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TTC After MC 12: Hopeful Twats and Emotional Wrecks welcome!

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BertieBotts · 20/07/2017 23:09

Come one, come all, new and old, no-one wants to be here, but at least we're glad we've got each other :) Flowers

Hope your stay here is short.

Now, some BFPs if you please and BFNs for those who are waiting for them too!

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Lime19 · 29/07/2017 12:11

Congrats jen! Whoop!

Why do I feel like I'm getting af on day 18... stay away you little annoyance!

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BertieBotts · 29/07/2017 10:44

Oh no Stuck perhaps you can rearrange the appointment? I know it's horrible to be stuck in bed though!

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MsJuniper · 29/07/2017 10:39

Really sorry to hear that. It must have been horrible. I'd stay put Stuck, I can understand why you'd want to go though.

Stuckinstressville · 29/07/2017 10:32

Just spent 5am to now at a&e as the bleeding hit
8 pads in 5 hours- looks like the haematoma got a bit mad at dildocam so bled out a lot. No more scans for me as more risky than not. On a drip to rehydrate but otherwise fine.

Now do I got to my hair appt at 2? Uber there and back? Relaxation.... or grey hair?

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BertieBotts · 29/07/2017 10:18

Haha soda law :)

Congratulations Jen! :)

I had another pregnancy dream last night Confused Premonition or troll body??

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Stuckinstressville · 29/07/2017 10:14

Jen wonderful news and good advice re job!

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JenCFA · 29/07/2017 10:11

Thanks everyone! Here's hoping third time's a charm....

MsJuniper · 29/07/2017 09:58

Jen that's great news!

Bertie that is such sensible advice and I wish I'd taken it over the last 3 years.

yellowfrontdoor · 29/07/2017 09:51

Congratulations, Jen, amazing news!

StepAwayFromGoogle · 29/07/2017 09:50

Wow, well done Jen, we appear to be on another roll! Yippee.

Bertie, those are wise words. I'm just seeing what happens first - baby or job. Baby please, universe x

Smurf123 · 29/07/2017 09:49

Congratulations jen so pleased for you Smile

TheGrumpySquirrel · 29/07/2017 09:46

Congratulations Jen that's amazing news! And on a digital too!

I think you are right in general Bertie but I know I'd be crazy to take a job like this if we are actively TTC. My current job is fab anyway so I'm not looking to rock the boat when I know I've got great job security and maternity package here.

JenCFA · 29/07/2017 09:29

Totally agree Bertie. Nothing like a bit of Sod's law... I've stressed myself out a lot over the last year and a bit about work, feeling like I couldn't move because I would screw myself over for mat pay. Then after mc 1 I actually looked at what the difference would be if I just got the basic pay from the state if I hadn't been at a job long enough - and the difference was so small I couldn't believe I'd been that worried. I've actually just started a new job, but my boss knows my history and made it clear she knows (hopes) I might go off and have a baby when she offered it to me. I was pregnant when I accepted, and I'm so glad I did, given what happened.

In other news, I cracked and took a test this morning.... and got a BFP on a digital (wanted to do a FRER but this was all Boots had y'day). I'm in shock.

Lime19 · 29/07/2017 09:18

Sods... not soda. Blush

Lime19 · 29/07/2017 09:17

Wise words Bertie! Who knows, booking a holiday might cause soda law to happen!

Thanks everyone for reassuring me that my cycle isn't totally messed up. Hopefully it is just like it for a cycle or two before normal service resumes.

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BertieBotts · 29/07/2017 08:56

What I've learned from being here for a year and a half is don't let the ttc influence any other life decisions. Change your job or accept the good one. If you're pregnant and it messes things up then you won't care because you'll be happy to be pregnant - you'll make it work. It's not a great outcome but still a good one. On the other hand not being pregnant and having turned things down just makes you depressed.

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TheGrumpySquirrel · 28/07/2017 23:34

CD10 here and very busy with work and life (redecorating going on in our flat, 8 working days till we go on summer hols, etc) so I'm actually feeling quite un focused on TTC which I think is a good thing?! This is also cycle 3 post mc which may be my lucky cycle (fell pregnant cycle 3 post pill in march) fingers crossed! I won't find out until I am a week into my 2.5 week holiday in Sardinia which is good because if it's AF I can drink amazing wine and if it's a BFP I'll hopefully be relaxed who am I kidding

And yes to baby / job decision stress.. I just turned down an opportunity 3-4x my current annual pay 😩 because it would be incompatible with a new baby (even if my DH stayed at home!)

TheGrumpySquirrel · 28/07/2017 23:14

Wow stuck that's amazing! Really hope twin 2 hangs in there! Take it easy x

Juniper thinking of you too and hope so much that this one works out x

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BertieBotts · 28/07/2017 22:38

Stuck - how amazing, good luck with it all. Do stick around and keep us updated? :)

Anne - that must be so hard and I know DH feels similar, though he loves DS I know he desperately wants his own and I'd love to do it together. I feel a bit cheated out of the proper experience with XP because he was so generally crap. But I don't mean to be ungrateful about DS because he is lovely. I had a dream last night that I had a little baby boy asleep on me, in the dream it was very stressful because he wasn't DH's and I didn't know who the dad was and I'd been hiding the pregnancy and feeling really worried about it but then he went to sleep on me and everything just disappeared and I didn't care about any of it. It wasn't as vivid as some other baby dreams I've had and when I woke up I was relieved not to have the babydaddy dilemma, but still. So tonight I got DS to lie on me and have a cuddle but he's very big and leggy and wriggly and it didn't quite work :o oh well. I think he was quite pleased that I said he was still my baby.

Not approaching fw quite yet but I suddenly remembered when I was going to bed that DH isn't allowed to ejaculate for 5 days now because of his sperm test so I texted him romantically 'do you want a blow job?' He replied back 'Haha you're so kind' so I thought he was offended but then I heard him RUNNING (on his broken foot!!) to the bedroom. LOL. And they say ttc sucks all the romance out of your sex life.

Fingers crossed the 5 day abstinence should end about halfway through my fertile week.

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Flashinthepan · 28/07/2017 22:35

I've just posted a rant in an AIBU thread about a woman who's friend won't speak to her after both of them suffering pregnancy losses. Now I'm worrying that I shouldn't have but I took it really personally that a poster said an ectopic pregnancy is incomparable to a 15 week miscarriage in terms of how awful it is. I don't think anyone should compare pregnancy losses of any kind but I hate posting in AIBU because it's so angry but it really riled.me up!

MsJuniper · 28/07/2017 22:23

Whenever I have a mc I think how much harder it would be if I did not already have DS so I'm not offended by anyone saying that. It doesn't make the mc itself any less awful. I do feel huge guilt at having been 'absent' during periods of recuperation and at not giving him the sibling he is so keen to have, but I feel very lucky to have him.

In my own update, I do still seem to be pregnant. I've been too scared to call the RMC to tell them in case it jinxes it, but will have to get over that if things are still the same next week.

StepAwayFromGoogle · 28/07/2017 21:53

I know that one, yellow, stuck in getting-a-new-job or getting-pregnant limbo. I know which one I'd prefer but neither seems to be happening. Not sure the stress of my job helps with getting and staying pregnant either.

yellowfrontdoor · 28/07/2017 19:07

Goodness me Stuck, that's quite the rollercoaster! So sorry for your lost twin but come on Sticky Twin! You've got this whole thread behind you Flowers

Yes to limbo. It makes it worse, I want to change my job, but do I? Don't I?

JenCFA · 28/07/2017 19:06

stuck I have absolutely everything crossed for you. (Also a crazy cat lady here - they're a good way to change the subject I find when friends who should know better go too heavy on the baby talk)

nocats I really hope I didn't hurt your feelings (or any other ladies here who already have little ones) I didn't mean to diminish your loss in any way - I really don't think having kids already makes any of this easier. It's just a slightly different shade of shit, I guess. I think of all you ladies on here and how hard it must be whenever I hear anyone ask someone when they're going to get on with baby no 2 or 3....just don't!

SJ I second what Anne said - I think you are amazing. I can't even imagine how hard having the nursery all ready to go must be. Sometimes I struggle even with our depressingly undecorated spare room. Currently it's the cats' playroom 😹. Told you I was a crazy lady.