Come one, come all: hop onboard the penis dragon bus and hold on tight for your BFP in April! PART 2!!

Blimey Nordic what a journey. My god you're very brave.

I've found my mumsnet grip and given myself a firm taking to. I miss the dc terribly when they aren't here. Before ds was born I used to turn all the tv & music on as they walked out the door. I couldn't bare the silence. It's hard as the older 2 don't really want to go. But it's important they have a relationship with their dad, so I make them. They might thank me in 20 years

Aargh lost my post . Basically the steroids are meant suppress your immune system and if you have too high levels of natural killer cells stop your body from rejecting the pregnancies . Long story short , didn't work for me and instead coming of steroids distroyed my health

wow nordic you have been so much i really hope you get your wish soon x can i ask what they thought the prednisalone would do? as ive been on them for around 15 years. but mine are for my arthritis. are they really suppost to help?

...they were also give me the progesterone i seem to remember if I got further with the steroids but all those 3 miscarriages were right after getting a positive .

Yes I was on the aspirin and prednisolone with a Harley Street miscarriage specialist ( quite well known and often mentioned on other threads which makes me so angry) for 3 cycles but I had 3 more miscarriages regardless and was feeling very unwell on the steroids so we told him we were done after total 10 misscarriages and every test under the sun coming back normal . I think the intralipids were the remaining option but I had enough . I withdrew from the steroids slowly according to instructions but became sick never the less with what was found out to be 9 m later secondary addrenal insufficiency . The steroids basically ditroyed any normal adrenal function for life for me so I've really paid the price. We went to a final consultation to tell him we were done and considering surrogacy . He was very against it not that went there to ask his opinion on that . Well we got on with it and 2 1/2 y later our biological daughter was born but through a surrogate. Can't do the international surrogacy right now ( for one in total it must have cost well over £100 000 legal costs etc are very high ) and in England there's different problems with it so wanted to see if a miracle would happen and then try ivf on myself since I never did and we did manage to have dd through it but by someone else. Maybe it could work on me, maybe the problem is something if could fix. God this is complicated . I'm so jealous of anybody with a normal health but very grateful for the children I've got just would give nearly anything to get my health back . I must be crazy trying all this again but dd has brought us all such joy after years of misery and despair and I saw it was possible ,that I would really love just one more little person to join our family :)!

Its quiet on here tonight. Anyone POAS tomorrow?

I think its 5 days Nordic, could be wrong though!

My boobs are so sore! Sorry tmi again. Im wondering if with a short lp id find out early or do you still implant the same time and then just have problems after? Annoyed that i only just know i have a short lp.

Nordic I don't know how you've managed to battle on after so much disappointment. Is there nothing they can do to encourage a sticky bean? Did you ever try aspirin or something else anything else that's a bit more clever. Not recommending just wondering?

I've still got watery cm. although I had full smily Thursday and dtd that afternoon. I had really bad ov pain yesterday and today and did nothing. Hoping a little swimmer might still be alive in there battling its way towards the egg. Did I read correctly that sperm can live up to 7 days? We dtd quite a bit on the run up to ov, but school holidays always play havoc with time and energy.

If not successful ttc this month I'm going to have a couple of months off. My dsis wasn't able to have any more dc after her only ds. Her birthday and his are in jan and feb. I just can't bare the fall out if I was successful it would cause a family rift again. I don't want to upset her again. She would think I was trying to over shadow her.

We only dtd twice this cycle MrsEx . With me I've previously conceived easily and always just dtd once or twice at the right dates . Nowadays not conceiving so easily but I think the timing is the most important and I'm using an opk and can tell when I ovulate I reckon based on the pain etc . I think you've got a chance and so do I :)...
Going a bit mental here . Been so nauseous again breasts are more sore every day .makes me paranoid and hopeful . I wish I could fast forward a week or so ...at least DH is back and putting the kids to bed . I'm stuck sitting in various places can't really get going with dishes or anything am super tired . Hungry but nauseous ,odd combination ...

Thanks ladies! Having a few silent tears to myself. Watched 4 of my dc drive off for a week at 5.30. And it's ds2s bday on Sunday. I'm going to miss it. Downed tools today to make him an emergency early bday cake with early pressies, but the sadness is a bit much tonight. I just feel a bit bereft. Dhs and my ds is a complete daddy's boy and I just feel like my arms are a bit empty. Ds2 was born on a Sunday and he's 11 on sunday.

Worried we've missed the window. Despite a good start this month dtd pittered off. Although shattered yesterday I tried to get dh to understand but he didn't get the importance. I've just lost the momentum now too. had smily on 14. Dtd on 14. Not on 15. Chances are slim today on 16. I'm so fed up!

Fortunately I only bought myself a mini bottle of wine. But I'm going to have it I feel so low.

Come on ladies we need some happy news

I second Linda... Enjoy a drink or two now while you can.
Booooo MrsE, that sucks

Sorry MrsEx !

Holiday cancelled work overwhelming. Life's not fair sometimes

Sounds like a good plan Treacle, enjoy your evening

Hehe thanks linda :)

Turns out I dont need to think about it anyway! dlDH is home and has said we will go next week after we know one way or another and just have a takeaway today. May still have a glass of wine...

Treacle I would go out and have fun, you never know when you will get the chance again And I'm sure it's already been mentioned on here before that there's no risk to baby until after implantation. Get some down you

Thank you :) I dunno what to think. If i dont drive, we will get through a bottle each probably.

Ho hum.

Thanks treacle . I'm sure a class of something wouldn't hurt if u wanted to celebrate but I know what you mean , I'm at two minds about taking my diclofenac when i've felt really sick and paracetamol doesn't seem to help . I did the other day but if I'm nearing poss imp i dont want to really . I've felt what i thought was very localiced imp pain around 5/6 dpo last two cycles and now on day 4/5 dpo . Aargh this isn't fun ...Congrats to your DH :)!
Foolishly just had to google my due date and it gave 31.12 as in New Years funnily. Well not that I'll succeed but if I did it'll be a section before that so doesn't matter . Will not agree to book a Christmas one though ...

Nordic, rest up. Hope you feel better soon!

My holiday is here, yay! :)

Right ladies, need some advice. DH has just been promoted and we were going to go for a meal and lots of wine. However, I am 5dpo and unsure. Do i drive, or just go as normal? :/

Sorry to those AF got .
Thanks Choccy , good luck to u too :)! I think u and me need it !!!
Damn 2ww I feel so nauseous again now and my boobs are ridic sore and am running to the toilet all the time and but am only maybe 4-5 dpo . Bloody hell. The cold's killing me , have a horrible cough etc and am scared to take anything more than a paracetamol . Luckily dh is taking the kids to his parents this weekend ( poor thing is just getting sick and has to run a rescue boat at a sailing club all day tomorrow , I don't envy him !!)so I can have a proper rest after running around with my parents last week and this week from one activity to another during school holidays . Really wanted to go on a holiday to somewhere nice but first had to wait for mine and dd's passports and then forget any last minute plans due to this cold . Dh is promising a really nice trip for summer but that's so far away :(

Hi all! Can someone please remove me from the stats when they are next updated? AF came bang on time but I'm strangely positive about it all and am on the May bus now (thanks for posting the link)

Congrats to the BFP's - I hope there are many more. I'll be watching this thread and cheering you on!

Morning people,

I am trying very hard not to poas very very very hard

AF due wed/thursday if a 28 day cycle as normal it can vary a day or so though.

Had weird pins and needles pain in stomach for 3 days.

Has a little bit of creamy cm yesterday and quite a bit today.

Mega tired today as well and bottom of backs quite tender.

please please let this all be because im pg

Sorry to every one that AF got

Im quite scared to tell my Dh to but only because when we first got together he said he would run if he ever found out i was pg lol

Hope everyone is good today

Don't be too hard on yourself, Lemon - if we don't have hope, there is not a lot left to help us cope

Ok, possibly a pre-ovulation SYMPTOM that I want to check if is normal or not...Last night, had a really really loud gargling tummy - even DH asked what was up! I started having twinges on left side and felt my heartbeat in my tummy too. I do remember having a loud gargling tummy last cycle after AF ended. Currently on blank circle on CB digis and CD11.

Does this happen to anyone else?

these are the ones I have just bought 50 of

I must confess, I am also poas addict! Even though I'm only on cd10 and having just come off the pill ( from previous experience I know full well I am not likely to ov this month) i will still be checking on a daily basis!!