TTC#1 35+ and 6months ttc plus. Do you belong to this exquisite group? Rant, advice, virtual glasses of wine and no-judgement happy place here :-)

Kwick I wish I'd got far enough along to need the support bands. Bump bands are for when you getting to fat pregnant for your normal clothes but aren't ready for proper maternity clothes. They help hide the fact you can't do your jeans up properly

hi Mimi !

current status : cd11 ... no flashing face yet....

Hiya mimi!!! Lovely words - fanks.

Please explain use of bump band - does it support tummy in anyway?

Can I join please?

MimiDiddy
36
TTC#1
Cycle 23
MCs 3
Have been thoroughly pooked, prodded and tested, Dr days nowt wrong with me and DH, just keep shagging.

Waves at Kwick, hello I'm a lurker infrequent poster on JS. Your attitude to this whole ttc basis is formidable.

On silly phone app so can't scroll back but definitely not buying any baby stuff until I'm about to pop either. Bought some bump bands cos I started to show with first pregnancy, I should probably get rid of them but I remain hopeful that I'll need them soon. Instead I just scowl at them every time I find them .

hi kwick ! [waves]

SA day for us today...

Oh and vitamin E - but in the pm

Also in terms of supplements you may want to look at a book called "it starts with the egg" - contains great advice.
This is what I do/did:
Daily coq10 supplement
7 seas trying to have a baby
Vit d (I am deficient)
Extra folic acid (I am overweight)
Vit B complex
Whole milk - copious amounts - during ovulation but not during 2ww
Walnuts, cayenne pepper, cinnamon

Hope it is okay to join I may be a bit of a thread junkie

Kwick
TTC #1
Age 41 but only admit to 21
As I am footloose and fancy free need assistance or the immaculate conception did first IUI in September 2015, after 5 failed attempts moved to medicated IVF and got BFP. Made it to 8 weeks but last week at second early scan no heartbeat found. Devastated but not ready to give up just yet.

May this thread by lucky for us all

Afternoon all, Hope you all had good weekends.....I am 1 day late and second BFN. I held out doing a test all weekend (and even consoled myself with a glass or two of wine). Now I just want AF to turn up so I can start counting down the CD days towards a May BFP.

Wrote down a list of supposed 'good foods for fertility' - 75% of which I hate. Once AF finally makes an appearance I am going to try and force some of these down my throat as the new thing to try for May. (April - the new thing to try was acupuncture).

Hi all

Just about in one piece after a quite drunken wedding! Lots of fun! Did not feel like 4plus years since we had been away just us! (A good thing I think!)
In terms of when to dtd, hate it when travel or work got in the way. Every other day seems ok. I know when I conceived dc1 husband came back for one day in between business trips and that's when I conceived (day after after ovulation temp spike if I recall correctly) no hard and fast rules is my experience.

Bathlover, I am the same re pmt, it is bloody awful, I have spotting for about four days beforehand, dreadful pain, and horrendous mood swings. I wondered about endometriosis but have never raised with the GP.

Have a good week all xxx

we'll just try to cover the smiley-face period (including flashing stage) as long as OH and I are in the same location. work and travels is our main issue that we know of.

already learning that I can ovulate any time from cd12 to cd18.

We tend to dtd everyday over fertile time and sometimes twice.

There is a lot of opinion out here on once/twice a day.

In theory the sperm can live inside for 72 hours (I think)

But all the evidence is so random and then someone will pop up and say 'I got pregnant having sex once 1 week before I ovulated'

So I think do what you can.

It is so hard to keep up the momentum of Dtd very frequently. We laugh sometimes about having smiley face sex. It is for the have a baby cause rather than let's have fun.

Totally not hopeful for this month (ignoring the obvious it probably won't happen naturally anyway thing!) so it's not the wait for my period. Older I get worse my pmt has got too. Adding to the week before is just horrible :(

But going to keep busy with the gym and work and away next weekend.

Hope you guys are all ok

First glass of vino of the weekend down
my husband and I are going away together for the first night in at least 4.8 yrs... Age of our oldest dc. When I see it written down like that it looks so long...! Off to a friends wedding. Will try not to get too merry but it is probably inevitable!
Not fertile as yet so we can relax and drink, reckon I'm another week at least from ovulation.
Evergreen holiday sounds great!!!

No need to feel guilty HepKestrel welcome!

Blueskies I'll try again on Sunday/Monday....must distract myself over the weekend ?

Have a good weekend all and happy trying

guiltily popping by from other thread

cd6
cycle too many
age 36

Hi petite, welcome, could it be too early to test. I find pmt symptoms very similar to pregnancy symptoms so it is so hard to tell what's going on and I hate the guessing and testing... Fingers crossed!!

Evergreen I didn't buy anything until after the 20 week scan with dc1 (actually it was more like 23 weeks).. Had loads of bleeding too in first trimester so didn't want to look at anything baby related until we knew what was happening. Also found best to do lots of homework before buying anything as the stuff is so expensive, load of potential to buy the wrong thing!