The March Bus is rolling through Spunkland stopping for BFPs only!

Sparkly, can you miss tonight and AI in the morning? I can't see all this masturbating is good for the spermz Mind you, we'll be exactly the same cum next week (see what I did there?)

Nomio, I honestly read that as: ..I have just pulled DH's pork.

Heir! Hoorah! I've been asking after you and didn't realise you were on your hols. Sex every day when you're on holiday is just the best Nice to see you again, too, Victoria.

Has anyone read the 'news' today regarding the average length of a man's penis being 5.3 inches? When erect??! I honestly don't remember more than a handful of my lovers having one that small and I've been with hundreds plenty. Or does that just sound small? Perhaps they were all five inches and I was just tight-vagina'd back in the day. Or else all the drugs made them look big

Sammy, you need to try and quit that kind of thinking, my love. You feel defeated because your period has arrived and all the accompanying hormones are horribly unhelpful. Try to stay positive, lovely. It will happen for you

All your teas sound yummy. Tessie, I won't be eating the pie myself, unfortunately, as the BBC Good Food recipe included six boiled eggs quartered and 'nestled between the chunks of chicken'. I would rather gouge my own eyes out than eat a boiled egg so I will be having my dark & sticky lamb & sausage stew with mash, roasties & veg. Th'usband will undoubtedly have frozen chips with his chicken pie and an indeterminable amount of Warburtons thick toastie bread

We went to Egypt Tessie - I am now being made sad by putting all the summer clothes back away and having to wear a proper coat after days in 28 degrees!

As we're indulging in dinner chat, we'll be having spaghetti mixed with pesto, a bit of chicken and whatever veg most needs using up (an elderly leek I think and possibly courgette) Tempted to come have dinner with some of you lot instead!

Afternoon you talkative lot!!

Well no more brown cm showing when I wipe, but a few stomachy cramps. Wish my body would make up its blood mind whether I am about to have a AF or a BFP!

This even my DH and I are having Cheese and crackers! Not the most exciting dinner but we really love it. Tomorrow is going to be far more exciting as we're having homemade pasties! can take a cornish boy and girl out of cornwall but can't take the cornish out of them!

Juney Sorry Plan C sounds like a creep, I had hope he just meant that he wanted you to get him some dirty mags but now I'm assuming he wanted you to help the situation.

Sammy lovely, sorry you are having a rough spell. It's an awful feeling. But you are 100% not a failure. Look at it the other way.. You are actually a very Strong lady!.. You have determination, you are not giving up.. And you obviously have faith (rightly so..) that you will get your BFP! Those are amazing qualities and you have them all.. So stay positive like we all know you can. It's coming!! BFP time for you very soon!

Baked sweet potatoes with homemade baked beans for us :)

Spinning I want your dinner. Now!
I think I'm having butternut squash and spinach risotto.. Brown risotto rice Obvs. It's exciting as I've been eating mush for days now! Ha. I do love a curry! Do you use coconut milk or dairy?

Arhhhh Heir we wondered where you had got to!! So a lovely hol? Sounds like you are in with a Great chance this month! Fingers crossed!!!

Spinning yeh should be alright shouldn't it? Did they tell you a timeframe in cycle you should have the scan?

Knitfast same predicament here! We have done six days in a row cd10-15 as now cd16 I'm thinking we should do again tonight as per smep as I had two positive OPKs-cd13 and 14.. I'm not sure whether to do tonight and Tomor or miss tonight and do Tomor! So yeh- I can't help you but I hear your confusion!! Ha I think I'm gonna have to ask dh to keep going a la Purds advice. Just not sure how long for!!!

Afternoon lovely ladies.

sammy, you are most definitely not a failure. I know how much it knocks your confidence when it is taking a long time, but you are a lovely person and you will get your baby.

We are having cubed potatoes roasted with garlic & herbs. I have pulled pork for DH & Quorn burgers for me & some nice veggies. Not eaten much today & I am starting to get really hungry.

Afternoon ladies, we're having vegetable & chorizo lasagne (recipe from Good Food magazine) as it's packed full of good stuff apparently. I don't really like chorizo but my poor DH (who loves it) is being expected to, ahem, perform AGAIN tonight. He has a really stressful job & I do feel bad for pouncing on him all the time or trying to schedule a pouncing in!

Sammy I second what genni says, you are NOT a failure. Here, have some , I hope they make you smile

I don't even care if I gave birth in December near Christmas or July/August anymore...really not important

Sounds as though you had a fab time away Heir, where did you go? Fx for the very well timed dtd!

Oooh chicken, bacon and leek pie sounds scrummy Purdey What will you have with it? Nosey....

Oh and re planning - that went out the window after about 3 months. first I wanted a baby by Christmas, then before I was 34 and now with all those long gone, I'd just like one full stop. Any month will do me! I'm not fussy.

hi sammy sorry you're feeling low. You're not a failure and you will get there x

afternoon all

trixie hello. hope all good your end except pmt - ugh.

juney sorry to hear about plan c. Fx plan d comes your way asap

I remember mama. She was lovely. She was one of the first people (along with spinning) to give me a warm welcome all those months ago. I'm sorry she has not yet got her bfp. I often wonder about her and about choccy too and if they got their long awaited bfps.

chicken pie sounds yum - we have homemade pizza is it wrong that I'm so excited

Woah that's a lot of posts!
Hope everyone is ok?

I've been stuck in a miserable place inside my own head feeling like a failure as a wife and woman again hence being pretty much absent - but the cloud is starting to lift a bit, hoping you ladies can cheer me up!

I'm having chilli con carne with baked potato tonight, mmmmm! Xx

I'm having sweet potato and lentil curry with spinach but I love chicken pie and now I want that!

I think lots of teachers plan when they'd like a baby but of course when They get started they realise you can't plan everything!

Hello all, I have been attempting to catch up but as you guys managed to clock up over 40 pages of thread whilst I was on holiday I have given up and come straight here.

So we had a wonderful lazy time, dtd every day of holiday bar one and have continued to do so... Temps and opk agree I ov'd on CD19 (today is CD22) and for once I think we have done lots of shagging at totally the right time. So, everything crossed I suppose! Two babies were born to friends whilst I was away, Facebook is awash with photos and I am and

I'm with you on Ovia being annoying! It's all 'you had sex! Great job!' And I don't think it uses the temperatures for anything except a pretty line on the chart, they don't seem to tell you anything useful.

Whoa, I look away for a minute and miss everything!

Juney Does he not know how to use the internet?! What a douche!

I will have to try to catch up properly with what's going on...

Babybump I adore Ben and Jerry's. You have suffered a travesty!!!

Boris in our org internal policies state that for IVF and other fertility treatments it is expected that the employee use a reasonable number of days leave using annual leave or unpaid leave during the course of the treatment or where possible to work flexibly in line with the service needs until the point of pregnancy when this will then be managed in accordance with the organisation’s Maternity Policy where you get paid time off for appointments. But I don't know about any official guidance.

I thought I could organise my conception/pregnancy etc and was planning on missing a month to avoid a December baby (because I am a self-confessed control freak) - that quickly went out the window, we are so desperate already that I couldn't care less when we give birth - but was very aware career wise that as I changed employer I needed to wait fo financial reasons.

Purds Please share your pie, I didn't get anything out the freezer this morning and think DP will kill me if I suggest beans on toast....

So do I count the day of ov as 1dpo?

It was this one. I try and pace myself with it and I set it down to soften a bit more and then suddenly it was bedtime and it was forgotten. I admit I put it in the freezer this morning... I couldn't look at it all sad and melty :(

10dpo, Wotsits.

What're y'all having for tea? I've made a chicken, bacon and leek pie.