the 2WW Continues...........................

Digital Girl - you've hit the nail on the head for me! Anything to make those 2 weeks go quicker. Am glad to know that someone else not giving up the wine and coffee too. Just yet. Here's hoping there'll be some tee totallers soon with those BFPs.

Am on cycle 8 now on TTC no 2. I am also on the reflexology trip. I've had about 8 treatments so far.

interesting sarah I shall be watching for your BFP!

welcome ladyhelen everyone makes up their own rules for the 2ww, which tend to change depending on how long you've been trying. I started off not drinking booze or caffeine or eating anything you're not supposed to. Now I'm on cycle 3 I've relaxed a bit.

I think just do whatever it takes to make that 2ww go quicker!

Hello ladies, I'm mainly a lurker here - being nosy about others 2WWs! But I think I need to start posting now. I am right in the middle of my 2WW and feeling quite positive about this month.

I OPK'd again this month with some ebay sticks and got a positive result on CD17. We'd BD'd the day before (randy DH) the day of the positive result and the day after (god that was tiring).

I am now CD25.

So here's the question:

What are the rules of the 2WW?

Do you drink? If you are a smoker, do you stop? Do you have caffeine?

What does everyone else do? I'm still drinking a glass of wine a night and a bit more at the weekends. And as soon as that BFP appears and am pg "officially" that stops. I occasionally have a cigarette. I love my lattes. Should I be stopping all these? What are the rules?

Just bought one on ebay £4.99 will start charting my temp as soon as I get here. Feel a bit better now that I'm doing something you know... Bring on the December BFP's

Thanks DG I will get shopping!

pixie you need a digital thermometer that records your temp to at least one tenth of a degree (0.1). I think you can get them from Boots, we had one lying around from when DH got sick abroad and we had to buy one from a Spanish chemist.

Then stick it under your pillow and set your alarm for the earliest time you usually have to get up. when alarm goes off, take your temperature and if you don't have to be up you can go back to sleep for a bit. takes a few days to get used to it, but it's easy once it's part of your routine.

the digital ones usually keep the last temp recorded in it's memory so you can check it later and stick it into fertility friend. it charts it for you and will tell you when you've ov'ed a few days later (so don't use it to time BD'ing).

You have to have at least 3 hours sleep before taking it, so if you get up to go to the loo at 6 and then go back to bed and take your temp at 8 - it'll be wrong. Best to take it at 6 if you're desperate.

know what you mean about worrying you'll miss the window of opportunity and trying to get in the mood every 36 hours DG!! My poor DH is very good at doing his "duty", but it takes all the fun out of BDing and he is really tired and busy at work. He managed to cancel the business trip to Zurich on CD 12 and 13, which is a relief!

Sorry to hear about the lack of egg

cheers for the chocolate MOB - just what was required to lift my mood

DG I want to start temping... what do I need?

Well we do seem to have had a mass influx of AF's haven't we perhaps next month we'll all get our Christmas BFP's hey

(I'm trying positive thinking)

I'm suffering a virtual hangover from all of the wine I drunk in here yesterday. I spent last night on the sofa and watched a mega 5 episodes of Grey's Anatomy season three one after the other. I cried, I laughed it was great. DP did whinge about my PMT as well Bucky but I feel justified, I think he was taking advantage IYSWIM making out I was being more horrible than I really was.

According to my fertility friend chart I won't be ovulating until the 4th December so I am going to let go for the next three weeks and have a bit of fun, gonna drink wine and eat brie so there [sticking tounge out emoticon]

Hope we're all feeling better soon. BIG GROUP {{{{{HUG}}}}}}

MOB lovin' your symptoms at CD4!!!

{{{{{{{hugs}}}}}}}}} bucky & gg

Buggerations, my temp stayed down low today. WHERE IS MY BLOODY EGG?????
DH came home soooo tired andy achy last night after a hard day's work, I said he could have the night off as long as he'd see to me in the morning . which he did. so no cm/cervix checking for me this morning...probably a good thing.

But yes, planning BD'ing with military precision is beginning to lose it's appeal and I'm only CD18. But can't help thinking, if we don't do it every 36 hours then I'll miss the egg boat! We'll be knackered if i have to keep this up till cd35 again.

{{{{{big hugs}}}}} to everyone here - all the frustrated, angry, tantrumy people. Lets have some footstamping in unison!!!!!

Am leaving a big bar of chocolate in the corner - go nibble!

I laughed at myself this morning. I had rather a lot of trouble "going" IYKWIM and sat there thinking wow, a symptom, must get on to MN and discuss, then i thought no, you silly cow, you are on CD4 it really is just constipation!!! Obsessed? Moi?

Gryffingirl as far as I am aware it can be from 5 days before, it gets less as you get older . However, the general advice is to get to it from the time you get it because all the swimmers hide out in it anyway .

Bucky - can I join in and have a tantrum too?! . I am fed up waiting, planning sex with military precision, being so broody, feeling miserable and generally adding up to an all round fertility failure . I don;t even have the excuse of PMT

AND millionaire marrying PG friend sent me an email this morning from The Palace and the lucky cow hasn't had any morning sickness, nor any weight gain

Grrr. I need to chill out (or everyone will tell me that I will never get PG if I am stressed...which only ever makes you MORE STRESSED!) You'll be packing me off to the Hut Of Doom next

I can't believe we have had such an unlucky BFN and AF arriving month between us all .

Big welcome to Scary

Hi DG and the others. WE need some cheering up, I think

I have LOADS of work to do today, so will scamper off and do some, but will look in through the rest of the day.

Oh, and can anyone answer a question (which I think might have been covered before, but I can't find it ) - when you get EWCM, does that means you are about to ovulate right that minute, or a coupelof days before you ovulate? I thought it was the latter. I get EWCM at day 11-ish, but if that is when I ovulate, I might be too late IYSWIM

Bucky
If it's any consolation, I got thick creamy CM just before I got my BFP. So it's not all over until TEW gets you.

Morning everyone.

Well I have two symptoms today. I think they are AF symptoms though:

1. PMT - i.e. I was evil last night and this morning to DP. Snapped at him for everything, according to me this morning he was unable to do ANYTHING properly . Aw and he is the best DP, I am super spoiled. Dropped to the station, picked up from the station, come home to my dinner, tea made on command, lots of kisses and hugs for being a total bitch . Might have to apologise.

1. The infamous creamy white CM. Which incidentally I had just before AF last month so its not looking good in the Bucky camp once again!

Why is it taking so LONG ?? I just want a baby, millions and billions of people have them, its supposed to be a normal natural thing, WHY CAN'T I HAVE ONE???? .

Hello ScaryHairy welcome

Thanks Bucky. I hope so too (and the same for all of you). I'm glad to have found this thread... even though I'm trying to be relaxed about it I still manage to spend a stupid amount of time wondering if I am pregnant. Oh well, time will tell, and hopefully the wait will go by quickly!

Hi and welcome scaryhairy. Hope you have a short stay cos you get a BFP . Although obviously if you don't we look forward to having you around.

May I wait with you ladies?

I am half way through my 2WW.

My DH is away 4 days each week which kind of limits conception opportunities. We've been sort of trying for a few months although this time I tried to target efforts a bit. My cycle is 36 or 37 days. We had sex on CD 21 and then DH went away again. I took an OPK on CD 22 which was positive for LH surge, so hopefully we had sex 24-48 hours before ovulation.

Now I am imagining all sorts of pregnancy symptoms - backache, strange acne, tingling nips, nausea, possible spotting 4dpo - and they really could be in my head!! I HATE THE WAIT!

oh bugger! sorry to hear of a mass AF swoop over the 2ww thread .

got some more ewcm this evening. but still no sore nips. so not sure if that's because hormones are more balanced and I'm ov'ing OR still not ov'ing.

Bucky my cycles are usually 28 days and I'm on CD 35 and still no sign of my AF!!

This is driving me mad!!! DH is going a bit mad too now. He said, "so what are our options now?" and I said, "Well, I might be pregnant or I might not be pregnant, but it's definitely one of those."

2 BFNs which don't tell me anything at all. I'll be testing again on Saturday if no more signs.

No AF signs and could go for a swim in all the CM I'm producing. I think I'll just have to wait... Drums fingers...

Sorry AF got you BeanieSteve, but as you say, it's early days.

Coolcat I think you'll be a cool mummy whatever the age gap and your little one will have an older sister so will know all the cool music before their friends and be much more fashionable too. I am an only child, but the closest thing I have to a sybling is my uncle who is 8 years older than me and I wouldn't have had it any other way.