TTC #1 Thread 15. Don't. Trust. The. Boobs. ( . )( . )

Good luck snow!

ooOOhh good luck snow !!

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Sat at the clinic waiting for the IUI. Dh succeeded in providing some goods lol but we have to wait an hour for them to wash it and make it ready for the IUI. So nervous. 😖😝😜

been away . Have i missed anything?

Bluebird personally there's no way I'd stop trying for that. Why put your life on hold for someone else's? Surely you could find a way to work around it.

Sky it's occurred to me to speak to my GP but fairly sure she'd say keep going, relax etc. I did wonder about getting DH's swimmers checked privately though. No real reason but my cycle is like clockwork and always have been, opks show I ovulate normally and we have been timing DTD well. So can't but wonder if his swimmers aren't getting to where they should be?

Don't want to upset or stress out DH though.

starky pmsl!!
I do agree, although on cycle 3, I now know from opking that our timing was completely off in 1&2 so I'm trying not to count those in my head.
I imagine the first trimester must be torture!

Starky do you mind sharing how long you were trying in the end and if you think you did anything different in your final cycle that was successful? It's such a newbie question and I know everyone is different but I just wondered.

Exactly winging, especially if there's something that I could / should be doing. Gah, why can't our bodies just co-operate?!

I can see why they say a year, but i don't personally want to waste a whole year of trying only to find there was a problem all along and that it was never going to happen without intervention.

Haha winging, the thought did cross my mind!

kathrino this may be considered wrong by some but if you are concerned that there's a problem why not just tell your gp you've been trying for longer than you have?

I know that ladies Ttc are always feeling like they are surrounded by babies/pregnant but the last 12 hours have been really ramming it in.
Firstly yesterday at work my no. 2 told me she's pregnant -completely unplanned and unexpected (she's 39 and had never really been in that place), then on radio on way home they do a feature on ectopic pregnancies, then on radio this morning there was a fertility doctor on talking about her work and just now been sent pic of sis-in-law's 12 wk scan!

Trying to keep my head in a relaxed and not-thinking-about-it state isn't easy!

Has anyone had a useful experience going to a GP after 6 months (presuming they're also under 35)? It's so hard to get an appointment at ours and not sure if it's worth it just to get told to go away and keep trying :/

Ah Sucha, I know how you feel. AF is due in a couple of days and I can feel her marching towards me (I'm going to a wedding on Sat, so she's guaranteed...no pale skirt for me!!). So, helloooo cycle 6. I'm off to the GP next week (for another reason) and might just flag that it's not as easy as I'd hoped...I'm sure she won't take any notice until I've been trying for a year (sigh) but I'm interested to see what she advises - I'm not one for temping/charting/POAS etc. but I think I'll have to start, so I have lots of info/ammunition if I need to go back in six months

Hope you feel cheerier soon....I'm clinging to the fact that once it happens, we'll all forget the pain/worry of the TTC period, no matter how protracted!

kat I'd definitely pop home, it's not that late to be getting to your hotel at 10.30ish as you'll feel more relaxed anyway having been able to dtd rather than being annoyed.

After yesterday's failure we did it at 5.45 this morning before dh went to work! Needs must and all that! Consequently feeling less worried now, especially as still no EWCM (and I did have some last cycle) so hoping we can keep this up for another couple of days.

starky interesting tip re opking at work, I might have to try that next month although i can see aiming into the packet might get messy!

I would probably pop back home for a quickie kat. But I know what you mean about effort. It's hard to feel like you've lost a whole month and the wait for the next fw is agonising. This is my last month Ttc then we have to take 3 months off as my dsis is getting married abroad next May. I'm the m of h and if I get upduffed in the next 3 cycles I'd have to miss it. I'm so frustrated after such a log time trying to have to stop.

Congrats feef lovely pic, thanks for sharing and glad all going well

Kat know what you mean. Every week is a milestone for pregnancy it seems - whereas ttc counted in months. If only we had more than one shot a month can your oh be persuaded to join you at your hotel this evening...? If not I'd defo go home for a quickie. I'd regret not doing it for rest of cycle if I didn't.

Feeling really low about it all at the moment. Never thought I'd be trooping into month 6. So very tired of the loop of hope and disappointment.

Will snap out of it but ugh ttc sucks.

Is DH amenable to a quickie later? If so, I would be tempted especially if the alternative is sitting in a hotel room feeling pissed off about missing ovulation. But totally take the point re effort. After 7 months, I'm starting to wonder what the point is.

Oh dear Kath :( you're not out till you're out but I know how u feel.

Slightly tempted to go home after work for a quickie ... But I will leave work about 6... Have to drive a good half an hour in the opposite direction to where I'm going later on... So I guess won't leave till 7 at the very earliest and you know what it's like when u get home I'll probably end up cooking or faffing...so won't get to my hotel until maybe 10-10.30. (Course isn't until tomorrow morning but that's v late to be arriving for me)

Also... Effort.... Wwyd?

Oh Kat, what a bugger :(

I got a whiter than white BFN this morning on a FRER at 14 DPO. The fact that I've tested inevitably means AF will turn up this afternoon.

Nooooooooooo.... I have woken up to an abundance of ewcm (sorry tmi) today. Actually the first time I've noticed it. It's all stringy and everything sorry for making you gag but no time to dtd . I tried to lull DH with w proposition of "if we have sex quickly now how quick can you be as I have to leave for work in three minutes ?... Which didn't work.

I'm at with all day then going straight from work up to Midlands for conference not back until late sat night. There goes my egg this month :(

Hello ladies ,
Ff have just preducted ovulation day as cd10 which is a bit weird to me looking at my chart i would think ovulation would be on day 12 ??
Anyone more knowledgable ?

starky yeah I've read thats the best time but I don't get home until 7 and not sure about the logistics of doing it in the toilets at work?! How does everyone else manage it?