Posifrickentivity all round, with a good healthy dash of project desperate. New thread, new luck, new BFPs and Summer 2014 babies all round please! TTC after MC

No fish slap from me Nerdy - Rule 4 applies! Fingers crossed for a sticky bean!

No f'ng clue what's up with this cycle; normally I ov around day 10-12. This time it wasn't until CD22. So technically, if this is one of my "normal" 27-day cycles, I'm due on tomorrow - but with ov this late, it should actually not be due until the 16th, which will be CD36. So if there's no AF by Friday, I probably ought to test - except I'd only be 7dpo so probably nothing would show up anyway.

Argh. WTF, body??

(Also, haven't been around much because I'm doing NaNoWriMo this year and am currently 19,000 words in and likely to hit the 50K target by the 15th at this rate....)

Oooh! nerdybird that's so exciting!!! Congrats. Am pleased for you - especially given your crazy long cycle... Yay, that gives me a glimmer of hope actually!

I accept all fish slaps! I was trying very hard to wait but for some reason just did it this morning. We are out tonight so I think I must have had half a mind on whether I should drink or not.

Anyway. Did another IC at work, fainter line but still there and of course it is not fmu.
DTD wise I didn't do anything special I'm afraid. I had been carrying on using OPKs and made sure we DTD at least once when I got a positive on those but actually I'd been thinking to myself we probably weren't doing it enough.

But it's early days and who knows if this one will stick around, am trying not to be too excited, but don't want to worry too much either!

Af arrived here. :(
Congrats nerdy !!! And after the no af show! I echo aly what did you do dtd wise??

I had a dream last night that I found out I was pregnant. an omen??

oooooooh nerdy!!!! that's fantabulous news.
for being naughty and not even waiting for 14dpo, let alone friday.
how often did you dtd around the critical time? curious since your cycle was so long, had you sort of given up? or were you still religiously dtd at every opportunity?

got my fingers crossed for you too thatssofunny

sal i'm glad that your chromosomes came back normal, and that DHs swimmers were looking a bit more perky. How long will you have to wait for the recurrent mc appointment?

Well. Randomly tested this morning, as FF has me at 13dpo and I thought if they are right and I did ov, then surely it would show up if something had happened.

I got a BFP. This time standing for Bloody Faint Positive!
Only on internet cheapie though. Given that I've always had negatives from them before, I'm hoping its real.

Not sure if I should buy a FR at lunchtime?

Hi all

ruggle I'd say a positive of any kind is a step in the right direction. Can't help you on the faintness though. My BFPs were all pretty clear and still ended in MC.

Commiserations to those with AF, although perversely I wish I could join you! Today was cd63...bored now!

sal glad your tests were ok and that you'll now get more investigations.

Hi,...it's been a while. Hope everyone is doing ok so far...

Had mc at the beginning of July, and it seemed to take forever to get back to anything resembling "normality". My cycles are still a tad erratic. Last ones were 21 days and 24 days. They used to be about 31-34 days long, so this has taken some getting used to. Any idea whether they are going to stay this way for long?

However, I do seem to be late. It could, of course, be nothing...and just my cycles getting back to how they used to be. I'm pretty sure I'm now on 14 dpo, though,...which is weird, since even in the short cycles, my lp is generally 12 days. I've had the weird "shit, am I pregnant?"-feeling since early last week...my ribs are hurting again and I'm slowly going off tea (I generally don't leave half a cup...ever).

I'm utterly terrified of testing and have no intention of doing so until I would at least be 6 weeks on - which is when I mc'ed last time. (At the same time, I'm expecting AF to announce herself any day...) The worst thing is, I'm possibly more worried about a positive result than a negative one.

I'm sorry ruggle I've got no clue. Haven't had a cp - only af turning up over and over again (since mc in feb).

Sorry for af daisy. I hope they do refer you for piece of mind. But try to remember that trying for a year is really common trying to remember that myself

Hi Ruggle, I don't have any useful advice but really hope your positive sticks.

Sorry to hear that Daisydoo. We've only been going through this for 6 months and it's really hard, I can't imagine another 6. I do wonder if I should try harder, as in temping / ov sticks etc. On one hand I worry that I'll get obsessed/stressed about it if I do that, but then I feel like I'm getting that way anyway!

Ah well, tomorrow's another day.

Sorry ruggle I can't help. My experience in that regard hadn't been positive :-( hope it's a stick anomaly for you.

I have AF here. That's 10 cycles of ttc which includes 2 cp's. Think I'm all out of positivity. Got to do DH's tests now then go to GP together and I get the impression they'll refer us now as it's almost a year. Think I'm ready to embrace some drugs to get this thing started. Just Hope it helps. Feeling more and more these days that wonderful DS may be only child and I may have to learn to adjust to that.

Sorry for downbeat post!

Hello!

I posted on the previous incarnation of this thread not realising there's a new one.
Anyhow, I had a mmc at the end of July. Last Wednesday I got a faint positive on a FR stick (yep..I know it's not in the rules to test on a Weds, but it was the first day I had an inkling...after being hellishly grumpy all day). So the following day I tested again and it was a bit darker. I tested every day (yep, I know...I shouldn't have)...and got a 1-2 weeks on a CB digi. Well, since then, I have continued to get faint positives on FR, but tried a Superdrug stick which showed a line so faint it might not have even been there. Tried another, same thing. In a panic I bought some more FR sticks, and still yesterday it showed a faint (but definite) positive. I am saving my second CB digi until Friday.....but I have a feeling that it's going to end in AF returning, sadly.

Has anyone else experienced a run of faint positives for over a week that didn't end in a chemical or miscarriage?
I've done a lot of googling and it doesn't look good. Technically my period isn't late until tomorrow....but it does feel like it's coming.

Welcome newbies, I hope that your stay is short.

Been away and just catching up with everyone.

Sorry to hear Af has arrived moomin, mine is due on Thursday but seems to be putting in an early appearance . I was sure this was going to be our month (but then I am every month).

Good luck sal let us know what happens.

Sorry af got you moomin, I found the first few days of af always the most upsetting but hang in there.

Keeping fx for you aly, I hope this is going to be your lucky thread!

The vegan coming for Xmas is my sil's new bf, and did I also mention he is allergic to eggs??? FFS - you couldn't even make it up!!
I was all set to just give him a bread roll and water but apparently there is hope...he likes tomatoes and eats tomato sandwiches. I wonder if Jamie Oliver has a good recipe for that!!

I forgot to say earlier: misschord i'm suffering from the same FF affliction so can't help you

sal good luck and don't forget to tell us what the doc says. Loving the DH and the bathroom story. haha. men are useless. completely useless.

a vegan who doesn't like vegetables?? what on earth will you fed them sundance? Water? that's safe.

sorry for af moomin. totally stay in bed today if you can.

temp shot up this morning, so I guess I ov'd yesterday. There's a tiny little part of me that hopes that actually I did ov when I normally do, had a very slow rise, and that this temp spike actually indicates implantation. I'm trying very, very, very hard to ignore that possibility though.
If I did ov yesterday we probably missed the fertile window, so I guess i'm out for this month, damnit.

Well AF has arrived, I've got period pain and there's no paracetamol in the house. It's also raining. AIBU to wish I could just stay in bed?! Fed up of the disappointment. I wish I could go back to a time where all of this didn't matter so much.

Good luck today Sal.

sundance was feeling v miserable this morning then your catering task did make me chuckle!! Hope you get af soon.
Good luck sal let us know how you get on
Re those with charts showing you haven't ovulated, mine did that but I 'discarded' one anomaly temp (morn after excessive wineage) and it decided then that I did in fact ovulate... If I now undiscard that temp it's still decided I've ovulated! Temps been on decline last few days so just waiting for af now...

Keep us 'posted' Sal!!

Welcome newbies, sorry you find yourselves here but you're in good company.

Good luck at the docs tomorrow Sal, hope it goes okay and you get some constructive help....keep us

4 weeks post mc and still no signs of af!! Don't you just live these wtf cycles?!

Oh yeah, and our quiet Christmas with no family that we've been planning for the last year, has now somehow ended up with us hosting Christmas Eve 'drinks and nibbles', I have to cater for 14 people, including 2 who don't eat carbs or sugar, 2 coeliacs and a vegan who doesn't like vegetables!!!

Welcome all newbies!

Aly I have no idea what has gone on with this cycle for me either. I had ewcm from day 12 and a + opk on day 15. I had a temp drop too on day 14 just before the + opk and then a steady rise to today 23 and ff still doesn't think I've ovulated! So frustrated, dtd daily from day 12 to 17 then gave up as ewcm dried up and I was quite frankly knackered! Starting to get pmt symptoms so I don't think all the shagging is working anyway!

I've got a scan on Saturday to check that everything is ok and there isn't anything Undiagnosed going on eg endometriosis etc. I've got a feeling all will be ok, like my 21 day bloods which is good but doesn't make me any wiser as to why nothing's happening in the baby dept!

Maca is some kind of herb and the root is supposed to promote fertility, particularly in men (doubling motility in some cases) but also for women. Farmers use it for breeding animals! If you Google it there's lots of info and you can get capsules from health food shops or Ebay.

Somebody please persuade me that opening up the FertilityFriend app several times a day will not actually make the 2ww tick by any faster.