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

I'm using the baby mad one too. Just started yesterday so don't know how useful it is yet but at least I feel like I'm doing something about it. Hate the fact that you have no control of ttc (makes me sound like a control freak so at least I'm doing something.

Only problem is I toss and turn for half an hour before alarm anyway so am not doing it straight from sleep. I get up at 6 and really don't want to set alarm any earlier than 530! Does it make a big difference?

I had the Babymad brand one from Amazon too. Worked a treat. No idea what I've done with mine but they only cost a couple of quid.

bunny the real question for you is do you need to. You potentially know more about your cycles than the rest of us. So;
Do you know when you O?
Do you know if you O?
If you can't answer yes to both the above then temp, say 3 cycles then decide if you want to carry on. not that I just want another chart to ogle

Temping is great! But don't use the eBay one - mine is a little temperamental and sometimes takes 4 or 5 goes to turn on, which is stupid if you're not supposed to wake up properly to use it....

(Was never known for my wonderful powers of reason and persuasion as you can probably tell from that post!

Do. It. You know you want to. Come over to the dark side.

Look, if it's not for you, you can just stop again!

To temp. With a babymad bbt. You know it makes sense!!

Bunny, my thermometer is the same as Merks; I recommend it!

Cherry - no scary biscuits for you. Perhaps linseed flapjacks or something like that? Seriously though, that sounds intense. Another thing to put in the 'mulling over' thought bank until the summer holidays at which point if I have no progress through conventional medical routes, I will be seeing nutritionalists, reflexologists, acupuncturists, yogis and praying to Akna, the Mayan goddess of fertility

bunny Do it! You can buy them really cheap on ebay. temping is the best thing you can do to understand your cycle. I know for definite when I have ovulated and I pretty much know when AF is going to appear as my temp starts dropping a few days beforehand. It does get a bit obsessive though... Just make sure you buy a proper basal one.

Bunny mine was about £4 off Ebay so cheap as chips :)

This is my thermometer

Bunny, less than a fiver I think from amazon

sorry to read you're having such a hard time of it cherry but sounds like very positive steps. The diet sounds brutal but if there is something potentially amazing at the end of it it has to be worth all that struggle and willpower when you're tempted to put your hand in the cookie jar. Good luck with it!

yep the baby on board badges are tough to see esp. when it's the 1st day of af and you're feeling pretty down about the whole thing. Tally you're absolutely right about some commuters ignoring them though. You see people avidly staring at there newspaper or pretending to be asleep when you know full well that they've spotted the badge out of the corner of their eye!

Didn't realise there was a yoni thread 2?!

Noooo Bunny seriously? We've worn you down. Yay! Well done berries, the bouncy one may finally be succumbing to the PIMPING ways.

Boodle there was a 6 page advance questionnaire to begin with on history, family, symptoms, diet, food reactions etc. then a followup one more tailored to specific ishoos and I sent my test results to date. Then today we had a 1hr 15 consultation about it all in more detail and she also talked through concepts and recommendations.

I've now had a tailored plan sent through which looks reeeallly hardcore, plus a list of extra supplements I have to take. It's very specifically just for me and all my peculiar ways . Scary biscuits.

Noooo!!! You're doing it to me again merk! I was awake gone midnight reading thread 1 in bed last night and trying to suppress my hysterics so as not to wake DP!!!

Wimwom keep me posted if you hear any more about it; I'll be straight my doctors and moaning at them again.

Cherry, I'm going to be nosey about your nutritionalist visit. Were there lots and lots of questions? Is it very specifically tailored to you and you alone or is it for you and DH? I find the whole healthy eating thing so confusing. So much stuff is good for you one minute and bad the next. I would quite like someone to just tell me exactly what to eat and when!

Boodle - think soon, apparently some new guidelines published recently in BMJ re fertility, miscarriage and TSH. But until said by NICE are just guidelines.
Cherry - diet sounds hard, but encouraging. A friend of mine's husband went from a "did u cough in this pot?" To a normal semen sample simply through diet. Sounds like a really positive step.

Oh wow cherry, that diet sounds brutal. Dh went on an exclusion diet for a month before discovering our lactose intolerance. It was hard going to start with and although we got used to it after a while, he never wants to eat linseed again. But the final possible outcome is so fantastic that I think I'd try it even knowing it'll be hard. Good luck!

Those baby on board badges would really get me something, depending on the day - pissed off or tearful or something. A friend on dc2 was posting about the fact that people didn't take any notice of hers on her commute, so I think people are pretty bored with them too.

Oh damn it Puppy sorry to hear that. Tis definitely a day for expletives...

Pip it was a private consultation, trying not to think of the cost of all this but can I afford not to? Argh!

Barking thanks for that, have a bouquet of sausages at once. I can't eat them anyway

happy they named him Brian (mn posters!)
The new thread is funny because some ppl haven't seen the original thread and think its being serious!!

Merks where did Brian come from?? I thought the OP was called HullDad?