The Elderberry Pavlovas, sausage bouquets, one giant sofa and the Gü pots of destiny! (thread 9)

Oh no...I deaded the thread!

Tally and Bunny - sorry to hear of your not so good days.

Hi Berries. I've been absent the last couple of days, so just going to have a read and catch up. In the meantime, has anyone read the 'House Rules I Forgot to Make' in discussion of the day?! It's brilliant! I've been chortling away here and it's taking my mind of another AF from hell.

ARSE! tally and bunny I totally feel your pain with these shitty situations.

tally bull in a china shop or wot? Total respect to you though- you dealt with such a difficult thing three times over all without 'lunching anyone in the face' - sorry bunny but I like this as an aggressive gesture.

And bunny yep I know about this situation, and it SUCKS. FFS is all I can say.

blind have you considered poas if you're late?! (sorry if I've missed something and am being slow)

frog haha performance enhanced yoga!

cats you don?t always get a peak on your first cycle as its still getting to know you

happy that is reassuring to know that the long termers finally got their bfps

boom maybe it?s a blessing that they?ve actually found something. Maybe now they can treat it?

Right guys, I need to go and pack for my jollys! Oh and still no sign of af, meaning I?m going to be on rag week all first week of my hol grrr!!!!

Tally, can understand why you're annoyed - you didn't want to have to have those conversations and the group email forced you into that situation, when all you wanted was for that person to have a quiet word... people are weird.

Grr bunny. Frustrating!!
strange man refusing sex. I have the opposite problem as I'm usually the tired one but I have experienced it occasionally.

Thanks for the Sid and everyone. I did talk to the grandma and she completely understood and apologised for not thinking about me. turns out she had3 mcs before her 1st, and her daughter has too. I had a couple of annoyingly sympathetic conversations but at least they will be thinking a bit more about it.

bunny scream and cry! We're listening. It's so crap, isn't it? We spend our time monitoring and thinking and researching and all the men need to do is dtd, something they enjoy, and at the crucial moment, nothing!! Feel your annoyance.

tally, that's crap! What a mad thing to do! Like sid says, can you catch grandmother alone and explain? Mass emails are the devil.

sid, thanks for your reply about the cbfm. It's flashing m now, suggesting my period is due. Is it assuming a 28 day cycle? I'm cd 27, but 26 on the monitor as af arrived in the evening, so had to set the monitor the following morning. I've never had a 28 day cycle in my life, so would be shocked if that's what happens. Also, that would mean I ov two weeks ago...hmmm ...confused.

OMG Tally. Not sure what to say bc my mind has totally gone blank from second hand embarrassment!! I'm sure your colleague meant well but she used a sledgehammer when a a gentle tap would've done the job. Nothing good ever comes from a mass email! Can you find out if the new gran was included, and if so maybe go to her directly and explain that you're happy for her but are having a difficult time lately and not able to be as enthusiastic as you wish you could be? I'm sure she'll understand.

Well that's gone and done it! I mentioned to a colleague when we were alone that I was finding it hard and wondering if she could mention it to the others and she's only gone and sent a group email round to the ladies in admin to basically telling them to ssh about babies. I have a sinking feeling she might even have included the new gran and now I feel sufficiently and basically mortified that she might think I wanted her to shut up about her granddaughter.
I want to go home now please.

Hmm boom I don't know much about those hormones but I do think it's ace that you get bumped up the queue and get seen quicker. Good stuff.

Yeah sid and tally, just got a bout of thrush at the weekend and hoping it'll be gone in the next couple of days in time for shagathon. Was just wondering whether it would get in the way of ttc if it's still here and was preparing to have another meltdown on the bad timing of life. But I'll keep my cool with that advice tally!

tally really sorry for yet more insensitive people at work. I hate that feeling of being upset and that being ignored, it's like you're shrinking and noone cares. Hug for you- it'll be your turn one day soon x

yes thunder, I have. essay cream has always done the trick just in time though.. However, I found the thrush made me that much more sensitive it actually want too bad an experience after I told dh to take it easy.

great news boom even though it seems totally wrong to congratulate you for a possible hormonal imbalance I say anything that gets you closer to getting pg is a definite step in the right direction. your gp is a joke! v jealous of your hsg appointment; I want one so much and i'm not even quite sure why!

tally take care of yourself, if that means leaving the room when baby talk erupts then do it & don't look back.

thunder i haven't had thrush in a v long time so can't help; what's going on?

merkin how are you?

Ok, I've had a rub. hoping it fixes random unknown problems as well as gets us duffed...

Colleague's first granddaughter was born yesterday. cue photos being emailed and everyone else in the office cooing and reminiscing and making me feel incredibly sad and left out. I packed up and left the office early because said lady walked in and they proceeded to coo at her too. I don't think they even noticed, which is pissing me off that they don't think anything is wrong. they obviously haven't noticed me going quiet over the last few weeks when she talks about it.

And I was all happy this morning because I finally got some ewcm this month having not seen any last month after I actually was looking for it.

Apparently my testosterone is high and my progesterone is low. She sounded very confused about the whole thing I must say. Just phoned up to ask about the hycosy appt, they asked when my next period was due and got annoyed when I said 'some time in the next three months, probably when it's least convenient' haha

boom just trying to catch you before bed- did they say which hormones are out of balance and how?

Uffffff. Just sticking my head round the door on the way to go and collapse in my bed. Delivered two gooooorgeous babies last night and looked after a long-term ttc-er who had 6 failed IUIs and a MC and then got diffed naturally. The babies were fine, the pregnant TTC-er just broke me for some reason - maybe because she's made it through to the other side and I'm still weebling away on the childless side of the fence!

Random phone call yesterday from the registrar at the gynae clinic. Apparently she's reviewed my blood tests (6 weeks after I had them done!) and is concerned that there IS something wrong with my hormonal balance (after me having a breakdown at the GP because I'd been told there wasn't). So now not only do I have a pelvic scan, but I also have a HCS booked and DH has to go and get his swimmers tested. I appear to have nagged my way into fertility clinic two months early! So I feel vindicated yah boo sucks to you, bloody GP, but also slightly put out that having just come to terms with the idea that there's nothing wrong with me except bad luck, there actually might be something wrong after all. However, anything that's a step in the direction of getting me diffed is a positive in my book!

Kitty bwahaha, I can just see DH appreciating me in frilly knickers overflowing with egg butties!

Off to find a picture of a fertility statue and rub it in a totally non-mental and normal fashion. Then BED (such a shame when the sun is shining like it is today!)

Rub harder girls!!

ok so anyone had the tail end of a bout of thrush just before shag week commences?

funny pregnancy stuff

Haha I rubbed the 'fertility' picture last month but obviously no luck. Surely it can't hurt to give it another go though because I'm so desperate I will literally try anything

you do realise that rubbing a picture or even the actual statue is ridiculous and makes us officially insane?!!

but yes I have just given it a good old rub! ha ha ha ha!