Anyone else on CD1 who wants to join me?

Hey again,

I'm good, a little nervous. Heeby my cramps are still happening and making me a bit queezy at times although not sure if that's coz i've worked myself up!

II'm worried it may be AF on her way too, although i agree it's not over till its here!
I've got to test about 8am Friday as DH has to go to college (no not married to a teenager, he's doing an apprenticeship ) so he wants to be there obviously.

I keep moaning that my symptoms are AF and he keeps saying they're PG, bit of a battle! Although one of us will be right. Don't say this very often, but hope im saying "you were right dear" on Friday

Good luck Heeby
How you feeling Sparky?

Exciting stuff - countdown to Friday

I've got to wait till next Friday - not sure how I can make that time go without driving myself insane !

Probably haven't got internet access tonight as I'm away on business again in my favourite Welsh hotel - depends what room they put me in whether I can pick up a wireless connection. So, thought I'd say hello and goodnight now

I am still ridiculously hormonally emotional - nothing else to report really

OMG - so next tests are on Friday? How exciting...

How is everyone?

wannabe hurrah! we can hold hands (whilst holding the pee stick with the other!) doing it. eeek! My DH doesn't want to know at all (in a good way tho) i think he's a little fed up of hearing about all the ailments i've been having lately!

My boob thing is certainly not a main symptom, i've hardly noticed it at all, it's the tummy cramps mainly that have made me wonder. But it could be AF on her way. What are yours like today?

Good luck for friday and the no show of AF prior to that!

I have to say i'm doubtful this month but will keep fingers crossed anyway .... it's not over till the AF lady sings!

xx

AbstractMouse, CD5 AF due ??
MakingaFamily, CD26, AF due ??
Deanychip??

Sparky BFP!!!!
MyLittleBubble, AF due 10th Sept
Heebychick, AF due 10th Sept
Wannabemum, AF due 12th Sept
Funtime, AF due 13 Sep
Nelix AF due 16 Sep
Jools1, AF due 17/18 Sept
Becky, testing due 17/18 Sept
Yellowflowers, AF due 19/20 Sept

Hey Heeby I'm testing Friday morning too!! I booked the day off so no panic if i am of having to come to work and keep quiet. If im not then i don't have to go to work and try and be happy! lol

I'm so nervous though, it's weird. I've had mild cramps today again and am convinced it's AF! although no signs at all of AF. There is nothing with my boobs though which is making me wonder if im not anyway coz everyone else seems to have this as a main symptom!!

DH is desperate for me to test and hs asked me to do it tomorrow. I'm tempted but know it could be too early. I'm so nervous that it may be negative that i dont want to test at all!

AbstractMouse, CD5 AF due ??
MakingaFamily, CD14, AF due ??
Deanychip??

Sparky BFP!!!!
MyLittleBubble, AF due 10th Sept
Heebychick, AF due 10th Sept
Wannabemum, AF due 12th Sept
Funtime, AF due 13 Sep
Nelix AF due 16 Sep
Jools1, AF due 17/18 Sept
Becky, testing due 17/18 Sept
Yellowflowers, AF due 19/20 Sept

I've just realised that if i'm back to a 32 day cycle then we missed the boat entirely this week, tues to thurs would of been a good time in this case and we didn't BD at all at that time! oh dear. lets hope i'm still on that 26 day cycle eh!

Hi ladies,

bubble DPO - Days past ovulation. I know what you mean about having the idea that you haven't done it right, i feel this too. mind you i have been so focused on my other 'symptoms' that i generally feel like it's unlikely for me, no evidence to back this up by the way!!

I had lots of cramps again this morning and last night, and more back ache (but then was lifting heavy sacks of pet food on friday tut tut)

And dare i say it ... my boobs feel different .. oh god!!! i almost don't want symptoms now if that makes sense, as i hate the disappointment that comes on the AF arrival day.

nelix you make me chuckle, first there was not enough, now there's too much, never satisfied huh! tee hee, only kidding, maybe it is a sign for something? not sure why though, like jools said, you do have lots of changes 'down there' when PG so might be linked?

I have decided to take your advice and go inbetween my possible AF dates, according to my previous 3 cycles (which should be the same this month huh??) i should have spotting tomorrow and full AF on wednesday. but according to how i used to be, my AF should be due next Tuesday (16th Sept) so i think i shall do in on Friday if nothing, then i'll be either a few days late or a few days early. I am working for the next 3 days so waiting till friday when i have my next day off will be ok.

Mind you if AF doesn't come tomorow or wed i will be secretly bursting to test!!!!

I had grapefruit juice every day for last ten days and guess what - hardly any ewcm at all this month!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nelix - I am starting to think you spend all day knicker checking . I do wish I was more in tune. I might start making a note so I am more informed next month.

What does DPO mean?

Well my AF is due on Wednesday and I have no symptons of her imminant arrival. Not getting excited just think my cycle is longer than normal. I just don't have the feeling you've done it this month. We were on a mission in the first half of my CD days but then we're pretty lacked later on. Who knows time will tell

Ooh Heeby think i'd be tempted to test at CD26 too! but that's because im impatient. Plus if it is negative you can always do another one later on! (isn't it easy to give out advice?! not so easy to take it though huh? )

Oooh Heeby, I want to say test at CD26 'cos I'm such a nosy old bag, but I suppose I should say wait...sod it, TEST!

Jools the 2ww is such a pain. Being away for the first week has really helped this time, but ds' day in nursery when I'll be by myself is going to be a trial .

Maybe I should get dh to take the clearblue test to work with him .

Oh, and when I had the CP, I had no nausea but did get quite dizzy, spotting at 8DPO, diarrhea and cramps at 7 and 8DPO, lower back pain on one side at 8DPO.

I also had, from around 3DPO, a kind of "fluttering" down below. That, plus killer boobs is what led me to googling symptoms and finding Mumsnet

I've got a while yet !! My average luteal phase is 13 days, so Fertility Friend suggests I test at 14DPO - Sept 19th or 18th, depending on whether I go from the day OV pain started or finished ...

I'm at a wedding on Sept 20th, so would like to know either way before then 2 cycles ago, a CP resulted in a BFP at 11DPO and then an early and very heavy AF - I'd rather not know next time, so will try my hardest not to test early

I don't rate my chances really - only one BD actually in the 3 day most fertile window. However, I am having serious mood swings today - if it was later in my cycle, I'd swear AF was on her way, but I'm only 2 or 3DPO, so too early for any symptoms aswell of-course !!

I was also googling thrush remedies earlier, as I have a bad bout that has come on since Friday and wanted to check I can use Canesten if there is a chance I could be PG - found out it is OK and also found out that thrush is caused by PH changes in the vagina, one of the causes being hormonal changes - another symptom for me to obsess over

Good luck sitting on your hands and not testing - I am full of admiration for your restraint

Hey Jools i keep trying to convince myself that it's not a symptom but i don't listen heehee never mind.

Thanks Heeby, at least im not alone with these weird crampy things, thats a good description though, tightenings. I can honestly say i've never had cramps before my AF and that's not my imagination, but im very aware that it also doesn't mean im pg either. I thought i saw a small brown spot (TMI, sorry!) in my knickers last night but i'm on CD27 now not sure how many DPO as no idea when it was! so surely that's too late for implantation bleeding? plus there is always the possibility (and a big one at that) that it's my mind playing tricks on me too.
So yes looks like it's me and you to test first Heeby eek! still a little undecided about when to do it though. DH wants me to do it tomorrow but if my AF isn't actually due until Sunday then that would be way too early, on the other hand if my AF is due tomorrow then it would be fine. Any advice anyone?!

Oh crikey it is me!!! and bubble!!! trouble is if my cycle is now 26 days (which it has been for 3 months since MC) do i trust that it will be this way from now on, so test from CD26 or do i wait until the previous CD32 which was what i had always been? any thoughts girls??

AbstractMouse, CD5 AF due ??
MakingaFamily, CD14, AF due ??
Deanychip??

Sparky BFP!!!!
MyLittleBubble, AF due 10th Sept
Heebychick, AF due 10th Sept
Wannabemum, AF due 12th Sept
Funtime, AF due 13 Sep
Nelix AF due 16 Sep
Jools1, AF due 17/18 Sept
Becky, testing due 17/18 Sept
Yellowflowers, AF due 19/20 Sept

Hi ladies, wannabe i think we are a kindred spirit this month, i have been having cramps for a few days now, and very different cramps to the pains i'd been having with whatever was/is wrong with me. I've been having a sort of tightening, which is weird, but not getting too excited as have had this all before and it meant nothing ... but these cramps are different! or maybe it's because i know AF is due tues/wed and i'm obviously not being sucessful in pushing the 'am i am i not' though to the back of my mind!!!

I have become an obsessive knicker checker too, i almost want to get some implantation spotting as that might be a sign, but in honesty i dont want anything really! def no AF!!

So according to our list ... who's next?? is it me and wannabe?? eeekkk!! When will you test wannabe? jools nelix what about you guys?

Wanabemum - last month, I was feeling nauseous and dizzy from 6DPO onwards - it was only after the feeling continued after AF arrived that I realised a bug was going round the office

Today I've been ridiculously emotional, crying at things on TV etc and other threads on here - at 2 or 3 DPO, the rational side of me knows there is absolutely no physical way this is a symptom - please somebody tell that to my imagination !

Am off to Wales on business tomorrow, so hoping I can distract myself for at least part of next week !

Ha ha! Then you should feel for me as i only have one loo and the tests are in the cabinet right by the side of the toilet, so i totally understand how you feel but unfortunately do not have any escape!

Oh dear this is the "testing" time in more ways than one. The 2ww is definately the hardest part and now im ALMOST at the stage where i can test im actually dreading a BFN so am too scared to. Was sat downstairs earlier and was convinced that my AF had arrived or was about to because i had the cramps again and then an overwhelming feeling of nausea followed. So took myself off to the loo to a) knicker check, and b) prepare myself for the lovely vomitting action. Needless to say neither occurred and now im even more confused!

oh well, have to pop and see my parents now so will check in again later tonight.
Bye for now xx

I love you Wanabemum and would have your babies if you weren't already busy in that area - martini it is ! I'm not usually superstitious, but am the sort of person whom bad luck follows around, so may be I should be .

Test kits call to you at strange times of day. I'm determined not to use the loo in the upstairs bathroom during the day, but to use the downstairs loo, to avoid being tempted by the pathetic lonely cry of the tests .

Hmm that's a tough one. You seem supersticious so i would buy it and if you are PG then im sure that a wasted bottle of martini would be the last thing on your mind! (or you could give it to someone else!) at least then if you're not PG you will be able to drown your sorrows?

On the Willpower note i can assure you i have very little! im absolutely desperate to test but the only thing stopping me is the result! i've convinced myself that it is too early so the result would be negative anyway then i'd be disappointed! My DH is trying to convince me to test on Wednesday as we go away with his parents for the weekend friday afternoon! eeek!!!

Oh dear, it could all change if im home alone at any point i could be tempted! may have to ask DH to hide the test kits i think!

What willpower Wanabe! I've woken up this morning with sore boobs (usually only the left one is sore in the run up to AF, very odd I know) and some cramping. AF not due until 11th-13th so now getting naughty testing-related thoughts (slaps hand away from the Boots advantage card).

So...problem is, I was cleaning the glasses in the cabinet yesterday and rediscovered my darling martini glasses of pre-ds days. Do I buy some martini during my weekly supermarket trip? If I do, I'll be pregnant and it'll be wasted and I probably shouldn't have a drink now just in case and if I don't, I won't be pregnant and I'll be looking longingly at a wasted opportunity to wallow in pre-baby nostalgia.

If you see what I mean . What shall I do?

Good afternoon ladies,
Welcome back Funtime, glad your DS enjoyed his holiday!

Heeby I've been having cramps too and never had them before until the day before AF arrives but have been having mild cramps on and off since last weekend so never know.

I'm getting a bit nervous now because my AF could arrive anytime this week and im dreading it! I'm so paranoid that everytime i go to the loo im knicker checking! (TMI) although so far so good. Bet my inlaws wondered what I'd been doing to come out of the loo with a smile on my face! (we were up there for lunch today, very nice too).

Hmm im keeping everything crossed for you all ladies and am now starting to sit on my hands because really i could start testing soon as day 28 is tomorrow! but im trying to hols off until Friday

Bye for now xxxx