Thread 17 TTC#1 Follow the fallopian road ~~~○

Thanks Marmite!

I have an EDT of 23rd Feb!! Crikey this is getting real!

She also said she wouldn't be surprised if I was less than 13weeks due to all my bfns...

Glad the appointment went well hep! Hope they can get you a scan booked in pronto.

I got my booking-in appointment letter in the post yesterday, eek! It's hard to get excited though as just worrying something has/will go wrong.

Hope you managed to have a good day yesterday jem and feeling a bit more positive. Sounds like you had a lovely day planned. Maybe book yourself in for some sort of nice treat, nothing to do with ttc. A weekend away or a spa day?!

Also as others have said agree that 10 months is considered well within normal range by GPs so for goodness sake no talk of going to infertility boards

and for everyone who is feeling a bit meh with it all

Hep sorry about the blood situation. I always have to see the Phlemotogist (no idea if that is correct term) as she is one of the only ones that can get blood from my "special" veins. Sometimes a nurse gives it a go but invariably I end up with Susan.

Lurgy is getting a bit better. And it was soooooooo lovely to welcome my nephew back from a 4 week holiday in Peru yesterday - we are going to watch Swallows and Amazons today after eating allotment harvest.

Looks like a bite to me. kwick

jem
Perhaps a month away from TTC, or a nice weekend away will help? TTC is not an easy journey.

Hi, appt was good. My blood pressure and bmi were meaidired and are good. Had a carbon-monoxide reading ( blow onto breathalyzer type thing). Our family history's nice and boring. Forms filled in. Scan to be booked on Monday when staff in work. So don't know exactly when yet. It'll be really tight as to whether I'll be able to have the NT scan.

Took an hour, then they tried taking a blood sample, and failed in both arms! Nice bruising on the inside both elbows now. I need to pop back this week for them to try again.

How was the appointment hep?x

Some sort of bite? Or a mega spot in the production phase

Sorry you're feeling sad Jem, it's a horrible process

the more stressed and unhappy I get - the more unlikely it is to happen.
I'd challenge this as the jury is still out. It's uncertain. I've researched it and no one can really say for sure. Uncertainty has its own downsides... But still.

I've totally sorted my new job situation now, I'll be doing half a week with the NHS and half a week nannying... One year old and five year old... Might put me off kids for life!

WTF Is this?!!!!

Yummy marmite can I have a slice please?

alice you are so right - my cousin had difficulties TTC and finally, after a MC at 15 weeks, had lovely twin girls through IVF... Now she does not remember any of it mainly because she never stops

jem sorry you are feeling low. Where will you go for your outdoor swim? I have not been to Park Road since it has been done up. I love swimmjng outdoors... But am in quarantine right now as lurgy is yuck!

I just watched the 4 x 100m relay... I love Bolt!!

Ok so #firstworldproblems - I have a spot on my forehead and some growth on my shoulder blade... WTF?

Hey up how's it all going?

I've not been great the last few days understatement very weepy, low and hopeless. Desperately trying to scramble out of it and get my positive head back on, but I'm finding it harder every month. I can't help but think it's a vicious cycle for me too- the longer it takes the more stressed and unhappy I get - the more unlikely it is to happen. Don't know how to break this as I can't not be stressed and unhappy about this situation.

Alice I was thinking about the 10+ thread the other day too. It seems soon to be moving to the infertile board at that stage to me. But then I don't know what number you get to before you do? And to echo what skip said - don't you go anywhere please! Other than graduate of course!

Had blood test done on day 2 this week anyway to check for pcos, so will see what that brings back.

Sorry I'm such a misery guts! Didn't sleep much last night, had a fair few drinks out with DH, cried in the restaurant, then woke up at 3am and didn't get back to sleep. He's gone away until tomorrow now, so I need to give myself a stern talking to - drag myself out for an outdoor swim, have a nice lunch, read a good book, pop and see my family - just get myself into a better more cheery frame of mood. Wish me luck!

Yes to the shagging out the 2ww! It didn't prove successful for me that last cycle but it's how I got my last bfp. It's how I'll be doing things again this cycle.

Hope you have fun on your holiday skip, get a few drinks in you and let your hair down you deserve it!

alice 10 months is still well within normal time frames. Many GPS won't even consider that anything to worry about never mind class you infertile! I started last December, bfp march, mc in may, and nothing since. I thought I would be nearing the end of this ttc carry on by now. As kwick would say, I WILL BE PREGNANT SOON! WE ALL WILL BE! Hang around here

Hi Audrey hope the grads are all well and the little babies are all coming along nicely.

hep hope you get on well today.

I'm having a few drinks tonight, first in a while. All these cakes. Going to need something yummy to go with my drinks now

What you said did help. Thank you. I do hope you stop bleeding for your hols... And that the rain buggers off.
Maybe when we all have our babies in our arms this will all seem long ago, irrelevant and worth it.

alice you just stay right here love, there's no need to go anywhere. I wish I had something to say, as usual, that could make this easier

+Kwick* you're not that old!

Great cake Marmite

I'm awake eating a bacon sarnie at 2am because it's cd22 and I've got AF cramps. The 10 plussers thread has moved to the infertility board. I'm not ready for that.

kwick you've inspired me, I've only gone and made a cherry and almond cake, on a whim I may add! And I never bake! Happy Friday all

I've been eating soft boiled eggs with lion mark the whole way through. And blue cheese dressing (which doesn't contain any blue cheese if it's from aldi) I think you just have to weigh up the odds, I wouldn't have eggs from a farm shop snotty, but I will from tesco. And boursin is pasteurised, so is also fine!

I've been reading but it posting much, didn't want to get in the way and clutter you up. So sorry for the AFs what a fucker.

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fxskip so glad you are going to have some time away.

Well done for getting appt marmite how exciting!

Getting very jealous of all this shagging that seems to be going on... You do not want to know the last time I DTD... Most of you were probably still at school....

I'm sure it will all be fine Hep. False positives aren't actually possible.

I'm so pleased the cat's home skips I hope the holiday does you good.

I always shag out the tww. My cycle fluctuates from 19 days (under extreme stress) to 29 days, with a more usual average of 27 days, although it was 24 this month, so basically I have no real idea when I'm going to ovulate and am trying (and failing) not to get too obsessive with okps. So far we're sticking to sex every other day when I'm not actually bleeding. Not that I've got much to recommend this method as I'm very obviously not knocked up yet.

Thanks Marmite, I'm a little nervous tbh. Not helped that we have to go direct to a family "do", and will be late without wanting to tell them why.

As long as the midwife doesn't tell me " don't be stupid. You're not pregnant" .....

I may still be in denial....

Really glad to hear that skip and I think girls camping trip sounds perfect. You can enjoy some nice and have a good break from it all. Hope you have good weather!

I tried emailing the hospital this morning after I found an address online and a lovely lady rang me back. Said they like to get people booked onto the system as soon as possible, especially as it's my first pregnancy, so no idea what that other mardy woman was on about on Monday got booking-in appointment with midwife on 6th September which is not too far away at all really. Yikes. Made things seem much more scary real!

Good luck tomorrow hep can't wait to hear what they say

fxskip have a good holiday ! its probably good timing and will do you good.

aww Damson thats cute!! I always have my heart in my mouth if my DK (dear kitty) isn't there to miaow away at me - usually he's just napping on his chair which is also good because then I can go and smell him and he smells all warm and snuggly no crazy cat lady here, no siree

Flying blind is the way to go - seriously! I don't know the stats but I feel like most of the bfps here have been when they had no idea when they'd ovulated. I may be wrong but I'm using that as my keep-calm mantra.

mc update: I think I am finally finished - Its now been 6 weeks since my '7 week scan' and I just can't believe that this is how I spent my summer BUT a week today I am going on holiday - a girls only camping trip so I better a) stop bleeding completely and b) not ovulate while I am away. Fingers crossed!

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/runny-eggs-safe-for-pregnant-women-to-eat-says-report-a6844826.html

Knew I'd seen it somewhere. Sure I've seen more info more recently than that, though, which I imagine must have been when they released their "updated advice".

I remember thinking "Ah, this is clearly what my body's been waiting for," so I am trying to have high hopes again now :)

As for the kitties, at first, I watched them wherever they went and got really antsy when I couldn't see them. But they don't go far and they spend quite a lot of time at home anyway, and I know how much they love being outside (they will be sulking today as it's raining, though). She's fantastic, she sits on the gatepost like a little sentry, waiting for us to come home of an evening. It's adorable.

In other news, I am flying blind this month - we took last month off as I had a poorly timed HSG that I didn't want to put off any longer and sort of missed the boat with my tracking when I got back on the horse this month. I think we covered most bases, but I guess time will tell... I can't really decide if it makes this 2WW easier or not. I always pretend I'm not counting, but, of course, I can't help but know which DPO is it...

I guess ultimately everything that you do carries some risk, pg or not, so its about weighing up the odds of risks you are willing to take.
Damson I don't know how you are dealing with that stress, it must be like waving your kids off to school for the first time, if school meant foraging in forests, avoiding predators and trying not to get trapped somewhere. Mine is an indoor only kitty due to his love of tiny warm spaces and general lack of common sense!
I am soooo onboard with shagging your way from AF to AF, in my experience ovulation can happen any time, LH surge doesn't always mean imminent eggy arrival so hell yea I am going to take this approach too.