First time TTC?!! Let's get through this together!! Part 2

Morning Ladies

Well although i had no positive OPK's and the ClearBlue monitor was saying nothing and no EWCM after some advice from you wonderful mumsnetters thought we'd get the boys ahem round before they headed to see Madge so i guess our TTC journey officially started last night WOW

Feeling really calm but also really excited this morning if that makes any sense and on a positive note this morning got a high (not a peak) reading on the ClearBlue (still no +OPK's or EWCM) So am really pleased we yoghurt potted yesterday

Oh Summer, i'm jealous, i'm gonna order some preseed now. What site did you use??

Hever i've got everything crossed for you this morning

Vix you should be able to get a ClearBlue Monitor and testing sticks for about £70 on ebay. Its where i got mine

Happy Baby Making Bank Bonking Holidays Ladies

errrr right yes i am a bit 'fick' it was a free PG test not a monitor - calm down ladies, no calm down stop demanding free monitors from mumsnet

i know nothing about EWCM as i get it anyway, like all the time, i tried to get it sorted out at the hospital (took 5 years of nagging my GP) but they didnt make much of it, just said i had to live with it. So when i see you all getting excited about getting EWCM (and actually trying grapefruit juice to bring it on) on here i just think how lucky you are to actually WANT to have it. Sorry that was a bit of a whinge wasnt it? now onto exciting things....

MY PRESEED HAS JUST ARRIVED - WOOOOO HOOOOOO! bring it on baby!

have a good day ladies!

ok so i'm confused again. According to something i just read women in their 20's can have EWCM for up to 5 days before ovulating and these are the best days to TTC. I thought it was just for one day and that was when you were ovulating so it was best to bd in the run upto this for best chance but was still possible on the day of ovulating. So in that case we are still in the running if we make the most of this BH weekend. Oh it really is ups and downs this TTC, i can't get my head around it all!

FIRST TIME FROLICKERS
Frolicking Fiesta*
BubbaP - Cycle 2 - CD1
Bonifacio - Cycle 1 - CD 7
Hever - Cycle ? - CD?
MAF - Cycle 1 - CD10
Dawn - Cycle 2 - CD? (Mc Augst '08 )
Saz - Cycle 2 - CD10
Vix - Cycle 2 - CD27 DPO 11
Fairywing - Cycle 1 - CD15

2WW
Bluestar - Cycle 2 - CD32 DPO 13
Summerbird - Cycle 6 - CD20 DPO 8
Wildfig - Cycle 2 - CD23

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Flirty - 5 weeks - EDD 24 April 2009

Morning everyone! I am putting myself at Cycle 1 as we didn't actually "try" last month. I hope thats not cheating!!

My mum has left this afternoon, though from the looks of the weather here she will be delayed!

I have all my clothes and stuff out ready to pack for our vacation tomorrow! I'm very excited! Its supposed to be 40 degrees in Muscat at the minute! And bright blue skies!! How lovely!!

DP is at a conference all day so I am sitting on the PC relaxing and listening to Frank Sinatra. Bliss

BSL Hvae a great holiday! I am sure you will be able to connect in Singapore we never usually have a problem!

Hi again everyone. Well this morning theres more EWCM so perhaps i didn't ovulate when i thought i had. Unfortunately DH hasn't been in the mood for any bding for the last couple of days and i'm not going to push it at this early stage so i guess things aren't likely to happen for us this month. I will try seducing him later but i think the last couple of days are when we should have been getting busy aren't they. Oh well never mind i guess the first month would be pretty good going really and there is still a slim chance...

Good luck to Hever
and good vibes for everyone else

Morning Everyone!!

I am up bright and early cos i had the baby stay overnight!! He's adorable, just sat on my knee now giving him his bottle !!
Hever good luck for ur testing this morning, i really hope its another BFP for you!!

BSL hope u hav a great holiday im sooooo jealous!! And hopefully you will have a BFP for us when you get back!!

Summerbird did you mean free clearblue monitor or pg test?? I am planning on buying the cb monitor today, but they r v expensive about £100, so if there are any free ones going i think we all want one!!

BIG hello to everyone else, hope u r all looking forward to ur bank holiday wkend!!

My spotting stopped last night so am now on cd 28 but may change to cycle d1 , i will keep an eye on it and will update my chart a bit later!!

xx

Oooh, yes, nearly, summerbird - I'm 7DPO... [fingers crossed icon]

good vibes everyone
//////////////// (havent sent them for a while!)

vix i told DH about your own DH holding your legs up - he thought that was hysterical, i demanded the same treatment!!!!

oo wildfig we are on roughly the same cycle, we might even synch as my 14 DPO will be 3 days early...

am eagerly awaiting our preseed and free clearblue monitor, i love mumsnet for the freebies!

BSL hope you are quaffing the champagne now as we speak - la-di-daaaaaa

hello to everyone else (summerbird waves madly at everyone) i am off for some quality time with DH mind you i bet we dont as i am the same as BSL in that we are usually so knackered after OV day!

Hi girls

Thanks for the lovely messages today.

I've updated my stats below... good to know where everyone is at!

FIRST TIME FROLICKERS
Frolicking Fiesta
BubbaP - Cycle 2 - CD1
Bonifacio - Cycle ? - CD?
Hever - Cycle ? - CD?
MAF - Cycle 1 - CD10
Dawn - Cycle 2 - CD? (Mc Augst '08 )
Saz - Cycle 2 - CD10
Vix - Cycle 2 - CD27 DPO 11
Fairywing - Cycle 1 - CD15

2WW
Bluestar - Cycle 2 - CD32 DPO 13
Summerbird - Cycle 6 - CD20 DPO 8
Wildfig - Cycle 2 - CD23

FULLY PROFICIENT FROLICKERS
Flirty - 5 weeks - EDD 24 April 2009

I'm not feeling too this evening - it was only cycle 1 and at least now I know I'm not PG I can carry on as normal for the next couple of weeks! And it's bank holiday and it's sunny here today!

xxx

FIRST TIME FROLICKERS
Frolicking Fiesta
BubbaP - Cycle ? - CD1
Bonifacio - Cycle ? - CD?

MAF - Cycle 1 - CD10
Dawn - Cycle 2 - CD? (Mc Augst '08 )
Saz - Cycle 2 - CD10
Vix - Cycle 2 - CD27 DPO 11
Fairywing - Cycle 1 - CD15

2WW
Bluestar - Cycle 2 - CD32 DPO 13
Summerbird - Cycle 6 - CD20 DPO 8
Wildfig - Cycle 2 - CD23
Hever - Cycle 1 - CD 39 DPO13

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Flirty - 5 weeks - EDD 24 April 2009

Dawn- I am still holding out, I have 4 HPTs now!! 2 FR and 2 Digital!!! Want to test tom morning but I dont really know what I expect the outcome to be. I had a really high temp this morning but I have been having really bad af pains and a backache. If I am pregnant I am worried something is not as it should be because my (.)(.) are less painful than they were.

FIRST TIME FROLICKERSFrolicking Fiesta
BubbaP - Cycle ? - CD1
Bonifacio - Cycle ? - CD?
Hever - Cycle ? - CD?
MAF - Cycle 1 - CD10
Dawn - Cycle 2 - CD? (Mc Augst '08 )
Saz - Cycle 2 - CD10
Vix - Cycle 2 - CD27 DPO 11
Fairywing - Cycle 1 - CD15

2WW
Bluestar - Cycle 2 - CD32 DPO 13
Summerbird - Cycle 6 - CD20 DPO 8
Wildfig - Cycle 2 - CD23

FULLY PROFICIENT FROLICKERS
Flirty - 5 weeks - EDD 24 April 2009

Grapefruit juice WORKS. Seriously. Although I don't know about temping; I keep waking up an hour before I usually do, taking my temperature, wondering if I should wait until 7am, then wonder if I moved around too much finding the thermometer, then take it again at 7.15am and wonder if it's 'right' and which one is 'better' - is appalling to be trying to cheat at temperature charts, for God's sake. DH has taken to asking me 'how my temperature is?' each morning, as if I'm likely to say, it's up to 43 degrees, and that means I'm definitely cooking a baby in here. I know all the books say not to tell your DH the details about your temping/baby-making skullduggery, but to be honest, I think he's actually more excited about the science-projectiness about temp charts than he is about limitless BDing. I haven't mentioned cervical positions or anything. I bet I'd come home to find he'd bought some kind of microscope.

FIRST TIME FROLICKERS
Frolicking Fiesta
BubbaP - Cycle ? - CD1
Bonifacio - Cycle ? - CD?
Hever - Cycle ? - CD?
MAF - Cycle 1 - CD10
Dawn - Cycle 2 - CD? (Mc Augst '08 )
Saz - Cycle 2 - CD10
Vix - Cycle 2 - CD27 DPO 11
Wildfig - Cycle ? - CD?
Fairywing - Cycle 1 - CD15
2WW
Bluestar - Cycle 2 - CD32 DPO 13
Summerbird - Cycle 6 - CD20 DPO 8

FULLY PROFICIENT FROLICKERS
Flirty - 5 weeks - EDD 24 April 2009

Hi All,

Sorry haven't been in touch the last 24 hours, really crap time at work. Redundancy exercise that I'm heading up and trying to get all the quotes and letters out is a bloody nightmare!!!

Oh well, back to it, thought I'd just have a quick check through and see how things are going.

Waiting to hear on how hever is doing and whether you're re-testing.

Hope bean is Ok Flirty.

Big hugs and kisses to you all and I'll talk more later!!

xxx

aaw thanks girls, i dont know what id do without you all!! My dp is great and handles all of this in his own way, and that is by not talking about it much!! He will listen and give advice when I need him to but to him its not the first thing he thinks about and the last thing he thinks about!!
He has had to do tests to check his swimmers and he found that stressful enough lol!!

My mum is great though , so im very lucky in that way!!

I'll keep checking my AF and if the wicked witch gets red by the end of today i'll change my chart to CD1.

Im gonna stay positive for next month, and im going to use all of the below to make sure i do get a BFP!!!!

1. Drink grapefruit juice
2. Have lots of BDing especially from days 8 - 20
3. Use pre seed
4. Use clearblue fertility monitor
5. Use OV sticks
6. Use basale thermometer
7. Keep legs up in air afterwards ( bless my DP he holds them up for me cos im too lazy ha ha )

Think ive got it covered, if ive missed anything let me know!! Not that im obsessed or anything!!

xx

Sorry Vix!
I agree with Bluestar... that CD29 could turn into CD1. I used to often have this...as soon as it was red blood, I counted it as CD1.
Glad you and DP had a good chat...really important to share the stress, whether it's with him (best situation!) or on here...
Success next month would mean a lovely May baby for you! How lovely...

F.x

FIRST TIME FROLICKERS**Frolicking Fiesta
BubbaP - Cycle ? - CD1
Bonifacio - Cycle ? - CD?
Hever - Cycle ? - CD?
MAF - Cycle 1 - CD10
Dawn - Cycle ? - CD?
Saz - Cycle 2 - CD10
Vix - Cycle 2 - CD27 DPO 11
Wildfig - Cycle ? - CD?
Fairywing - Cycle 1 - CD15
2WW
Bluestar - Cycle 2 - CD32 DPO 13
Summerbird - Cycle 6 - CD20 DPO 8

FULLY PROFICIENT FROLICKERS
Flirty - 5 weeks - EDD 24 April 2009

Hi girls,

Just been to the loo and think my AF is defo on way as there is a bit of spotting and period pains But my doc told me to count cycle day 1 from the first day of my heavy period, so i think im still on d27?! And i have been trying for far too long, well casually trying if theres soooo such thing?! Me and dp had REAL serious conversation and decided to PROPERLY try last month, so i think i might just put my next cycle as cycle 2 as it makes me feel better, is this OK??!!

Aaw Bubbap Im sorry about your AF, but make sure you enjoy yourself over the BH wkend!! Think ill be joining u tomorrow hun!!

I am going to cheer myself up by treating myself to a clearblue fertility monitor.... ooh exciting or what!!
And im looking after my dp's sisters little baby tonight he is only 13 weeks , so that will cheer me up!! Until i take him home lol

Anyway i'll stop babblin and fill in my chart . . .. .

Yeay MAF CD buddies!!

Ooh...thought of a useful modification for keeping track...

Come on ladies...can't WAIT for you all to join me!

FIRST TIME FROLICKERS Frolicking Fiesta
BubbaP - Cycle ? - CD1
Bonifacio - Cycle ? - CD?
Hever - Cycle ? - CD?
MAF - Cycle 1 - CD10
Dawn - Cycle ? - CD?
Saz - Cycle 2 - CD10
Vix - Cycle ? - CD?
Wildfig - Cycle ? - CD?
Fairywing - Cycle 1 - CD15
2WW
Bluestar - Cycle 2 - CD32 DPO 13
Summerbird - Cycle 6 - CD20 DPO 8

FULLY PROFICIENT FROLICKERS
Flirty - 5 weeks - EDD 24 April 2009

Morning Ladies

FIRST TIME FROLICKERS
BubbaP - Cycle ? - CD1
Summerbird - Cycle 6 - CD20 DPO 8
Bonifacio - Cycle ? - CD?
Hever - Cycle ? - CD?
Bluestar - Cycle 2 - CD32 DPO 13
MAF - Cycle 1 - CD10
Dawn - Cycle ? - CD?
Saz - Cycle 2 - CD10
Vix - Cycle ? - CD?
Wildfig - Cycle ? - CD?
Fairywing - Cycle 1 - CD15

FULLY PROFICIENT FROLICKERS
Flirty - 5 weeks - EDD 24 April 2009

Morning Ladies

FIRST TIME FROLICKERS
BubbaP - Cycle ? - CD1
Summerbird - Cycle 6 - CD20 DPO 8
Bonifacio - Cycle ? - CD?
Hever - Cycle ? - CD?
Bluestar - Cycle 2 - CD32 DPO 13
MAF - Cycle 1 - CD10
Dawn - Cycle ? - CD?
Saz - Cycle 2 - CD10
Vix - Cycle ? - CD?
Wildfig - Cycle ? - CD?

Oh Saz we're the same CD

allo saz (just called you sax by typo - rather cooooool in a jazzy way!) we missed ya! i know what you mean about BFN making you feel a bit better, i get that sometimes, specially if i have something organised like an activity weekend or something!