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Thread 8, TTC #1. Change my FW one more time Ovia, I dare you! TMI Warning throughout.

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StarkyTheDirewolf · 26/01/2016 14:09

Symptom spotters, tww - ers, slightly hysterical hormone laden ladies! Regs, lurkers, intermittent posters! Our raison d'etre is 'am I pregnant?' Depending on how much Ovia (Whybird) has pissed us off/messed with our fw she is either the oracle or a sanctimonious charlatan.

Just a warning, we move FAST! Our threads last on average, about a week before they're full.

Thread 8 , Welcome one and all! Group of weirdos, wee hoarders, covert opk or okp, depending on what your autocorrect decides addicts with a side business in CM management!

We do not judge, we enjoy TMI, we i encourage waiting to poas nobody listens and all the grossness you can find from a group of intelligent, articulate ladies. Fart stories make us laugh, stories about cervical mucus, pooing, cysts and nausea equally welcome. Although normal conversation is also encouraged.

Post your stats and add your dates. We have a register thanks to kat a resident piss stick queen runner loaaaaaads of bfp'ers who keep us positive! We don't have rules, we love a good symptom spot, we try to stay grounded and not be hysterical sometimes we manage it aswell

We like acronyms, we make some up: PET = Proper expensive test. We love the d(h)...which can of course mean 'dearest' or 'dickhead' why, what were you thinking?

Thread 8, TTC #1. Change my FW one more time Ovia, I dare you! TMI Warning throughout.
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Mileymoocow · 27/01/2016 07:13

starky I'm with you on the rocking chair. I looove them but Christ why are they so expensive? Also can you come and decorate my nursery seeing as how you're all organised and stuff. I wouldn't know what colour to paint as we're keeping the sex of the first a surprise so it's going to have to be bright or neutral. No pink or blue in sight!

Morning miw! I'm 1 day til af I think and I feel yucky and af-like! How are you?

miwelaisjacydo · 27/01/2016 06:40

Morning everyone how are we all today?

choc how are you feeling?
Am almost at end of TWW. I recon FW is on way. TWW is such a bitch isn't it!!!!

StarkyTheDirewolf · 26/01/2016 23:55

planet basically it's just ikea! A cot and a changing table. The carpet will stay the same --it's sort of gold/brown, and I'd magnolia wash all the walls. And do bright colours for accessories! I make name bunting and I'm doing a load of blankets in loads of colours now so I'm ready for any eventuality! I love the idea of doing a pastel colours baby room. Pale leafy green, duck egg blue, lavender, peach and pink have been my "inspirations" on pinterest!

One thing I'd love but they cost a small fortune is a rocking chair! Grin Ive been collecting bits in the sale and pinning natural baby things!

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Planeteer · 26/01/2016 23:38

Starky There was a blog post I read on Rock My Style which was basically plucked FROM MY BRAIN re decor. Lots of greys and chevrons and cool stuff that's probably horrifically expensive...

Am trying to be good and not even look until bfp time. Hard though! Do you know what you want? Loving the name Roman btw Smile

StarkyTheDirewolf · 26/01/2016 23:34

Has anyone else got their furniture for the baby's room chosen yet? I know exactly what I want! If I show Dh I know he'll suggest going to buy it though. Might hold off and instead just start finding cloth nappies that I can hoard! Apparently that's common!

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Jamjar12 · 26/01/2016 23:28

Bloody hell, this moved quick!

Can I take 6+4 for choc please? Just to jump on the band wagon :)

Jam
Cycle 3
CD #5
TTC #1

Currently waiting for AF to leave the building so I can pull out my OPKs and get peeing. Resolved not to test until AF is due this month- around the 20th Feb.

DH's Wellman tablets arrived at the weekend and he looked at me with surprise as he'd clearly forgotten the 2 second conversation we'd had about him trying them too. Had to massage his ego by commenting that it's lucky the tablets are so big as they match his... well, you know... He grinned and took his medication like a good boy. Men!!!!!!

Feefeefs · 26/01/2016 23:17

Thanks elle had a big cry tonight and feeling a bit better.

Actually had an argument about it also tonight ever didn't realise there was such a big difference between trying and not trying not too apparently it all to do with the time of day you have sex Hmm

Planeteer · 26/01/2016 23:16

Ha starky I know I shouldn't laugh... But... My DH will occasionally sit making darth Vader noises to make a point. I maintain that I am always entirely reasonable...** Ahem

Also, have just received big old job lot of ic tests, where the instructions are full of warnings not to eat them....Glad to hear there are evidently more confused ppl out there than me

Ni4444 · 26/01/2016 23:10

I hear ya Ever! Science101: saliva contaminated sex makes far more babies than zero sex. Don't even need our thread statician and bean counter to confirm that one!

Closed FW down with one last dtd to be certain. Waiting on my temp to rise...surely tomorrow? Positive opk was Saturday! How long is a piece of string=how long does it take to ovulate!

StarkyTheDirewolf · 26/01/2016 23:08

Whenever I'm in a bad mood and being mildly unreasonable, Dh waits till I'm out of the room and puts this on...

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ImpYCelyn · 26/01/2016 23:00

Ever I'm in a very silly ding mood and imagined that in Darth Vader tones "Imp - I am preseed" GrinGrin I'm so childish

Planeteer · 26/01/2016 22:57

Argh , went out and accidentally had lots of prosecco and now have tons to catch up on.

Having read v quickly I am choosing to summarise in an Ovibitch McSillyding sort of a way. The oral thing is mightily displeasing! It's like our bodies are against us!!

Remind me who's due to poas tomorrow... Feel like we're coming into a clump of tests, and am keeping fingers crossed

ElleSarcasmo · 26/01/2016 22:42

Choco your OH sounds like a sweetie! Hope you are feeling better now.

Ni I recommend the book Expecting Better, I think Feefs recommended it and a few of us read it-the short answer is that your caffeine intake is probably fine.

Evergreen15 · 26/01/2016 22:41

OMG Nacho!!!!!!! How cute is that??????!!!!!!! Starky I am jealous!
Imp I am preseed.
Well ok there is no way I get through fw without oral, so I guess sex with saliva better than no sex at all right?
Going to bed and hoping I wake up on the 5th so I can test instead of on 6dpo bloody 2ww

ElleSarcasmo · 26/01/2016 22:39

Starky love Roman. It sounds really cool with your surname too. I recently read SPQR-great book and some great ideas for Roman names (Livia maybe?) though Robyn is lovely too.

Feefs it must be so hard without your mum, ((hugs)) for you. Flowers

No way oral sex is coming off the menu here! Grin

ElleSarcasmo · 26/01/2016 22:34

Hellooo new thread!!

Elle
Age 34
Cycle 3 (though according to DH, we haven't officially started trying yet!)
CD 26 (of 28-33 post pill)
No symptoms Sad
Will make a better effort this month with OPKs and temping. Need to use some of Kathrino's stealth work pissy stick tactics!

StarkyTheDirewolf · 26/01/2016 22:23

Roman is the one boys name we have agreed on. Literally. Everything I've liked Dh has vetoed, everything Dh comes up with I pull a cats bum face! We have yet to actually properly agree on a girls name, other than possibly Robyn, but I'm just going to decide on one and announce it directly after giving birth! I'll definitely get my own way if I've just birthed a human out of my person! Grin

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stardusty5 · 26/01/2016 22:11

Good luck to anyone testing tomorrow!

Back to symptom spotting tomorrow. Thought i had really swollen hands this morning but i think it was because my fitbit was too tight Blush

Pugmummy87 · 26/01/2016 22:09

Bloody hell ladies, another thread! I only posted on the last thread once!

Choc I am so pleased to hear you are pregnant! What did your midwife say?

So cd 11 today, did opk mid morning (I was on a late shift at work today so wouldn't have been able to do one this afternoon/eve), faint line. I wasn't going to bother with them, but I've been lax with temping and it's been hard to judge cervical fluid due to thrush.

Anyway, I ought to dtd but I've had some random watered down bleeding today. I used a canestan pessary Saturday, Google tells me this appears to be a common side effect of the pessary. Weird.

ImpYCelyn · 26/01/2016 21:51

Trojan Women is off the spec sadly! We've got Medea, Antigone, Agamemnon and Electra (Euripides version). They're fine, but I'm not an Antigone fan... Would rather have had Trojan Women!

ImpYCelyn · 26/01/2016 21:49

That's fab stark! Great name!

Chocaholic88 · 26/01/2016 21:45

lisa I'm OK... just violently sick tonight and major upset stomach... think I may have about bug but OH has me all snuggled up in bed with a glass of chilled water with lemon in etc. He's a bloody star - I should clone him!!

Thanks moggy took long enough didn't it haha

StarkyTheDirewolf · 26/01/2016 21:43

If we have a boy we have decided on Roman, literally because Roman > Rome > Romulus and Remus > direWolf > our last name! Ooooh 'the Trojan women' was my favourite tragedy!

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ImpYCelyn · 26/01/2016 21:43

Haha Kathrino you should have seen my name list. (I seem to lean Roman for boys and Greek for girls), I managed to name ds1 after an emperor, although indirectly, but DH vetoed most of them.

Yay for Classics!

ZazzlesTheCat2 · 26/01/2016 21:33

Zazzles
31
TTC#1
Cycle #3
CD2

kat are we guessing from today's date? Today I think choc is 9+1 :)