The WIMBEWAIF and WIMBEWAINF 2WW club, new and existing members welcome.

SH YAY!!!

I checked in early this morning as i had a feeling there would be some news!!! I have everything crossed that this will be a lovely sticky one. But you have had some good symptoms, and obviously had a good, quick result - so it all looks great for you. (Am mentally supergluing that tiny cluster of cells into a lovely, cosy, snuggly spot for the required number of months)

Haven't read the other posts from the last day or so, but i will do so and be back later. Am off to have a celebratory cup of tea for SH

Um, BFP ladies
And with my freebie CBD too.
Cross everything for this one to stick.

MarieCharlie lol I was like that with my wedding...had to fight obsession all the way and ended with just not telling my DH the full extent. But tried really hard to not get obsessed the first few months of ttc, and then decided I needed to get proactive. And while there's still no BFP I definitely have a much clearer sense of what's going on with my body, which can only be a good thing

SH I love a Prayer for Owen Meany, such a lovely lovely read. I've read lots of John Irvine and that's definitely my favourite. And I'm also struggling with Underworld...it sits on my shelves making me feel guilty for not finishing it yet! Any more symptoms to report young lady? I saw your thread about FR...interesting that so many women only get faint faint lines with them.

GG your library room sounds like heaven! Enjoy Alias Grace (my favourite Atwood) and The Corrections (another really good book). It's good to leave hyped books aside til the fuss dies down I reckon, that way you can form an honest opinion and not just whatever the consensus is. And poor you with your bruised arm. I'm on your behalf at the thoughtless people on the tube. And yes, I'd love a space age cycling helmet!

Bucky have you resisted testing? I admire your will power if so...

waves to MOB & Ei & PnM & Lou & all our pregnant graduates.

Thanks Caitni...you are probably right. I think I was trying to keep the man from thinking im obsessive. I've gone that way with my wedding and always thouht I was a modern girl who would get married in a paper bag in the middle of a beach with no family.

Oh, I love "The Handmaid's Tale".
The worst book I ever read (so one to avoid) is "Underworld" by Don Delilo. I had never met a book I couldn't finish before, but by page 300 none of the characters had met and, basically, nothing had happened. This is the only book that ever defeated me (sob).

Do you like John Irvine? "A prayer for Owen Meany" is one of my favourite books - I'd recommend it if you haven't read it.

I like the 2WW book club - am always on the look out for inspiration re what to read next!

hello all

welcome to mariecharlie and welcome back from your holidays lou. Hope you had a lovely time somewhere sunny.

Ooooh, good book suggestions ladies! Thank you . I couldn't get on with "We need to talk about Kevin". I probably didn't give it much of a go, but i felt like I was wading through treacle when I read it and that dreamy introspective style grated on me. It takes about 20 pages for her to get through the supermarket check out !. Maybe I should give it another go. I've got Alias Grace (Margaret Atwood) ready for the trip and also The Corrections (Jonathan Frantzen) both of which I bought a few years ago and promptly forgot about, meanwhile everyone else has read them! I have a room in my flat with shelves from floor to ceiling along three walls, all full of books, so it's easy for some to slip through the net! DH has imposed a "one in, one out" policy on books because he said there would eb no room for him

Ei - glad to hear we are cycle buddies this month . Ha, does that mean we're on a tandem cycle . Nothing to report here. CD6 for me. I had my injections last night for Indonesia and I feel really yucky [bleugh emoticon]. My arm looks like Mike Tyson has repeatedly punched it and then left me outside for hours to get the worst kind of sunburn . I cried and cradled my arm this morning when one big beefy bloke with computer bag bumped into me on the tube this morning. Grrr, all this misery and it's not even a BFP symptom

scary - if you had eaten what I had for lunch from our canteen you'd have gagged too. never touch the moussaka (sp?) . I'm not put off by R&J Book Club picks. Apart from The Gathering Light, I recently read The Handmaid's Tale (good, but difficult) by Margaret Atwood and Winter In Madrid by CJ Sansom (good, but a little unsatisfying) - sorry everyone didn't mean to turn it into the 2WW book club. TTC WARNING - addictive books may prevent BD-ing by keeping you so engrossed you don't want to do it with your DP's

caitni - I am addicted to the Olympics too! Are you getting one of those space age cycle helmets for your ride to work in the morning?

Bucky - lunch would be great. Will email you! When are you testing now you have bought a siny twin set of tests!?

hello to everyone else on the thread. Big wave to MOB and the bun in the over crowd of 2WW graduates!!!

MarieCharlie I so know the pain of checking out random sites about ttc!! Never thought I'd know so much about cervix, CM etc . I'd recommend Taking Charge of your Fertility, it's very informative and a good read. I'd also recommend Fertility Friend if you want to chart your BBT.

SH & Bucky fingers crossed for you both xx

Guys! My lunch just made me gag!
It's a SIGN

Leg-ache? Poor Bucky.

Am glad to hear that the Kevin book is not Mis-lit. All that "Woe is me. Here's the gory detail of my appalling childhood" is not my idea of a nice beach read!

I read "The Interpretation of Murder" (by someone whose name I have forgotten) a couple of holidays ago and that was a good one. Also "The Savage Garden" (by an equally forgettably-named writer) was nice to read in the sun. Both are Richard and Judy Book Club books, but don't let that put you off GG!

I am on 12 dpo and my temp is still nice and high but I am trying very hard to avoid getting my hopes up. I certainly have no symptoms, I think.

Higs to all.

damn where is my smiley!

Oh goodness i've got no idea about cycles yet. I have come off the pill and keeping my fingers crossed. Saying that I've already been on every website in the world telling me all about mittelschmerz ...what a name, what my cervix should feel like at differnt times. So I think the obsessions may be starting early!!!!!!! (shock)

hi ladies
wowee you lot have been chatty today
hello and welcome to mariecharlie i think the other girls summed this thread up quite nicely its lovely on here all of the girls are fab
i will catch up properly with everyone tomorrow
GG sorry AF got you but on the bright side it looks like we are cycle buddies my last 2 cycle buds got their BFPs so heres hoping im a lucky charm for you too
xx ei xx

Hi Lou glad to have you back from hols! And glad your DH have even more nymphoness ahead

Bucky maybe SH means misery lit? Something I'm also not a fan of, but I don't think Lionel Shriver's book is mis-lit...SH Small Island is excellent.

Hi MarieCharlie and welcome to MN. There are lots of wonderful people on here so hope you find whatever advice/support you're looking for xx

Can I just say I am totally addicted to the Olympics. I'm planning to put the cycling on in the office tomorrow morning (the joys of working in a place where watching "news" counts as "work" ). I've already decided to go to just about everything in 2012. I swear, I'll be suffering withdrawal symptoms when it's all over...

Clearly I spoke too soon.

Ooooh this thread has got busy suddenly.

Welcome back Lou. Does your DH know what's coming?!

GG I'm like you and read a book a day on a longhaul holiday (or at least I did before I had a small person to deal with; now I am lucky if I can do the crossword!). If I were going on holiday now I would be getting:

Chasing Harry Winston (by the person who wrote The Devil Wears Prada)
Something (not sure what) by Ian McEwan

Small Island by Andrea Levy

A Brief History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

And then a load of airport paperbacks!

Bucky is the Lionel Shriver one mis-lit? I can't stand that genre...

Caitni you sound very positive about things which is great. I reckon forgetting the thermometer when you go away is a really good idea. This cycle my temps were all over the place, a lot of which was to do with travel, I think...

Mariecharlie Hello and welcome to MN. I am trying to figure out how to describe our group.... Well basically, there are a lot of ttc (conception) threads and some of them have a lot of members posting. Some of the members from one of the bigger threads decided to start this one for people on their 2 week wait, from between ovulation to your period (or, better yet, your positive pregnancy test!). So we hang around here moaning about how we hate the two week wait. These days most of us now seem to post here throughout our cycles and not just in the 2ww. We support each other through all sorts of things, some conception and pregnancy related, some not and sometimes we get together and drink too much gin. Anyway, don't let that rambling put you off; if you'd care to join us you are very welcome.

Hello ladies, back from hols, lovely...
Hope you are all okay?
Back to proper TTC this month - very excited! Not sure about DH! He thinks I'm a nympho as it is!

sorry to intrude ladies. I have just joined this site, and was amazed at how many groups there are supportung each other, may I ask what your group is about?

Bucky yet more authors/titles for me to check out - yay! I've only read Mailer's The Naked and the Dead so would love to read more of his stuff.

GG I'd have to say that Richard Yates' Revolutionary Road (originally published in the 60s) is just amazing, head and shoulders above most things I've read this year (it's also being made into a film by Sam Mendes, if you like to read the books before the films...). Easter Parade by him is also excellent. Otherwise, Cormac MacCarthy is pretty stunning (though also not neccesarily upbeat). I recently read and loved Evening is the Whole Day by Preeta Samarasan (a debut writer from Malaysia, not quite Bali but definitely closer to that part of the world). I've just started Nicola Barker's Darkmans and it's proving excellent already (nice and thick as well, I like long books on holidays). OK, enough rambling from me!