Thread 11 TTC#1. Let the fertile games begin! May the eggs be ever in your favour!

I'll have to look into it Elle it would be fab.

I've had no even remotely tender boobs yet this cycle! Very odd.

POAS yesterday evening miley bfn. Cycle is 28-32 days so far tho. FF thinks I ovulated on the 12th OVIA thinks the 17th going to get ovulation kit for next cycle. So AF due Saturday or Monday.

moggy i had a really vivid dream about getting a bfp when i was waiting for AF last cycle. Clearly, i took this to be my body telling me something . Was nice but a bit gutting when you realise it was all a dream and actually you are deffo not upduffed.

I'm 3dpo now. Feel utterly normal, no amount of boob prodding is telling me anything!

I have noticed an increase in cm throughout this cycle including some 'textbook' ewcm which i don't consistently get. Only thing i'm doing differently is a daily Aldi Berocca in my water bottle at work. My nails seem to be doing well as well! Hope it is them, theyre v cheap!

kwick warm milk urghh! Hope all the hydration works though!

So after being crazy irrate woman for the past 2 days my bad mood has cleared ... I saw a real life murmuration for the first time on my drive home which was amazing, then made the effort to do an hours yoga on my mat this evening which was very much needed for old creaky bones here, and was lovely, very self indulgent

Had a dream last night that I got baby boy clothes for my birthday and that my mum and sister were trying to convince me to do a FRER I think that's the first proper baby related dream I've had since we've been ttc, it was proper freaky.

so I'm 10 DPO today and I've got a popping and slight pulling sensation on the inside of my left hip tonight which feels really weird. Is that a pregnancy implantation symptom? Or is it just my head making up phantom symptoms because my mind is slightly twisted?

starky I tried to find hugo without the use of the LL, but only once, I couldn't find him the sneaky bugger.

Lara that is VERY reassuring cos I'm 33 too! How's your little bean doing?

Hi ladies! Just catching up. So sorry some of you have been a bit down. 💐

ni, just to reassure you, I'm 33 and I get barely any CM and no visible EWCM but still got BFP so it's clearly not essential to have loads.

Don't really think so Elle...but then I only took it half the time as amazon didn't deliver til about CD7. Plus I boozed the night before o-1 so reckon all my body fluid was dehydrated! Trying to drink lots of hot water with lemon, mint, etc to stay hydrated these days. Plus acupuncture woman said keeping the stomach (and therefore the womb) warm helps...so soups, teas, hot water bottles! I've heard that from a friend doing ivf too...apparently it makes the whole area more hospitable! hostess with the mostess

Last month was only 10 days Ever but I had shorter 28day cycle. Before its been 32,33,31-but wasn't temping or opking so not sure when I ovulated. Have you heard anything that helps with short lutes?

Ladies panic over - I started injecting after I had opened up conference line and completed whilst others were still dialling in. INFURIATING call though!

I am on my second warm glass of milk... I went on youtube yesterday and saw a bunch of videos on ivf - I need to drink more!!!! Hydration is very important apparently.

Ni lol at drying up. Also I feel the same. How short is your luteal phase? Mine is 11 days

Did EPO help your mucus Ni? I have started it this month. I could have written your moan a couple of days ago. I've had a day off today and had a lovely day, lovely run in the sunshine, met up with a friend, had my hair cut...I feel like a new woman!

Wine is the one positive of AF Jem!

Sorry you've been down Zazzles, how are you feeling now?

I was browsing conception/fertility books on Amazon earlier and came across this one by Marisa Peer-anyone read it? It's all about positive thinking and removing 'baby blocks' or mental blocks to conception. I am tempted to buy it but am a cynic and worried it will make me cross!

www.amazon.co.uk/Trying-Pregnant-Succeeding-Marisa-Peer-ebook/dp/B009ET1H6E/ref=pd_sim_351_2?ie=UTF8&dpID=41oIBGbzEhL&dpSrc=sims&preST=AC_UL160_SR108%2C160&refRID=1NHHS4DMKTS1AEBHFZ4N

Argh I missed out on the b*tching! My twopence:
"I've left it too late, I shouldn't have been on the pill for 10years, I'd get pregnant if I was exercising more, my work stress is affecting my body more than I realise" And this month I have decided I don't have enough CM cos I'm old and drying up, and I have an acidic woman cave which is killing off all the swimmers!

Cd21 on my second month of temping and I'm stopping bbt after this cycle. Seems to show that hormones are ok, and I'm ovulating (although maybe short luteal phase) so that's all I needed to know. Started EPO this month and will take again next cycle. Happened across a pineapple in the shops so am now eating pineapple slice every day until AF! (What a dope I am!). Will take opks just around FW.

we need to be having more sex!! so fed up of it! Only dtd 3 times this Month although day before O and 2 days before!

Sorry for rant. Feeling like we're out this month anyway on account of the barren mucus. But only 4dpo...I'm sure next week I'll be convinced I'm preggers!

Hello lovely ladies sorry I've been awol for a few days, was quite down about arrival of af and also had a busy week at work.
Will catch up on all of your posts

No such thing as tmi on this thread I reckon pug. Good work from your oh, it's so much easier when they are on board.

fx that sounds amazing, what an incredible mix of places. I spent my gap year in Sabah, Borneo, it's a truly wonderful place. I have no idea what I'll do with mine! I quite fancy going back to Australia, dhs heart is set on Japan. I really hope we will have a baby by then too.

Just had a lovely evening with my lovely brother in law with wine and pizza. He was in town doing his final gp exam and DH is away at work, but it was actually quite nice to really chat to him properly. An unexpectedly lovely evening :)

Kwick you might want to put it on mute! Hope it's not too horrible having to inject on the call.

Welcome MrsSH

Ooh Hep that sounds promising! Think I'm going to book us a night in a hotel next FW.

FX lucky you having family out there! Wish some of mine would emigrate somewhere exciting!

Haha Choc I'd be the same! I'd be constantly staring out of the window and making cups of tea. Didn't know that about the nuchal scans. Hope it flies by and your sickness goes away again!

Aw kwick no! Can't the call wait a little or could you bring forward your injection?

fx that sounds lovely! What a brilliant adventure!

feef you must be almost ready to poas?!

Cycle 8
Ttc 1
Age 27
Due AF soon n taking test tomorrow

Hello ladies. Are we just about to lose our minds? Cos I certainly am if I hear one more slag getting pregnant off a one niht stand

I am bus on my way home - early for once as i have a conference call at 7pm... Will have to inject whilst on the call....!

elle it's not half as bad as it could be. It's just difficult to stay motivated when you're at home and feel rubbish. I end up in the office staring out of the window haha!

They brought it forward because although my scan Tuesday put me at 8 weeks today, I could still move forward in dates by up to a week as early scanning isn't quite as accurate.

So the scan on 5th of April will have put me at 13+5... which means if they move me more than 3 days forward I'll miss the Nuchal screening window. The consultant I'm under (because I have a ridiculously low bmi that clearly is natural or I couldn't have conceived 3 times no problem) only has clinic every two weeks so they've move it forward to when I'll be 11+5 instead :)

feefs I'm a definite AF spotter with additional boob prodding!

I also refer to my Schrödinger baby during the tww!

Elle I'm on the train now to meet up with oh at the city where work has sent for the last many months. Staying in his hotel, but he has upgraded to a plush room! Dinner out tonight, then long weekend visiting DB and SIL.

They unfortunately cannot have kids, but have 3 gorgeous furbabies instead.

elle that sounds amazing - we also have family in Buenos Aires so will definitely be getting out there at some point, but too scared of Zika right now!!!

Good work Pugmummy, and also do not feel you have to apologise for anything. This forum is a place where we can all vent and ask for support at our most crazy times, in a supportive and understanding environment. No judgement (unless you POAS too early and miss out on a starkystar invoke the wrath of Starky!!)

I am ALREADY SYMPTOM SPOTTING and I haven't even ovulated yet - WTF Brain?!!!

Fx that sounds amazing! I've always wanted to take a few months off, go to Argentina and learn Spanish in Buenos Aires. Then to travel up Argentina, taking in Iguazu falls, and travel to Brazil, then to Central America. I don't ask much!

Feefs you might be surprised, lots of nhs staff do take sabbaticals and return to work eg I know a few people (doctors and nurses-but I would have thought it would apply to other NHS staff)who've been to Australia/NZ to work for a year. I think if you're permanent you can request it after a certain length of service?

Choco so sorry you're feeling crap again. Hope the work isn't too arduous.How come they brought your scan forward? Exciting that you don't have long to wait.

Hey everyone. Sorry - off the map again.

Morning/all day sickness is back... coupled with splitting headaches and a whole magazine that needs editing before Tuesday... silently sceams

In other news my next scan has been brought forward 2 weeks to the 22nd March :)

How is everyone??

Wow fx that's sounds amazing!!
No chance of a sabbatical in my job :(