TTC #1 Thread 14. Shroedingering Like Champions! (It's an art form and a skill!)

Sorry about the red wave of doom getting you Fishy 🌊

Speaking of supplements does anyone know (Kwick maybe?) do you keep taking coq10 and vitex agnus castus throughout the whole cycle?

to you, Fishy - sorry AF has got you. Trying for so long must be hard, but at least you've given yourself plenty of wiggle room with the time of your life you've started TTC. I'd been planning to have my first in 2016 too, but even if it isn't this year we can both still be aiming to be brewing up a baby for at least a portion of the year!

Cheese and wine are always a good idea.

So the games are over, I'm pretty sure AF is in the house. Bus ticket for the 18th May please. sigh

I was convinced I'd have a baby when I was 28 and in 2016. Both these things are not going to happen now. And next month will be the first month where I could have been having a baby rather than still trying for one.

Think I need to go on a cheese and wine shop!

Cthulhoo
39 (for another four days)
TTC#1
Cycle ... 10?11?
CD 11, o/1dpo

Glad I'm not the only one here who's finding dtd constantly isn't always as easy as you'd think! DH would like me to take the initiative more often and doesn't want to know when my fertile periods are any more as it is starting to put him off a bit, though he's as excited as I am to start a family. Trouble is, if I jump on him it's usually because it's my fertile period - I like the closeness but often I'm just too knackered in the evenings and prefer to cuddle up and sleep!

I'm convinced Pregnacare Conception made my cycle longer than normal. I was using it when I first started trying and was 3 days late, which was unheard of for me. Also turned my pee a luminous yellow! These days I take Seven Seas Trying for a Baby instead, alongside that co-enzyme q10 thingy and EPO. I swear if you shook me I'd rattle. Btw Mayago - while the EPO pills I take are large, they go down easy for some reason.

Hugs to you orchard for the 'biologically 27' comment! I guess that makes me younger than my DH then .

It does sound Yorkshire! My granddad used to say ecky boggy

Thanks Hep! I'm fine with taking two tablets, but would really struggle with that massive one.

Pregnacare do a special vitamin for conception jamjar so I guess I've always dismissed the 'normal' one for before pregnancy! Looking at the fine print, you are most certainly right. Are the tablets massive? It looks like they do a liquid format, but not sure that'd be easier with pregnancy sickness

I've always taken pregnacare maya. I bought them in boots on the 3 for 2 offer as they can be used during conception and pregnancy as I was conscious of wasting tablets if I bought lots then got pregnant! They were also the brand I got free samples of when I signed up to the midwife and seem to be the most commonly used in my area. It's not the easiest tablet to swallow though, I have to say! (Particularly when pregnancy sickness kicks in!)

Ha ha jem I've no idea! Either Yorkshire where I grew up or just in my ranting brain just then!!!

moose bless your DH he sounds very sweet loving the phrase heckers too where does this come from?!

mayago i just get my epo from boots. If you buy the 500mg dose, you take 2 smaller ones instead of the huge 1000mg pill.

think i'll start taking it tomorrow (cd4) when AF is on her way out.

I'm looking at ordering my vitamins for next month - only order a month at a time in case we get lucky! Anyhow, after reading up on EPO, decided it might be worth a shot. However, all the packages I've studied show capsules as big as my pinkie!! Does anyone have a recommendation for a brand where the capsules are a bit smaller?

I am so with you all on DTD becoming a chore! Something about "having" to do it to TTC has taken all the fun out of it!! I must make more effort too. Have put on a few pounds the last few months and just not feeling like instigating it....
The other night he made a move after we'd turned the lights out and all I could think was "ooh good it's dark, won't matter that I look bored and we can just get it over with!"

It doesn't help that every time we do it, he now makes some comment about "ooh maybe this time" which would be quite sweet - but it's never in bloody fertile week and I just get wound up and gave to bite my tongue. When it's actually ISW can I heckers get him to get his leg over. He just hasn't grasped the concept of a small fertile period!

Hi Ninja, I know what you mean, I try to stay positive too and not let him see the stress because I'll, of course, just make his anxiety worse. Although, that does get a little lonely and frustrating after a while because I can't share how I'm feeling. Anyway, like you said though, it's bound to happen eventually!

Big hug from me pug, anxiety is a bitch. Hope it has settled down and you are feeling better.

kat absolutely I get so sick of DTD! I really enjoy it and love how it brings us closer, but I would say by the time I actually ovulate I'm already fed up of it.

I never imagined ttc would take this long either Bluebird. It all seems a bit rubbish right now!

Update... Nothing all of yesterday, then a bit of spotting right at the end again! This morning there's a little spotting again, but it's still not AF yet. Unless it gets enough to convince me it's really AF I'll test tomorrow morning. But I still don't feel preggo, I think my body's just playing games with me.

Thanks katrino and jem. It has felt such a long time. When we started Ttc last year I remember thinking...I'd die if it takes a year! How can you wait that long! That definitely won't be me. And alas...it is me. I have regular cycles so sort of wondering if it's Dh's swimmers. He won't go get a SA until I've done the blood tests so that we won't know what's going on for a couple of months.

In the original posts I was deborah and my birth year so changed it so I was less identifiable then I became bubbapup89 but as there were a few bubbas as names I got confused with who was speaking to me so decided to change it but didn't speak on here for ages. I think we used to be roughly the same timings Kat.

I am making a massive effort atm more than I have in years but not sure if it's where we have got married.

Pup what was your name before? Or is there a reason you changed it? I don't get why people change their names on here often.

Yay love yoga. I need to do some tomorrow, I go through phases of "I'm lifting heavy weights in the gym I don't need yoga" through a nice healthy balance of both, then "I love yoga I need nothing else in my life ommmnmmmmmmmmmmm" and back again. Currently in weights phase. And overdid legs/butt yesterday (trying to lift the bloody thing up .... Each year older I get I swear an inch closer to the ground it's getting) consequently I can't walk, sit or lean today. Think it might be time for yoga.

I need to get back into sexy mode better get my blusher on . I've really not been bothered about it the last month or so. Does anyone else get like that? Like I could really take it or leave it iykwim. But I feel bad for DH as I really should put in a bit more enthusiasm. Pfft.

Lots of for you pug. Anxiety attacks are the absolute worst, I hope you're feeling a bit better now.

Bluebird, I hope next month's tests can give you some answers.

Sorry to hear you're feeling rubbish Pug. Anything you can do to unwind? Hug a kitty, cuppa tea, good long natter with someone?

No news from me, no signs of AF.

I did however have a horrid panic/anxiety attack this evening. Just in general feel like everything in life is getting on top of me, I feel like I do so much for everyone but don't get anything back? My brain just felt like it had a million thoughts whirling around and it got too much.

Kwick you definitely work for FRER lol I still don't have any in but I shall try and pop to boots in my lunch break tomorrow!

suchajem are you stocked up with FRER?