The July 19ers - STILL never beaten, and rocking our FJs for a lucky thread

I'm really sorry @tigsy - your chart looked great too 😥 milestones like that are the worst, absolutely understand where you're coming from.

Oh @BettySwoll0cks that is really insensitive re the braces! Was he joking?!
I had invaslign too around 5 years ago. You get used to them. They are fab & definitely worth it!
Your AF comment made me laugh... my dh keeps eyeing up the thermometer at the side of the bed & asking what exactly I hope to achieve using it 😂

@Kinsters glad your thrush is clearing up!

I didn't get to have The Conversation with DH last night as we had a huge drama with his mum (went into hospital for a non invasive, routine appointment & apparently it "went wrong" & she needed morphine etc 🙄). He didn't get home til gone 8 and then we realised our oven wasn't working 😫 so spent most of the evening on the phone to the diagnostic team. Ffs.

Also just calculated that I'll be CD27 / 11dpo on my birthday 😬

Bad luck @tigsy. Such a bloody rollercoaster isn't it. I proudly told my sensitive-as-a-housebrick DH this morning that AF had started - he looked at me as though I had gone completely mad.

But you have to take anything that resembles progress as a positive don't you? I'm going to start BBT again tomorrow and will check my stocks of OPKs today so I can be ready....

That sucks tigsy. This TTC malarkey is a real bitch, your chart looked great as well. AF and lead up to AF are definitely the worst, I was in such a terrible mood. I feel better now I'm heading towards the next ovulation but it sounds like your next o won't be at a good time.

Betty I'm really considering doing it again! I'm so self conscious of my teeth. I just wish I'd persevered with it at the time then I'd be a good few years clear of having them off! Actually I regret not choosing ceramic or lingual braces, I think they would have fit in with my routine much better than invisalign did.

Good luck with them! Future you will be so pleased that you persevered even if it was tough!

So now CD30 and temp raised slightly this morning so reached for an Asda cheapy test. Not even a hint on a line..... so I’m out. Just waiting for AF for sure. Couldn’t help keep holding onto a bit of hope but it’s not happened 😢

Kin yes that's the danger, my childminder did the same, she had her Invisalign taken off for her wedding and hasn't had them put back on, so they're moving back. I think you can get back on the wagon for a few hundred quid 😬

Betty what an insensitive comment! I had invisalign but it was a waste of money as I didn't complete them and then my teeth went back to their old alignment. How long do you have to wear them for? You'll get loads better at getting them off!

tigsy I hate those planned in advance things which I imagined doing pregnant and then they come round and I'm not pregnant. It's not too petty to want to piss off the ex-wife, she sounds awful!

My thrush seems loads better though now I've started spotting quite a bit. I wonder if the pessary irritated my cervix.

Yes you get used to them, but you will feel like that each time you get a new tray! I lost weight tho too!! About 1stone (which I needed to at the time!!)

I’m so fed up today.
I feel really miserable. Last time I was at court I was pregnant and didn’t know it, and when I found out I thought ‘next time I’ll have a bump!’ (Which is petty but would piss off the ex-wife no end!) and instead I’m standing there being told I look skinny by the barrister as ‘how didn’t you put weight in over Xmas!!’ I could have cried... but as always, you force a smile and cover it up.... because heaven forbid you tell the truth and someone else feels uncomfortable :(

@tigsyboo yes Invisalign, I'm not surprised people lose weight with these things, the trays are a nightmare to take off and my teeth feel really odd with these composite bits stuck to them, my bite is all wonky. Do you get used to it?

@Frazzle wow you did well with that accident, I’m very impressed. Not nice though. I’m glad you had a nice time, was it just the two of you?

@Tigsy FX AF stays away for a couple more days, you can defo do without court stress!

@edidxb I sometimes find acupuncture painful, last week he stuck one in my ankle and I leapt about a foot in the air, it didn’t hurt my ankle at all, but I felt it in the bottom of my foot. Very strange! I can’t imagine it being cold in Dubai... well... 13 isn’t that cold... it’s positively balmy compared to here!

@Betty my friend had braces recently and she now has lovely teeth. Give DH a slap! x

I have a rubbish cold, I’m guessing having rubbish colds isn’t great for ttc. I think I’m about to give up 😞

Ah @BettySwoll0cks that's mean!!
Did you say you have invisilign? I had those for a year on my top teeth around 9 years ago now.
They are worth it
Tell your DH to bog off xx

This is how much of an insensitive douchebag my DH can be ... I came home tonight after having my braces fitted on my teeth, and he asked to have a look. You might expect him to say something like "they're really not that noticeable, not too bad at all" but no, he goes "eurgh!! You look like you've got chunks of bread stuck to your teeth" 😠

I am a big fan of Maybelline extra volume (in the yellow tube) or if I am feeling fancy I like Clinique. Maybe I need to try Bobbi Brown as it has fans!

Oh @tigsy that's so annoying about the court dates. I totally know how it feels..........not going to court but the whole fertile week while other things are going on. Hopefully it will be some sort of stress relief for you.

I have just looked ahead and I can see my next FW is while we are away (the trip that caused the arguments!) so that's probably a good thing. Not that we have booked it yet....

The sad news of today is that while my DH is now speaking to me, he is out for dinner tonight for work. It has been organised for a good month now so it's nothing to do with the argument. Just really really bad timing!!! I have had lots of ewcm today so it must be the "peak" day according to TCOYF.

I went to acupuncture which was really painful today which it usually isn't. And it was really cold in the room........it's so cold in Dubai at the moment. 13 on my way to work this morning!

@frazzle - glad you had a good time in Berlin. I am a history teacher originally so I love all the history elements of it there. I am so impressed you got involved in the accident. It must have been terrifying. On my way to work a few years I stopped as a motorcycle guy had come off his bike and it was awful - there was all kinds of stuff coming out of his helmet. I rang the ambulance and as I was doing so, someone else stopped and took over with him. I am first aid trained but I went into shock. It was awful. Hope you are OK after the experience.

In that case @ratherbe you have my condolences. That is a disaster of the highest order 😭😭

@Betty me too! That's exactly what is was. Honestly I wanted to....!!

@tigsy lol at "obvs a man designed it" sorry for all the court drama and I'm sorry about next month too. It's so blooming frustrating.
After I read that, I checked Ovia and we are away with my parent staying in their villa with paperthin walls with them for the whole of the fw
next month

Bobbi Brown Smoky Eye mascara is literally my best friend. If a new one of those rolled into the loo I would cry, no 2 ways about it!!

@frazzle it really is!! So obnoxious!! Flashes red lights on the day, then flashes and beeps at me the next day!! I POAS and it laughs in my face! Obvs a man designed it!! Lol!

Just fed up that I know the witch is on her way, but in another way glad I’ve seen my LP is at least 11days
Next month will be a fucker tho as we will be in court for real on 4/5th which could be smack in my fertile window - if I come on today i will be Ov on the exact court dates if I go back to ‘normal’!! Was hoping to do smep plan with dtd every other day from cd8 then everyday when positive OPK but there’s just no way I’ll get DH to do it when he’s that stressed 😥

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Morning ladies

Whenever I write an update I forget who has said what when I've read so many posts so:

Oh no to the cyclist crash!!

Oh no to the mascara in the loo!! It's always the new ones!!

@edidxb they just don't understand the urgency do they!!

My cbfm was having a mare as it wants me to POAS, so I did and flashing not pregnant again. Great.
I think AF is well and truely on the way
Cd29 but only 11dpo so thinking I'm going to come on in next day or so as delayed Ov delayed period.
Temps crashing too.

Just sitting in family court waiting room for a bullshit pre trial thing and I swear all the skip-rats in the place with there 3 teeth, smoking fags and tracksuit bottoms are pregnant! Life is such a bitch :(

Oh ffs - am meeting a client via skype so thought I'd run upstairs and put some mascara on... opened a nice new one I got for xmas... put it back on the unit where it rolled in slow motion... into the loo.

@edidxb i missed your posts too - you should be good for tonight, if that's an option?

@edidxb oh no I’m so sorry. Is there really no chance for tonight? Why do men have to be such idiots sometimes!

@Ratherbe I’m sorry to hear this too, it must be a strain on your relationship, particularly while ttc. My ex from many many years ago didn’t want sex very often, I remember it not making me feel good, so I can completely understand how you feel.