again for letting me know your thoughts :) another high reading today but I have the utmost respect for my parents managing to conceive me during the heatwave of 1976, most of the time I am far too hot to DTD!!

Oh dear i hope you can sort things with dh without wasting the high peak day. I think its very out of order that he hasnt been in touch with you.

My dh would have no chance of going away with another woman. Have you told him you arent happy with it?

Things like that are a bit of a sore subject in the bart household. Its not the same and im not suggesting anything like this will happen, but years ago dh (or dp as he was then) was still in occasional contact with his ex. I didnt like it. Dh still replied to messages etc but hid it (badly) instead. Long story short he got into a situation and ended up cheating. We broke up for a while. Eventually sorted through things, and are now happier than we have ever been and have recently got married. I dont feel as though there is a threat there anymore. And he has slowly managed to build up the trust again. Which is good with his job involving him travelling a lot!

I know it isnt the same for you and cheating isnt the issue. But it explains why i wouldnt let it happen now. If you feel he is putting her first, he needs telling that he shouldnt be doing that. Especially if it is getting in the way of you having a family of your own. Id be telling him bluntly that if he put more effort into creating his own family rather than being with her family then you might get somewhere.

If i had put a stop to dh's behaviour maybe things would have been different. I hope you dont feel i have over stepped the mark here. I just wanted to stress to you that where other women are concerned. Our men need telling! Lol

Well, my mind would be more settled if OH had bothered to call me at all over the weekend - so annoyed - spent the whole day in a strop. He's on his way back now but I only know this via the iPhone tracking rather than because he's bothered to tell me. I KNOW I should sit down and talk to him about this calmly and reasonably and explain that it really upsets me when he puts Evil Cow first, but I also know that I'm so wound up I'm going to snap at him as soon as I do hear from him.....

So yes, that high reading on the CBFM today may well be wasted!! Grrrr, I can feel myself being absolutely fuming about it - not sure if I'm more annoyed at her for being a selfish and self centred witch or him for letting her do it.

On the work front, I work in facilities & maintenance (organising it, not doing it, I am rubbish at all forms of DIY!) and my job is really busy and quite stressful. We've recently been told that we're changing to a different purchasing system, which will involve even more work on a day to day basis. I'm currently trying to work out how to approach HR and explain that it won't be done as I don't have the time

I will have my fingers crossed for your BFP this month as quite frankly OH will be lucky if he has the means left to have kids once I've seen him!!

Great news about the test results!! hopefully your mind will be a mind will be a bit more settled now. And you can get on to dh for his checks as you already did your part. its much better to find out sooner rather than later then at least something can be done if needs be.

Sounds like you havent ov yet so will be in with a fighting chance once dh comes back. Even if you get a peak tomorrow there will still be when he gets home or even tuesday might just catch aswell. And bonus if af missed your holiday! I still think that she might just get me towards the end of mine. But they've only been lasting 2 says anyway so it shouldnt be too bad.

And it sounds like you need a break! all that working.... It will be a well earned holiday. Ive been a stay at home mum since august. Worked in a call centre and totally hated the job! And dh was working away alot so we were lucky enough at the time to be in a position where i could just stay at home and look after ds. Rather than him having to go to nursery and relying on my auntie to look after him. And im glad to be out of the benefits system! not sure if you have any experience with them and hoping you dont work for them!! but the people at tax credits and child benefit etc are useless! or at least the ones ive dealt with. Especially since the new child benefit rules have changed this year. What a faff about. (Sorry about the rant on this can you tell i had to call them this weekend?!)

Anyway he's starting full time school in september so im probably going to look for something else then. Dh isnt away quite as much now, and thats where the money is! So the extra pennies would be useful. Obviously thats if im not upduffed by then

Im about 6 or 7dpo maybe? And have no symptoms yet this month. Not even my sore boobs that normally arrive on or just after ov. Not that im complaining! Its nice to be able to walk down stairs without holding on to them! Lol.

I hope you have a good week

Forgot to say, I'm also hoping that the delayed OV means that AF will join me post-holiday!!

No DTD for me for a week or so and OH is still away this weekend, so unless the immaculate conception is repeated it's looking unlikely for me too on the other hand, my CBFM monitor tells me that I'm on day 13 and still no high or peak readings, so you never know - I may not have missed my chance if I haven't OV'd yet..... I think I've been so busy with normal work, evening work (for extra money) and bar work this weekend (for charity) that my body has said enough is enough!! OH should be back tomorrow evening so if that coincides with OV time then I may have to pounce on him, although I'll wait for him to take his sweaty and horrible motorbike leathers off and have a shower first.....

My blood tests all came back fine thank you!! The official verdict from the GP was all satisfactory, they didn't give me the actual results but will if I specifically ask.

Fingers crossed for both of us this month. OH is away with his (horrible, evil cow) of a female friend and her (nightmare) children who he unaccountably thinks are great. I popped up to see them yesterday and to be fair the demon children were ok but she was the usual lying, scheming selfish witch she always is. Can you tell I don't like her?! TBH I think he is aware of her faults but turns a blind eye as he sees the kids as his surrogate ones, they'd be the same age as the ones he was trying for with his ex. I'm really hoping that if we do manage to have a baby, he won't think of her as a suitable babysitter

Only 1 successful dtd this weekend! Not looking good for this month i suspect.

Did you manage to get your results back? I really hope its all good for you have you had your peak fertility thingy yet? Its a pain if it coincides with the oh being away. My dh works away sometimes during the week so im normally hoping it happens on a weekend! Or at least the beginning of the week.

I know what you mean about other pg women. My best friend and my step sister are both pg. It took my friend a long while to ttc aswell so she isnt smug. She knows how it is. But with my step sister is was just an accident, she didnt even know how far along she was. She's not been smug but i cant help feeling bah!! I wish it was that easy for all of us!

Anyways im a few dpo. Trying and failing not to symptom spot. Been a bit sicky today, and really itchy. Probably the heat as its way way to early for it to be anything else. No sore boobs as yet thats normally my first confusing tell tale sign af is on the way.

Oh and me and dh habe decided no alcohol until we go on our holiday (well maybe the odd cheeky one) not so much for ttc purposes but to try and look a bit better on the beach! So part of me is thinking im really looking forward to drinks on holiday!

Well done on avoiding the OPKs!! I'm still using the CBFM and I do find it helpful (although not helpful enough to give me a BFP yet!). In yet another display of cracking timing, OH is away this weekend which I'm sure will coincide with peak fertility..... sigh.

I should have my blood test results soon, might ring up tomorrow actually to see if they're in yet, they did say about a week so hopefully I'm not being too optimistic..... fingers crossed that all will be well, but if not hopefully the GP will be able to do more for us after that.

Oh and at least the smug pregnant cow at work is sodding off on maternity leave soon, although not without daily references to not being able to do this, that and the other because she's pregnant, don't you know. Grrrrrr. I'm probably being a bit oversensitive, but she IS very smug and annoying at the best of times, so this doesn't help!

How are things on your TTC journey? I'm still going between being ridiculously broody and being happy to wait whilst we go on holiday, have nice meals out etc. But mostly I am ridiculously broody, if worried that it will never happen :(

Im sure you will still enjoy your holiday ruby even if af tags along. It will be a good distraction i think she will turn up towards the end of my holiday aswell, but as long as we are prepared just incase we will be fine! Positive thinking though and she may not be there at all

When will you get the results back? Everything crossed for you.

I actually dont know what cycle day im on! Im not looking at calenders, and although i know im due to ov at the weekend or early next week im not going to do any opk's. I'm rather pleased with myself for sticking to my more relaxed approach this month. And i do feel a lot better for it. But dh still better put out over the weekend or i might not be as happy!

I hope you have a good weekend.