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

Hi Dawn, I am in sunny Brixham, so not too far!
Hi Summerbird - well I hope in a way we are not cycle buddies as I hope you get a BFP next week, but if not - great to know I am not alone. Maybe 8 times the charm? x

dawn i am so anxious for you now! would Lloyds TSB who are taking over HBOS honour the offer? sorry i dont know much about financial institutions and policies etc.

heylottie we are almost cycle buddies in that i am moving onto cycle 8 if AF arrives next week.

babydust and anti-recession dust for us all
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Heylottie,

So whereabouts are you at the moment? We're still in Chudleigh Knighton until we move...

So, news on the house, the Estate Agent called yesterday to say that they are 99% sure that the vendors are going to accept our offer. That's the good news, but now the not-so-good news.... Because of the announcement about HBOS this morning, I don't know now whether we will get the mortgage. Basically the mortgage that we want is with RBSG as they are the only bank that will let you use a personal loan as part deposit. We only have 5% at the moment and were going to borrow the other 5% on a personal loan.

If anyone knows anything about the impact of mergers, I'd like to know whether they will still continue to trade as before for the forseeable future? Any advice gratefully received....

xxx

Hi girls. Gosh, pretty much everyone has had a difficult month, with work and wotnot - I hope September ends with some bfps to keep eveyones spirits up!
Fairywing - your AFs sound terrible. I thought I had bad period pain but nothing compared to you. You poor thing.

And Dawn - I am not a stalker promise! But I think I live really close to you - so when we DO have babies we have a ready made mother and baby group!

And talking of AF - she arrived this morning, two days early. The only benefit I can think of is that I haven't wasted a pregnancy test.

So - moving on to cycle 8. And waiting for my day 21 (now day 19 if that makes sense) blood tests results, which won't be accurate now anyway.

Happy Days!!!!

Also is East Enders a soap?? Like Corrie? The only British soap we get is Coro street, and I used to HATE it, but as of last year I started watching it and LOVE it. I feel like geeks and old dolls are the one ones here that watch it, but I can't help it, I got sucked in. LOL

Hey ladies. Hope everyone had a great day. I've just laid down in bed (laptop) and so the hot flashes begin. Thats been the only negative side effect I've had from the Clomid. I've heard about blinding headaches, but thankfully, I've had none of that to speak of. It's funny I always imagined a hot flash was simply getting warm, but now I know they are indeed dreadful. It's like an oven turns on inside you. YUCK!
Blue Churchill, Manitoba is a really neat place. I've never been but I've friends who have seen the polar bears on a tour. They said it was quite an experience.We'll all have to meet up there someday with our little ones in tow!!
xoxox

BSL Its my endometriosis that makes my AF's so horrid. This was only the second since my latest treatment. The first was good, this one was horrid. My endo is wide spreabut the worst of it grows into my bladder so its painful when it fills and empties. Like peeing shard of glass....nice!! This month i have had that and the constant sensation that there is not enough room in my pelvis and its all trying to escape!!! Its starting to ease up now though so another couple of days and it should have passed. Fingers crossed there will be no AF next month. This was one of the things i was worried about with TTC. I normally run the pill together for 3 months at a time so i don't have to go through this for every month. I just hope TTC doesn't go on too long.

hi girls, BSL and wishin i havent heard of white peak but i too love Alderley Edge, i dont live too far from that (just outside of the 'golden triangle' tho my house is nowhere near that price range!) you could drive a mile down the road and double the price of property.

BSL we have had public swing that idea by us before, i would love to have a 'great doctor' database but they wont have it, shame really!

we had a lovely meal tonight and a cheeky BD! although i am 5DPO it might still have hung around! we managed a few around OV date so fingers crossed!

night night x

hi all. I have just finished marking and am really tired so off to bed just wanted to pop in!

Dawn I have had similar dreams to that (usually when I'm stressed about other things and I usually walk in on the dirty deed!) I usually wake up weepy and then y the time Dh wakes up I am pretty mad and give him a good telling off and a non too subtle warning LOL. He finds it bizarre as he is really shy and just wouldn't do that (he gets more upset than I do!) anyway, just thought I'd let you know you're not alone. I have worked out I have dreams like that when I feel that everything is going pants. I guess that would be the WORST thing that could happen so strangely when I wake up and get over sulking it puts All my other 'problems' into perspective!

Anyway, I am literally fLling to sleep here but will speak to you all soon

BSL, I would love some advice in setting up my home-page please!!

Waves and kisses to everyone else. On CD15 now and BDd for the last 3 nights. Normally on a 35 day cycle but all my EWCM an OV pains have pointed to reverting back to a 28 day cycle which will be great, although does mean that we may have not BDd enough this month... Although think I OVd yesterday so the last 3 nights should have sent enough troops in.

Of course I'll probably find out now that they were all twinges that I was having and I'll actually OV next week, so we'll keep BDing every other night now and see what happens...

Still work unfortunately so need to get back to it.

Hope everyone is Ok today!!

xxx

Hi ladies, Haven't been around for a week or so, so congrats to Saz

I'm on day 9 of my cycle now. Had a horrid time with AF this time so am still recovering a bit but about to start bd'ing again. Unfortunatley i have to go away on a course for a couple of days next week, right when i'm meant to be bd'ing so i'm a bit about that. Will have to put extra effort in before and after i go .

Summer, are you in white peak?

Thankfully not wishin i live in Manchester and sadly the city seems to hang onto the fact that they spawned Corrie and Take That/Oasis and they aint ever gonna shut up about it!! On the plus side we do have the Peak District on our doorstep, possibly the most beautiful piece of countryside ever.

Canada is a pretty great place to live. I live in the Maritimes in New Brunswick in a city called Saint John. The only downfall here is a lack of resources. I may have to travel to Moncton, if my unexplainable infertility continues. But it'll all be worth it.
I'm so jealous of all you gals in the UK. That's me and DH dream holiday. Is life there really like Coronation Street LOL???

oh dawn you poor thing! i had a similar dream like that about DH once and he needed to give me lots of hugs too!

vix scuse the french expletives but your SIL sounds like a right bitch!!

wishin yep most of us are in UK with exception of jeepney you will have to tell us tales of Canada as i have never been but would love to.

Hey girls,

I had a really horrible dream last night too! I think it was because BDing is starting to feel like a chore, as someone else commented on...

So my dream was that my DH, was BDing with some other blonde woman NEXT TO ME IN BED!! But weirdly, I had a friend sitting the other side of me in bed (???) who told me not to interrupt them because it was Ok for them to be doing that!!! But do you know, the worst thing was that he was looking really lovingly at her. OMG!! I had to have a cuddle with him this morning before he went to work because it made me feel really insecure....

So, have no idea what's happening with my chart. I'm on Fertility Friend but haven't paid for the upgrade. I think I may have OVd yesterday as I'd been having EWCM since Sunday and then real pains yesterday. I also had a temp dip yesterday, from 36.5 to 36.4 and then today back up to 36.5 again. But I really don't know what I'm looking for so I've posted my chart on "here" .

xx

Hi Ladies. Good Morning from Canada!!!I get the impression alot of you gals are in UK?? I could be WAY off base there.
Anyways. Not sure when I ovulated. According to the clomid calculator it was between 6th and 11th of September. No symptoms yet, but maybe it's too early yet? I can say I am absolutely exhausted. Like tired ina way I've never been. And last week near the end of the week I was cramping really bad, liek i was sure AF was coming, but nada. Now the cramping has subsided. this morning I had a pimple under my nose, which has happened about once in my life at age 14 (for real). So thats about all the symptoms I got. even with those I feel like I'm reaching, and looking for things that may not be there.

Oh, and I had a dream the other night that I'd gone through a 40mph speed camera on the M40 roadworks at 72mph, and got 6 points. I even had that very specific feeling you get when you think, 'Damn, if only I could go back 2 minutes and have this not happen...' When I woke up, I was THRILLED. So, please, for the same of my licence, let's just pretend dreams don't predict anything, ok?!

I have zero symptoms today and my chart is doing exactly what it did last month when I wasn't pregnant either, so am not holding out any hopes, to be honest! We probably didn't BD enough either, although Fertility Friend generously awarded us a 'good' on our intercourse analyser (honestly, if you're not on Fertility Friend, GET ON IT. Any traces of romance connected with the whole baby-making process will soon be stripped away, as your efforts are marked out of ten and you're told off for sleeping through your alarm and taking your temperature late. It's like having your GP nagging you through cyberspace.)

linwin I'm crossing my fingers that out of this chaos comes something new and better for you. And that summerbird and BSL have career dust as well as babydust!

And a general at the GPs. I've had some great GPs and some crashingly insensitive ones - if only there was some way of rating them in public, like on Amazon. Then they'd get their bedside manners polished up.

ha ha yeah, now FAR TMI but i dreamt last night that my SIL ( who i dont really get on with ) had left her sanitary pad in my bin and when i seen it it had brown spotting on it, so i took it to my mam to see if she thought she was pregnant!! Very Strange!!!!

SIL ( well bro's gfriend ) is not a v nice person. She loves the fact i am having problems conceiving. She is always making sarc. comments and saying things like "ooooh i might b pregnant" etc etc.

vix hoooorah for clomid! fantastic news - you go girl!!

i lost my other granddad to BC 10 years ago and it was hard, so i do sympathise with you. x

i have no symptoms whatsoever, i had a dream last night that i had implantation bleed and was panicking! then when i woke up i thought it was really happening! we are all having crazy dreams at the moment arent we?

Morning Everyone!!

I have just wrote a really long post and then it wouldnt send and it hasnt saved aaaahhh!!

Linwin sorry 2 hear about ur situation, im glad ur feelin a bit more positive today!!

Summerbird hurrahh for ur Grandad. I lost my Grandad to bowel cancer 8 years ago, and it was truly awful. I was very close to him and still miss him andthink about him evry day.

Flirty how did ur appointment go??

Summerbird Wildfig and BSL how are my cycle buddies doing today??!! Well i have had no symptoms apart from one sore nipple, and a sore throat.... think i may be clutching at straws!! Also i dont think we bd'd enought this month so not too hopeful for a BFP

Anyway I had some good news this morning, i got my blood test results back from my CD21 progesterone test, and it was level 98!! Last month it was 34. so it means the clomid tablets are definetley working!!