WHAT DO WE WANT??...BFPs WHEN DO WE WANT THEM??...NOW!!!! symptom spotters and 2wwaiters brand spanking new thread [grin]

Hello london

The first day of your cycle is usually counted as the first day of proper red flow not spotting (I didn't know that till coming on MN!), so you need to count from then.

What sort of opks are you using? Lots of them are only positive if the second line is as dark or darker than the control line. A faint OPK is a negative. Some other ladies on here know more about OPKs though so may be able to help.

Hi all,
Great new thread, keeping my fingrs crossed for all of you!
I've got a question and no one else can help, so hoping all the knowlegdable gals here will know.

The past couple of months I've had a 31 day cycle ( did't check before that) usually start spoting on the 1st but full blown AF doesn't start until 3rd or 4th. I've looked on Babycentre for both dates and
tried to BD between bothe ov dats. I've also been using OPKs but everytime I;ve tested they've been positive- it's been around 5/6 days! It was even positive yesterday. If I count back 14 days I should have stopped Oving a few days ago. What does this mean? I'm in the states on hols at the moment so aybe their tests are different?

I've been Bd'ing every other day too jet lagged to do anything else, and feel bad as couldn't be bothered to bd last night either!

Hello all,

coolkat (low stage whisper )

GG That is soooooooooo annoying . It wasn't like he rang at 6pm, honestly would it have been that much of a problem to tell him at 1.01!! I really want you to get a BFP. If only it could be done with willpower alone

bucky What a party! I feel exhausted reading about it.

Hatty LOL at the symptoms

MOB Thanks for thinking of me I'm on CD 12 today and will have the scan on Thursday so I may miss the egg if I have a standard cycle but not if I am set for another epic! For a change I'm hoping for a late ov, and the all clear of course. I'll let you know on Friday how I get on.

Bucky don't panic!!!! If you BDed on friday then the swimmers should hang around for a few days (especially in your EWCM ) and then if you BD tonight / tomorrow that should be fine. When do you normally ov? Off the top of my head I can't remember how long your cycles normally are. (MOB slaps herself on the wrist for being a bad virtual friend)

Love the idea of water being bad... more of that champers anyone??

GG stupid hospital - like the results are locked away in a sealed vault except between the hours of 12 and 1??

Well, girls, it looks like taking the MAP is the way forward... sorry, trying not to be unsympathetic, but i do think there could be better places to post for TnotTCers than in amongst the hormonal whirpool that is TTC! (or is it just me...)

hey Bucky - thanks for the sympathy. scary about the water, mind you there's so much out there to scare people!

Bucky, BD, BD, BD til you can BD no more!

Hi Gryffin I Xposted.

at stupid hospital. I have to ring up for dp about when he should take his test in but can never find a place that I can call from. Its not like you can ring up on the train on your way to work...'hello, can you please tell me when you take sperm samples?' . Suppose I better hide in a meeting room and make the call.

That is rubbish though...1.01pm. They probably don't turn on the phone until 12.03pm lazy bastards..... I am in a rage today about incompetant people...don't even get me started on the secretaries in our office and booking meeting room.......

Bucky - please don't worry about being CD15 [encouraging emoticon]. Maybe seduce your DP tonight to make sure?

hello BuckY - glad the party was good

update - DH phoned up for his test results at 1.01pm and was told "we only give out test results between 12 noon and 1pm - please call tomorrow"

he wasn't even aware that you had to call between 12 and 1, 'cause no one had told him and you would think they could bend the rules for erm...like...30 SECONDS

so....tomorrow then (maybe)

OMG i just looked at the waiting room. I am on CD15 and haven't BD'd since last week...Friday night I think? My calm resolve has disappeared and I am freaking out that I have missed yet ANOTHER boat .

My maths is sh*t that should have been 10 hours...so maybe its OK.

Fingers firmly crossed.

07MTW if it was today you were going for that scan, let us know how you got on. Hope everything is fine. .

Pmsl at Hatty and MOB congratulating me on my EWCM. Its not a baby but at least something is coming out of there i suppose .

MrsEi stop working and come visit us please.

Well, the party was a mental as I thought it would be....my friend just gets younger friends as she gets older so that she can keep partying . I think I have only managed to hang in there on the guest list due to my lack of dc!!! I eventually went to bed at 5.30am and they were still going when I got up again at 10.30am to go home !! I had to stop drinking at about 2am though to be able to drive home. I drove home at 12noon but still not convinced that 8 hours was enough to make me legal , but I got home safely anyway. Anyway, am hoping that egg had not hatched and that it didn't get drunk and lose its way as hatching was/is imminent.

Beanie sorry about TEW. . Its not going to make you feel better, but I am 35 and on cycle 10 shock (cycle 18 if you count all the months post mc without contraception!). Anyway, the doctor said it is scarily common for it to take ages these days. Apparently, he believes anyway, that drinking tapwater can be a contributor because of the hormones that aren't filtered out in the cleaning process from other women's contraceptive pills . Anyway, I just wanted you to know that you are not alone and that it might just take a while. Emmsy on the waiting room thread is 43 and having her 5th baby and she only started in her late thirties!!!

hello ladies! I found you after some trawling through old threads

How is everyone this fine February day? I am feeling annoyingly perky, for no particular reason at all. No test results yet for DH, but he is phoning the GP later this afternoon to see if there is any news. I noticed there is an old (now revived) thread running about low sperm count/morphology which has lots of good advice including from Attila The Meercat, who is a bit of an oracle on all things problematic TTC. I think I'll print it off "just in case" so I have it to hand if it is not good news

Hope everyone else is ok. Bucky - so you don't need EWCM?! Brilliant! Maybe I was making a mistake concentrating on that . I know what you mean about having to pass off your MN frineds in RL without sounding flaky!

hello to hatty mibbes MrsEi jolly 07MTW madoldbirdand coolkat* and all the old timers out there. Sorry to anyone missed. Also big hello to anyone I haven't "met" on this thread.

Symptoms today - very sore (.)(.) which (as coolkat says) can mean only one of two things , but otherwise nothing and I do not hold out much hope for a BFP this month 'cause DH and I probably missed the OPK window due to him being away.

hattyyellow LOL at your achey left ear!!

ps coolkat my thumb much better thank you but i have a slight ache in my left ear and therefore am clearly pregnant too

Bucky yay for the EWCM!

coolkat!!!!

mtw are you back from scan yet? hope all okay?

xx

congratulations Coolkat, hope you get the confirmation you want from the doctor

coolkat - whoops!!! that was supposed to say MUSN'T leave us!!!! (aren't typo's a symptom

coolkat can i offer a very tentative and quiet "congrats"! It's sounding promising, but i can understand that you don't want to celebrate yet. Good luck with the doc tomorrow. (Although, if you do another test in the morning before you go, you'd better tell us ) And of course you must leave us!!!!

It is a bit quiet here, isn't it? Is everyone too busy BDing ?! (or maybe working, like i'm supposed to be....)

Where are you all girls, have you moved back to our old thread?

Beanie really sorry AF came,do not worry about age thing I am sure there are loads of owmen on here thinking the same. My BF had twins when she was 38 she was shocked as she had a little boy who was 2. Thinking of you.

Good luck Pink, don't waste to many tests!

Well a little story to bore you with. Day 40, tested and I its was a really faint circle. Left in window and after the 10 mins it was darker.(predictor test) Compared with test from two days ago in bin and def looked different. I have def felt really sore boobs last few days and been weeing more and am sort of excited but not convinced. I am at the docs tomorrow and hopefully she will test to put mind at rest, I am also asking for bloods following m/c in Dec. So I suppose its a BFP, although not celebrating or telling anyone in RL until been doc's tomorrow and perhaps buy another test for morning.
Not leaving you guys though is that ok with everyone?

Sorry for the ramble. X

Good morning ladies. Hope everyone had a good weekend.

Bucky Hurray for your EWCM!!!! The Dr may say it is not important, but we here shall see it as a GOOD thing! Hope you managed to enjoy the party and the night away.

Hi to a lurking mibbes!!!

MTW my fingers are now blue and dropping off as they have been crossed for your scan today. Hope it all goes well - thinking of you.

coolkat i think you said that you may hold off testing until today? Well, have you??!! Am admiring your restraint.

beaniesteve sorry that it sound like AF is on here way.

pinkgirl hope AF turns up, so you know where you are, or, of course, you get a BFP!!

EI are you ok? As someone else said, you seem to have been a bit quiet this weekend. Hope it is just because you have been too busy having a good time to MN.

JB Nice to see you. Thinking of you this week, and your imminent scan. How does the timing look? Do you think you have ov'ed, or will you both be in those hospital toilets No, no sign of AF here yet, but i am only approx 9DPO, so a little early yet. Am going through the "when do i start testing" routine in my head at the moment. Of course, obviously it is sensible to wait until AF is late before testing, but how many of us here do that?? . I guess i could start tomorrow, but i don't know if i can face the thought of a BFN. DH & i are both resigned to the fact that this is not the month - not based on any evidence, just a feeling that we seem to get.

Hello to everyone else that i haven't mentioned.

period came today - that's 2 in one month

Always next month I guess.

i am on on cd 30 still no af and no signs of it impended (crampless and moodyless)
probably be delayed due to coming off pill on jan 23rd

hi beaniesteve sorry to hear that af has arrive
good luck trying for next cycle
hi jollybear
are you trying?

Morning all,

Thanks for the new thread ei

Lots of promising symptom spotting already, good luck all.

mibbes Have you had your Drs appointment yet? Hope you don't stay away too much, we'll miss you.

bucky Hopefully you'll be one of those MNers who get their BFP just after getting started with tests .

MTW Hope everything is good with the scan.

MOB How are you? Hope AF has stayed away.

Beanie Sorry to hear AF has arrived

Hello to everyone else!