Symptom Spotters Anonymous (egg spotting or implantation spotting let's have your symptoms)

Right there with you O7CTW, I swear I have had a dull ache since my cramps the other day . And there was me going 'oh no, am beyond being bothered about it anymore, don't even worry about AF blahdiblah', now I am clutching at straws and focusing on every feeling. My sense of smell is supersonic at the moment. However, I do get that pre AF sometimes and she is due at the weekend!

I really want it to happen for all of us on the thread at the same time though....

How do you ladies feel about taking your DH's name, when you get married?
My SIL didn't take it and has posted a spikey comment on bebo because we sent our christmas card to the 'fairies'

Oh Scary You said you watched them doing it??
How long did the police take to get to you then?
Sorry, I forget Is there a DH/DP in the house?

Morning all!

Hello to Sandies and welcome

DG think I might have crossed posts with you yesterday - really pleased to see you're back but not so pleased to see AF has arrived (although its good that only 44 days this month, long but better than before).

Bucky - yay to finn!!!

Scary how very annoying for you - what a complete arse some people are. Wierd and annoying in fact

Abby have you managed to account for everybody yet? No waifs and strays still at the theatre?

mtw I don't want to add to your obsession but your symptoms sound very promising - have my fingers quietly but firmly crossed for you!

Well, last night my DH was working a night shift and guess what turned up?! EWCM in abundance..... Am cos its yet another month that we'll miss - this morning I have stomach ache which always marks ov for me so thinking tonight will prob be too late (plus I have my works Christmas 'do' so will be late home). Bugger.

Hi everyone.

Bucky Well done Finn, you must have been sooo proud!

DG Glad to see you're still here. I don't know whether to say TEW got you or not? At least the cycle was shorter.

Welcome Sandies It sounds like you have a full house already good luck with having another.

Scary How odd! Very frustrating for you. They musn't have been after the parts musn't they? Hope the insurance deal with it swiftly for you.

Abby Hope all the children got back safe and sound last night.

I'm CD22 (of a 26/27 cycle) and for the last few days I have had a pulling/crampy type sensation low down on my right hand side. I am obsesssing as usual wanting to test but frightened to test. I think I may have convinced myself I feel a bit quesy from time to time and that my boobs feel slightly heavier but all this can be AF so I should just put it to the back of my mind, easier said than done!

Sandies - Welcome. Are you a secondary teacher too? Another educator of the ungrateful?! What do you teach? Am writing this through the haze of dragging myself out of bed after theatre trip last night. I'm still worrying I left one behind and don't know about it yet. It's been the longest and most painful half term. A week and a day to go (not that I'm counting ).

Morning all! Hope everyone has a lovely day.

My friend had the handles of her handbag pinched at school. Made us laugh. I have the old familiar cramps which signal her arrival but a week early. Naffed off

poor you scaryhairy. The wierdest thing we had nicked from home were ice lollies from the freezer - it wasn't all they took but def the strangest. Year 10 boys nicked tampons from my bag at school - fairly wierd too. TEW? I'd like to sympathise but have no idea...

They took the headlights too, and not the radio (the glovebox had not even been opened) so I think they were just after spare parts, perhaps for their own car, rather than on a general trawl for anything of value. It was the wierdest thing I have ever seen. The police found it pretty strange too!

Oddly enough it will be number 5 DG! My fab and lovely grandson lives with me, DH and myself are his legal guardians. He's 2.5 and is soooo lovely we thought we would try again.Cheers! I'm on wine and alone...sounds very sad indeed...

OOh sorry dg just saw that TEW got you . Well at least there is wine .

Try to keep positive for another round...

Hi everyone and welcome Sandies. DG - poor you having to put up with that at a party...

Am glad to hear that the acupuncture might be helping you. I used acupuncture from about 6 months after my DD was born when I felt terribly out of whack. My periods had come back when she was 14 weeks old, but put in irregular appearances only and I had pains every month or so but no bleeding. I credit the acupuncture with getting me down from 60-90 day cycles to 36 days each time. I think there is lots of value in doing things that feel positive and involve taking care of yourself, and I found acupuncture very relaxing.

I have a tummy ache this evening, which could be AF coming, implantation or stress, frankly. Last night my car was vandalised (some fecker stole the BONNET) and, ok, it's only a car, but it has been a big hassle to deal with today. Plus I saw it happen so have had about 2 hours sleep as I had to deal with the police, get my car taken somewhere safe, find my insurance policy etc etc.

Am having a couple of glasses of wine to calm down and hoping that if my egg is up to anything good it won't mind too much...

I'm continuing to feel sick, but again that could be stress and today, in the work canteen the strong smell of fish nearly made me sick... although it might just have been terribly smelly fish!

Welcome Sandies.

How you doing today dg

OOOh guess what....Finn won first prize HURRAH . He was soo good and clever. I felt so proud!

coolcat I had a mc in Oct. DH couldn't/wouldn't talk about it for ages. I read somewhere that men feel an overwhelming guilt as they watch us go through the symptoms and after effects. I left DH to it and found a friend who had had a mc years before. DH came around and opened up eventually, very emotional.Hope all goes well, don't rush into anything. Very sensible to wait at least a month. I needed that time to mourn and to acknowledge that I had been pregnant - and grieve for all those thoughts, the love and plans I had for the little might.X

postcard from CoolKat

Hello ladies, all seems well in your neck of the woods, hello Sandies, they are a lovely bunch on here, hard to follow as so much happens but great.

As i said last time my bleeding stopped and not used contraception but waiting period befor try again. I feel like m/c not happened to me.Life just continued. Things seem really hard at home me and DH are both so short with one another. I don't think we talked enough about what happened

How did Finn do Bucky? hopefully star of the show, our puppy getting a little better although not convinced!

DG you can not leave the thread, I feel for you as you must be feeling down. Thinking of you.

See you soon Ladies - Love to you all. X

Hi to everyone. I'm very new to mumsnet and the whole TTC thing. Am 36 39 OK, I'm 41, had three kids and thought I would have no problems having one 21 years after the first.....Seemed a perfectly sensible thought at the time!! Been reading the thread for a few nights and can tell yur a fun bunch, can I join? Not many women my age are ttc!!.

I can't see the link DG . The internet gestapo have blocked it...grr. Glad you are still here

Jollybear brown blood is old blood so it could in theory be implantation. Although I think most people see it a little earlier...I had the same thing about the same time as you though so it's possible!

Just popping my head in again. Finn has his Christmas Party at Dog school tonight and he will be (or at least I hope he will be) doing his piece de resistance...putting his toys away in his bed, for his party trick. They all have to do a trick for the last class so wish me luck!!

Waves to all....

07CITW - I can't take credit for GryffinGrinch. That goes to Bucky who suggeste dit. I had a creative name blank!

DG - I am PML at that clip. I love the Muppets!

Hi DG So glad you're still here. How insensitive of people last night they really have no idea. I always squirm when I'm asked "are you having any more" I want to scream YES IF I BLOODY CAN!! But normally say politely hopefully one day. Also someone said " it's about time you had another" and I wanted to say it's about time you minded your business! thats my rant.

I've gone all Chrismasy too

GG love your new Christmasy name, I'm a little uninventive (sp?)

Abby Looked at the thread about how long it took people to conceive. A lot of them seem quite young, made me feel old Some long one's there too. but got there in the end

DG - What a horrible experience. and Hope you feel ok today.

How's everyone else? Any symptoms twinkle, excitable, bucky, anyone else?!

Oh Abby, I love your thread on the Pregnancy board!