Moving on to May...Lets get start acting like Spring rabbits for BFPs in May.

Yeah Dutch the ic's don't get progressively darker, random colours until positive, that's why I switched to clearblue digis this month, much easier to read but also much more expensive

Haha chandlers, pleased you're cleaning lady returned

6/7dpo here, bored of the tww now!

For anyone who is intrigued re: bleach and other 'homemade' pregnancy tests...I found this link that made me think of you guys.

www.negativepregnancytest.com/homemade-pregnancy-test/

toothpaste as a pregnancy indicator? Really. Do they seriously think that we're that nutty?

Haha, I like that you lot are just as crazy as I am, I bet everyone tries the bleach now out of curiosity If someone ever roars at me I'll instantly piss myself and start taking penis dragons and green pom poms, lol

Sorry for the really massive sentence and me, me, me post.

Can I ask a question about ic opk's? I'm using them for the first time this month and I naively thought that the line would get progressively darker until it is day before ov day so giving me lots of lead up time to know when ov is coming but then someone mentioned switching to cb ov monitor because it gives lead up time with flashing smilies and ic opk's don't? DH works nights and for half the week we barely see each other so making sure we dtd at the right time is really tricky.

I can just imagine the 'can you see a line' type photos where us crazy ladies have used bleach instead of HPTs...we could call it 'can you see my froth.com'

He he he.

If you ever go round to someone's house and they have a stupidly clean, bleachy toilet, you've either met an undercover MNer or they are just too obsessive about their loo...I'm going to go with the latter and might even be tempted to roar at them and see if they got the connection tbh I think non- -ladies would just think I had lost the plot if I roared at them, which would be about right...and not too different from my normal self LOL...but I would hope that you guys might catch on and roar back! Oh how I'd giggle if that actually happened!

Loving the idea of the Tree of Life tattoo :). My OH has tribal stuff at the mo and is adding bits onto it it to make him look a bit like Terminator...will look quite cool once it's done, but not quite as pretty as a fertility tree .

Bleach update - piac - then used a stick (no line). Then put in same amount of bleach and gave it a swirl. Fizzed up with lots of small bubbles filling container. Not like pictures with lots of big bubbles. Hahaha. Had to give it a whirl.

Chaircat - we just got home from 10 days in Oz! ABSOLUTELY LOVED IT. Would move there in a flash. Are you there permanently? And EnglishGirl how exciting to be going home!! Have heard good things about child rearing in Holland tho too! We are meant to be here for a few more years but it's not working out quite as we thought so may be London-bound in the next year... We shall see!! Being preggo in this humidity would not be fun... It's hot season now and 43 degrees let's hope I'm all done by this time next year hey?!

Rambini... I think I can answer this one. I waited for my first AF after stopping the pill which took 98 days (check that for a long cycle!) and then started using the CBFM straight away. Obvs my cycle is still too long for it to work properly, but it asked for sticks from day 6 until day 2 it got bored of me on day 25. So it asked for 20 consecutive sticks. Which means you'll be fine! Annoying for me as they aren't cheap, and according to OPKs I'm now about to ovulate on day 28. Grr! If I'm on the June bus then I'll try it again next month as the cycles should/seem to be getting shorter so i should catch the egg next month!! Good luck

Morning ladies what a crap night I had last night! Monster children cried the house down all night so I'm a bit like a zombie today Getting my day 21 bloods done this afternoon, hope I don't have to wait long for the results, going by opk and body signs I did ov this cycle but will get checked just to make sure

Rambini - I don't have the newer cbfm but I would think that if it still hasn't seen a peak day it will then continue to ask for more tests. That's how the older one works. Hope that helps

*orange not range lol

Morning I have a question about cbfm. This is our first month using it, so it has no cycle info yet. It wants me to poas every day from day 6 up until the 4th May. Then there are no range squares to tell me to test after that, but according to app on my phone (which has my data from 2 years) I am not ovulating til the 10th May. So I guess my question is, can I test on days where the monitor doesnt want me to test? And is there any point testing this early when I have at least a 36 day cycle and am not due to ovulate til day 22? Thanks! x

Sorry Chandlers, you'll be in the next update . I'm also an expat, although not for long. Done a 6 month stint in Amsterdam. Heading back to the UK in 3 weeks!! Can't wait!! Hopefully i'll be coming back with a bean on board!

chaircat hopefully that eill be the case! I picked this place as its close to my new work and a good primary school but im trying to look for a 2bed place so that we wouldnt have to move again with a little one in tow! gonna trawl estate agents today after gym. to everyone. I didnt eat half a. pack last night honest [roar]

chandler I'm not in the UK either. I'm in australia.

PS: I'm not some weirdo posting from bed in the dead of night by the way, I'm in a different time zone to you lot! GMT+6, Bangkok. Anyone else not in the UK? I asked this on another thread and found 3 other expats!!

PPS: my stats weren't in the round up, was that because I didn't give a date for AF? It's still too hard to predict as my cycles go on for aeons, but the rest is ChandlersFarang, ttc#1, cycle#2 (currently day 30, AF..?!!?!).

lol you lot are entertaining. So good news for those that recall my last post, the cleaner did come back(phew!) and I'd strategically left a pregnancy test box near the bin this time, so instead of a look of absolute disgust at finding a cup of warm piss like last week she just gave me a knowing smile!! . Anyway am still suffering the million-year-long post-pill cycles, but yesterday's OPK test finally showed a faint double line and today it was even darker (I'm on day 30 of cycle #2!)... Cue imaginary champagne corks popping,etc! So thanks to you lot and your ideas I found myself in bed last night full of grapefruit juice, post-DTD in the yoga plough position, and then sleeping with a cushion under my arse with all DH's bad boys trapped in there... Bloody hell... Ha! Good luck all!!

Ha! What have I missed, you're all peeing on bleach?!

Kurama, that is poo, but just think - new place, new start, new baby

Can't believe that we're almost at the end of April already. Who's the first cab off the rank with a BFP in May?

Apparently it goes all frothy and foamy when pg, I just put toilet cleaner in the loo and peed before my bath, had a few bubbles but no where near the amounts of froth that picture said, I'm calling this test inconclusive due to toilet cleaner not bleach and 9 days before AF date. However I am interested to see if there is any change in froth/bubbles over the next few days, hmmmmm may have to experiment with this one, at the very least I'll have a very clean loo!!!!

Linda could be Ib. Fingers crossed!

I've just caught up on both April and May you are all talking about weeing in bleach! ! What craziness is this? I'm definitely going to give it a go when I'm only 8dpo and needing to poas!! I love these threads