The Elderberry Pavlovas who occasionally sausage wang – a fabulous thread for 30+ ladies TTC #1 (Thread 8)

Thunder, to answer your question, if you ov late, then your lp remains the same and AF arrives later.. lp generally remains the same, whereas follicular phase (before ov), can change.

hi trying! PIMP = Pee In My Pot, a term coined by merk, as she (and her converts) use pg tests and opks that require dipping rather than being held under a stream, as it were. So, we needed an acronym to replace POAS - Pee On A Stick.

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WHen I think of sausage wanging I imagine the sausage related sequence in this (at 0.21)

It is half affectionate though bajas, I'd use something very different to Wang a real idiot. like a brick in a pillowcase

Love the sausage wanging explanation. Am compiling a mental top 5 list of people I'd like to sausage wang right now

Frogcatcher, Notwithoutmymerkin and bunnygirlie, Hi back at ya!
And hello to all!

Also think ive got some catching up to do on the lingo!! ??pimping pot??!!

And NotWithoutMyMerkin - I have strangely erattic and raised temp all the time(runs between 37.4-37.9) so temping is no good for me. No pattern to it whatsoever. Has been like this scince I hade whooping cough over a year ago, Drs have checked for the obvious such as thyroid, routine hormone and routine bloods and come up with nothing! Mind you its been a while since i did a months morning temps properly so might give it ago again. Also my GP sent FC referal 5 weeks ago, shouldn't i have heard something by now?

Oh and a bit of help with the lingo would be good guys! so glad i have found you on here, don't know you or your individual situations but you all sound really supportive of each other

Hi all,

Sausage wanging= getting a well deserved slap round the chops for being a plonker.

merk that really does suck. Sympathies. Good luck for piyp tomorrow.

cats go for it! Definitely. and not just cos you let me off

barking wow at run- a walk is the best I can do.

Ok I have a question re cycles. For those of you who know- if you ov a couple of days later than 'normal', do you usually end up with af coming a couple of days later (ie lp stays the same length)? Or does af turn up when you first expected and lp shorten?

merkin that's hard all right. Seeing people having no problems can be so hard.

frog thanks for that- much more positive than I was expecting! Not using opks as cycles v irregular so hoping temping and checking cm will give me some clues. First month temping and using fertility friend so am boring dh senseless with temperature reports at 540am...

Sympathy merkin exactly how I feel around DPs pg niece. Just realised that come July when she is due the royal baby will be too & there will be no let up for me anywhere. Fx I'm updiffed by then.

bajas an older berrie (as in original not aged) will have to explain sausage wanging or wangling as the iPhone wants to call it.
A temp dip is common before O - are you using OPKs too?

Oh no Merkin, that's horrible!!!

Hi all. Have had a crazy busy weekend of marking controlled assessments ready for internal moderation on Friday.

cat I would definitely apply for the job- it'll be food practice if nothing else and you'd never know it could turn out to be perfect for you.

merkin fingers crossed for a stickie one.

Can someone explain sausage wanging to a newbie?!

cd 9 here. Started temping last week and no rise yet but had .5 degree fall today. Does that mean anything?

Heading out for long walk- have around 2 stone to lose and already eat pretty healthily so exercise (much as I hate it- lazy cow) is a necessary evil at the minute..

Argh Facebook pregnancy announcement by my first boyfriends daughter. She's not even 20

Evening all. Sorry for everyone having a shitty day. I came back from work to use my new batch of pee sticks however my wee basically looked like water so wasn't surprised to not see any lines. Also these sticks are ever so slightly different to my last batch only an obsessed freak like me would notice but will see what fmu brings tomorrow. Am planning a lazy night on the sofa as I'm shattered even tho I really should be doing some tidying

we'll let you off, thunder

Only the mc one bunny so I can whinge and hopefully offer support to others going through what I did. I hope that's ok?

ah yes, happy - enjoy the power hour. very underrated.

hello hello!
How are you all? Sorry about the with the photos and pg bumps. The woman at work who is due in June isn't showing at all!
been to visit that school - it was AMAZING! They have chickens! and a gym! and an outdoor stage! and a cycle track! The downside is, I get the impression it may be a bit stressy, as the deputy took my call over the holiday and she mentioned that people were in over the holiday to do displays....it's not that I don't expect to work over holidays, it's just I don't know whether I want to feel OBLIGED to, if that makes sense. They have PE every day....
I'll apply. I doubt I'll get shortlisted though. My deputy said a while ago that she'd look through some applications with me. Should I take her up on it?
anyway, not much ttc news. another day of 'high' on the cbfm, but no other symptoms of ov like I had last time. cd 12, so it could be soon, non?

Barking - a run I've just come in from school and after 6 lessons, 2 duties, a commute and a hellish departmental meeting the only place I'm going is bed for a much needed power hour

Brod I've been TTC about the same amount of time as you. When I went to the GP in February she said to come back in a few months (I'm going back next month) and she would be vague about how long I'd been trying and refer me early. So definitely don't wait until Xmas as it can take 3 months for your referral appointment to come through. Forcefulness may be required! I saw a very sympathetic female GP who had a young child herself so I think I was lucky. Would have been more vague about how long I'd been TTC but I was prescribed 6 months of bc pills last March so don't think I'd get away with it!

Yorkie two nights in a row I've dreamt that DP and I split up . Never had a dream like that before and never come remotely close to it in RL, it was horrible .

trying sounds like you're similar to me, I'm on cycle 17 now and going to the fc on Wednesday. I've been temping for the last 10 cycles and opk for two so I'm pretty definite my LP is usually 8 days, occasionally varying by a day or two. Have you been temping to identify O or just dtd all the way through the month?
tally take the photo home and put it straight in the bin.
booktart I know little, but the follicles sound good!!
poppy hope you're still holding up ok
brod I wouldn't wait until xmas, go back at the end of August when you can say you've been ttc for a year.

Right, off for a run in the sunshine