TTC After MC: The home of hopeful nipples, ovulation eyes and the most determined Mummawannabees around. Chin up, tits out!

Congratulations Lacy this thread is awesome

Wow! Another BFP! Congrats Lacey!!
And glad you got your peak Sebs , enjoy your dirty tith sessions!! Greedy cow
Despite my positive OPKs ... No temp shift. not sure how much more of my body being a cunt I can take...

Yay for bfps, opk peaks and holidays! Happy Friday all!

Congratulations boba and Lacey. How fabulous . Wishing you both very boring and textbook pregnancies.

Well I have woken up to a lovely peak reading on my CBFM so I will be ovulating tomorrow on cd13 which is my norm. Don't know if anyone remembers but my OH booked today off work so we could be dirty buggers twice lol. Is worked out perfectly timing wise, I'm praying this is our month.

Wow another 2 BFPs - well done Lacey and Boba. Fingers crossed you will both have the most boring uneventful textbook pregnancies in history!
I am still waiting for my hormones to do something .... anything! Don't care if it is ovulation or af to be honest, just give me a sign that I'm still alive!!!

A couple of weeks ago, in an effort to take control of something in my life, I have decided to try and get fit. So I downloaded the couch to 5k app and I have been coming home from work, getting into my sports bra and pounding the treadmill. I haven't noticed any difference in my weight yet but I do feel more positive about life in general and I am sure I am sleeping better. Every little helps and all that.
Happy Friday to everyone - it's the last day of school term here so I get 2 whole weeks off work! Hurrah!!

Yay! Congrats boba and lacey hope the next 9 months pass quickly and are uneventful :)

Congrats Lacey and Boba! Thanks for keeping this thread so lucky and crossing everything for you both

So I poas'd as I said and got a very very faint bfp! Very happy and also terrified!!!!!
Congrats boba!

Congratulations Boba

Glad you got a bfn Cake, get yourself some tith if you've got a bear positive OPK!

Congratulations Boba, stick around here as long as you feel necessary! Hope it's super sticky

Gosh this what a chatty bunch you have been....

Congratulations boba and a sardine slap as it clearly isn't Friday [sceptical] I have got everything (even legs as nowhere near the right time) for you and the rest of our BFP lurker a

sebs one of my friends had her DC 5 weeks early all was looking god then they found a problem with his bowel and he died a 8 days. I have no idea how she kept going. But she did and she actually seems to be ok. Desperate to try again but DH not so keen (I don't think he handling it nearly as well was she is) It does put things in perspective. I am amazed by how resilient people are

Happy anniversary broody Hope that is the end of you passing clots that sounds awful

Boo to crappy docs. You would think they'd have some sort of compassion.

Anyone POAS tomorrow?

Wow, this is a turning out to be a very lucky thread - congratulations Boba! And fx for a healthy 9 months to come.

(Guess I better grab DH for some TITH tonight if I want some of that luck to rub off... )

Thanks Cake!
I'm trying to be optimistic (have joined the antenatal thread and everything), but my least favourite thing about mc (aside from the actual mc!) is it takes away the innocence and excitement that you should feel getting pregnant. It must be lovely thinking 'Ooh I'm pregnant=I'm having a baby'.

Will be keeping fingers crossed for tomorrows testers!

Yippee, you're forgiven boba, congratulations!

What a bastard GP Otters. Glad you complained.

Happy Wedding Anniversary Broody

'Glad' for the BFN cakebaker, enjoy the wine.

Forgive me threaders for I have sinned and poas, bfp, so I'm going to stick around here, but also pop my head into the grads thread to say hello again.

Just checking in, wow this thread moves so fast so I'm sorry if I've missed anyone's big news, any poas-ers tomorrow?

sebs that's so bloody awful for your friend, I hope she's getting all the love and support she needs. I know what you mean about putting things in perspective, someone I vaguely know through a toddler group just lost her baby at 35 weeks I barely know her but sat balling my eyes out for her in a quiet moment today, it's just so awful.

jet like you I have tonnes of ewcm, lord knows what's going on but I guess this is why they call it the wtf cycle.

carly if it's any consolation my dh sounds very similar to yours. He takes the keep as busy as possible approach and is the classic stereotype when it comes to talking emotions, just struggles so much with it (partly due to family background, partly just being a bloke!) I ended up really yelling at him the other evening which was not my finest hour, but he did end up saying he felt whatever he said wasn't right so he thought it best not to say anything...which made me realise I have been very cold and quite distant with him, so it's never simple. It's a tough time for everyone and I'm sure you will come out the other side of it.

broody so sorry your AF is so grim and what a shame on your wedding anniversary too. Here's hoping you are upduffed by the next one

otters and cake sorry your gps are such tossers!

So yesterday was the first day I had no brown sludge since erpc 2 weeks ago, so so relieved. Plucked up the courage to poas today and it was bfn, good news obviously but had that low feeling too. As I've been having masses of this ewcm stuff I thought I may as well try an ov stick too, and got a very very strong line, not as much as control but nearly. So wtf ladies? Is it possible I could be ov'ing?? Tbh I'd just like some normal tith this month, I just can't face the 'trying' yet.

Sorry to go on forever! Right, I'm off for

Omg otters that is completely insensitive of your GP as well!!! Effing bitch.

I've had another big load of clots remove themselves from my insides this afternoon. Wonderful timing - just as our lunch arrived! I moved to give dd a bit of crusty bread (her current obsession ie one of the only things she eats!) and it just oozed out. Had to waddle ever so unladylike to the loo past loads of other diners and boy when I sat on loo I realised I had my pad in my hand all the way from my table. Classy.

So it's Not quite the set up for the kinky wedding anniversary I had planned for DH tonight but hopefully this is AF and she will eff off soon so we can... Reconnect

hello everyone,

Sorry I have not checked in recently - I have missed out on a lot !

penguin and cake please don't worry. The symptoms come and go, so AM you may think you have no symptoms but PM they may come back. How many weeks are you? 5 weeks? Do you have any EPU locally that you can self refer to? If you are in London, there are quite a few, so you can just go yourself if you are concerned. They do not ask you why you are there, they see and scan everyone. Whilst 5 weeks is v. early for some reassurance - they do see people early on and may recommend blood tests if they feel necessary to monitor your hcg.

sebs that is a very sad story. we should count ourselves lucky and especially for those of us who already have one. I have also prepared myself, that we may not be able to give a sibling to our little one.

metal fantastic on the ewcm front. Hopefully your cb will comply and give you a positive as well tomorrow :)

otters, cake what insensitive GPs. Don't they have any social training? !!

completely agree with you otters on not letting ttc rule your life. I have done that already for one year and now starting to move on - and hoping that I will stop obsessing over it. I also need to start looking for a new job. I always imagined I would not need to as I would be on maternity leave and would then decide my next steps after that....

As for me - 3 weeks on mc#2 the reddish spotting continues. I had my hcg privately tested and it is still at around 200. The consultant thinks its fairly low and that its just taking its time to drop. I have to go back to get it re-tested in a week's time. Hopefully it will have fallen by then. Otherwise I suspect I may have retained tissue. Hope not, and everything resolves itself over this week.

I hope everyone else is well. Good luck to poasers tomorrow.

God, that sounds like a battle and a half! Thanks for sharing (sorry if i came across like a nosey mare). You must be so frustrated by it all.I really hope that you don't need to move on to the injections. It's all such a long path.

English I was prescribed it by the fertility clinic. I was referred to the fertility clinic by my GP after not getting my periods back after a year of coming off contraception. At my first FC appointment they sent me away for a couple of months where I had to provide weekly pee samples which 'proved' I wasn't ovulating. I had other tests, hcg, bloods etc which all came back normal.

The FC put me on Clomid for an initial 6 months, after 5 months I got my bfp. After my mmc I went back to the FC who told me to start the Clomid again for a further 7 months as protocol there is that as long as you respond to the Clomid (i.e ovulate) then you try it for 12 months in total.

I have 3 more shots left with Clomid. If I don't get upduffed by the end of that then they will move me onto Gonal-f injections, again to induce ovulation. I get 6 months of injections then it's IUI or IVF. I need to argue for them to put me on the waiting lists for these at my next FC in May.

It's exhausting and I'm fed up to be honest. But, the Clomid does work for me. I've ovulated every time with it.

Otters - Hope you don't mind me asking but... Did your gp put you on clomid or was that after a referral to fertility clinic? I'm thinking that clomid could be a route for me if I continue on this weird anovulatory path. And I've read most people are on it for 6 months, what is the next plan of action for you? Obviously I hope this month you get your sticky bean and you don't need to go there.

Metalhead when I was offed my new job last week I was convinced I was going to get a bfp a few days later. Like, properly convinced. I didn't, and I've decided that I can't let ttc rule my life. But that's just my feelings, coloured by over two years of trying for my first. Do what feels right for you

Sebs That's such a sad story. My best friend's sister lost her second child during labour and I really don't know how she copes. Women are so strong, even if we sometimes don't feel that way

GPs can really be a bit crap can't they cakes. I saw a new GP a couple of weeks after my mmc who hadn't bothered to read my notes. She asked if I was pregnant . Then said something along the lines of 'oh, well some women just can't carry babies to term easily' . I told her she was an insensitive f**k and walked out of the room and logged a complaint there and then.

CD2 for me today and AF is killing me. Clomid starts again tonight. Woo-bloody-woo.

Morning Ladies,

Sebs... that poor lady. I can't imagine ever going through that and coming out the other side. I hope she's got some support around her.

Cakes and Penguin - fingers and toes crossed for you here. Can't believe what your gp said. Insensitive bitch. I think I was really lucky with my gp when I went, she was pregnant herself so was really emphatic.

Broody - hope this is just af. And that she buggers off soon!!

Metal - I think you have to do what feels right for you. Take the job and roll with it. Fingers crossed for you.

No news here.... twiddles thumbs

God cakes what a cow! She really does need some training. Really hope that for both you and penguin this is just a blip and all is well with both, got everything crossed for you x

Broody glad you managed to talk to the EPU, hopefully this is your period and nothing more sinister. Sounds pretty scary with the huge clots.

hippo I hope you get some answers from your GP tomorrow, it seems like a long time to bleed.

sebs so sorry to hear about your mum's colleague, that's just awful. As terrible as mc is, I think to give birth and then have a baby or child die must be so much worse.

Cakes and Penguin I have everything crossed for you that the spotting and lack of symptoms aren't anything to worry about. I can imagine how hard it must be though not to panic. And I can't believe your GP said that Cakes, I would be inclined to make a complaint as well! What a moron.

Fx for you tomorrow Lacey!

As for me, I got a very strong line on the IC opk today and am almost dripping with cm (sorry TMI!). Clearblue still didn't show me a smiley face but it means I should ov in the next day or two.

However, I've now completely got my knickers in a twist over whether to skip this month or not as I had my interview yesterday and I think it went quite well. If I got the job, and if I got pregnant now, I'd only be there for about 8 months and would have to get my head around all the new stuff while possibly feeling sick very day. It would also give me a due date of Xmas Day, which I really don't like! I know that's an awful lot of if's but I just can't decide what to do. Gah!