The Grapefruit drinking knicker checking ttc brigade

Happy Halloween everyone!!

Aww Ellie that was slushy and probably hormone related but what girl doesn't like a bit of slush?! Take care over the weekend and get your DP to wait on you xx

Pezzina let me know hoe the plan works out for you! I'm a bit of a late starter as im on CD17 so missed the CD8 part (oh well!) but will definately do the 3 days in a row and miss one then another "Go" during OV. DH will be pleased!
Looking positive on the OV front too, had a small amount of EWCM today and still only showing "high" on fertility monitor so when DH is home tomorrow may be able to start "trying" again, yay!

Heeby im starting to get excited for you now! Keeping fingers tightly crossed for you. When are you testing? You should put your test date next to your AF due date on our list!!

Ellie am loving the slush - everyone on this post seem super lovely . I hope your weekend doesn't prove to be too stressful.

wasabipeanut I've only just started taking EPO this month so haven't noticed any changes so far - too early to tell - but will let you know if I do.

Heeby sound promising! I do hope you have good news soon. When are you thinking of testing?

Well, I'm looking forward to the weekend. I'm on CD8 and my DH and I will definitely be following the Deanna plan closely from here on in

Elliegant well I'm sorry to hear AF has arrived but hopefully you are in a positive mood after reading the Deanna plan. I have just read it and think its great - makes a lot of sense actually.

Heeby - I am hopig to hear good news early next week! Little sharp pains are a symptom so fingers crossed.

Well in accordance with Deanna plan dh and I have been trying the every other night strategy (although didn't realise you had to start as early as day 8). Got a positive OPK this morning and will check again pm so we should have a fun weekend!

My dates are out now though - everything seems to have happenned several days late this month. Could it be something to do with EPO? I upped my dose at the beginning of the month and am starting to think that this somehow caused my freakishly long AF and delayed cycle.

Has anyone experienced this?

Oh, one more thing..

Have been a MNer on and off for about 4 years and you lovely bunch have made me feel more welcome and at home in the last few days than i have felt in all that time.

Blimey, that was a bit slushy must be the hormones!

Morning Ladies,

Thanks for all the support guys.

Wannabe, same here about Deana plan, really eye opening and like you feel a bit more positive. Thanks again for the link Heeby.

Mom and Stepdad arriving shortly to spend weekend so will be slightly stressful to say the least, will try and check in on you all though.

Best go and clean up before they get here, all I really want to do is snuggle on sofa with my Tigger hot water bottle as have got bad cramps this morning!

Keep positive all and have a wicked halloween

Evening ladies,

wanabe yes i was totally motivated from the plan and read it on CD8 so could implement it straight away! we had a BDfest for 4 days CD11-CD14 after reading that we should be more 'pro'active', i love the plan and it made so much sense! Let's hope Monday brings the proof that it works!

I was having my hair cut tonight and had 2 quite sharp 'stabs' in my tummy, not pain but quite weird - can only pray that it's a little bub burrowing in!

Realised this afternoon that i can test now with an early test!!! not going to tho!! i always get spotting on CD25 and then AF on CD26 (only one month was CD28 out of 5 months of 26 days) so will be knicker checking sunday!

Hello again,

Must say I just read the Deanna plan and wow! how informative. Made me quite positive actually. Highly recommended! I've just printed the info from your link heeby so will show DH when he gets home. Get him to join the commitment!
At least now I have a "fool proof" plan that i can stick to every month so i know im being consistent!

Oh well ladies, im off to make a cuppa (decaf of course!) and to watch silent witness. Speak soon xxxxx

Hey pezzina glad it made you chuckle. It's true though to be fair!

We had a nightmare last Friday ladies, anyone remember me saying my DH went to Dr to ask for a sperm test? Anyway, he did this and the dr gave hime a sample jar and told him to take it straight down to the hospital once it was done. So muggins here ended up doing the run to the lab only to be told "you have to make an appointment" and "no-one is here to test it today". So as you can imagine i was REALLY pleased about that! So he has to ring and book an appointment, make a sample, and get it to the hospital in less than an hour. I've told him he can do it next time

Heeby don't be negative just yet, you never know. Positivity is the ONLY way i can survive this so c'mon ladies!!!!

Elligant im sorry your AF has arrived, what an evil witch Never mind honey, maybe you will get your BFP for Christmas?

Just checking on progress, as I'm twiddling my thumbs this month and sorry to hear that AF is here Elliegant.

Good luck to anyone testing his weekend.

thanks elliegant think we all need lots of it

Hello all

Wanabemum I've just read what you said about your DH's possibly pickled swimmers and it made me chuckle out loud

Heeby and Ellie I'm definitely with you on the DH front - mine doesn't talk about it very much and it was only when I was having a huge rant about it all last month that he explained how much he hopes for a bfp each month as much as I do but doesn't know how to show it. Bless the strong silent types!

Heeby, Think your probably right about DH, mine is pretty laid back and tries to take everything in his stride. I know he wants it as much as I do I just don't think he likes to show when he is upset - the strong silent type!

Pinkie, thanks for baby dust, am sending some back your way

Hi Heeby and all.

Having an understanding dr does really help. His secretary is really nice as she had trouble ttc so she always tries to get him to call me etc.

The sperm meets egg plan says 14 days after +ive opk. That was thurs last week CD14 so am thinking would be correct to wait til end if i can manage it.

Am managing not to sympton spot but then dont feel anything anyway so maybe not my month.

I usually get small amount of show/spotting couple of days before AF so if that happens i know its game over for me.

Really just trying to accept what will be - yeah right who am i kidding. Maybe if i say it enough times will begin to believe it. he he

baby dust to all

thank you, and i totally 100% agree with you on the DH front, in our last thread i had a huge rant about my dh being dismissive and not seeming to care, he had the 'it'll happen when it happens' attitude and i had the 'i want it to happen now and why won't it'!

We then had a BIG talk about it and i realised that he did actually build his hopes up each month and then was upset when i had the bfn. He told me that he was upset too about the failures but was trying to make 'light' of it in a way to try and take away the pressure on me. so maybe your dh feels the same?

It's very difficult and i hate dealing with the ups and downs each month, but hey you have to try and be positive and i try to get excited about a new month, a new method of working out my ov!

Thanks Heeby, especially for hug. I sent dh message to tell him and got the usual 'ah well there is always next month' reply, I know he doesn't mean to be dismissive but I think unless your going through it like us it is hard to understand how hard it is each month. so thanks for all the support.

Will check out the link now.

Fingers crossed for Monday for you and sending loads of lucky vibes.

elliegant i'm so sorry honey, that's such a shame. (((hugs)))

The Deana plan makes total sense, i'm not sure who mentioned it now (sorry hun) but i read up on it and they give you an idea of when to bd and straight facts of what happens when - in fact after i read it and realised that i had been bd-ing the wrong time (as in every other day not on the actual day) so we'll see if it helped on monday!

If not i'll be on it next month so will be on it with you, here's the link www.pregnancyloss.info/sperm_meets_egg_plan.htm

Hi all,

AF started again today so thats it for this month , feeling pretty low as I had sort of convinced myself that this was the month.

You will probably all think i'm a bit dumb but can someone explain the Deanna Plan that has been mentioned on this thread.

Hi ladies,

thanks for the support guys ...

smiley i think i'm with you this month too, i had what i thought were ov pains this month on the Monday but then on the thursday i had lots of EWCM and pains again - but didn't BD that night (and in fact haven't since then so over a week now!) as DH too tired and worn out (poor thing - not) so i think we might have missed it this month. In fact i might wait until friday to test too, just to be safe.

but ... as for symptoms, i will hold my hand up and say i have been symptom spotting this month as i really feel this is my month (ignore this comment when i'm in tears on monday with af ok ladies) so today i have :

-sore (.)(.) slightly (this went away and has now come back)
-crampy tightenings
-a kind of 'i'm gonna pass out if i dont eat anything right now' feeling even tho i have eaten well during the day - this has happened for 2 days running now
-off my food a little

so nothing major (and have had all this before without a bfp so ...) but hey you never know!

wanabe am going to invest in CB sticks next month and really train up of FF so that i can chart properly and do temps too.

Oooh yes good luck Heeby - I hope you don't have to wait too long for your results.

Hi everyone and welcome to all the newbies! Been lurking for a few days as been mega busy at work and home (and in the bedroom so not had time to catch up properly.

It's really great to see everyone is in a positive frame of mind. I am too although I seem to be running late with oving this month but then I did appear to have a 10 day AF so that isn't entirely surprising. However EWCM and usual zit outbreak would indicate that the time is nigh

I had a dream last night (yes again) that I got pregnant this month, and have a girl delivered by c section(not so great that bit hey ho). I dreamed in really vivid detail that I try for a VBAC then have a failed induction! This is actually what happenned last time so perhaps think I am starting to try to deal with unresolved issues that might be lurking somewhere.

JClaire and Cindy - good luck as you seem to be first up on the test front!

I have a feeling it will be a good month. Love the new thread name btw!

Thanks Wanabe, I may just invest in one...
Hope your peak waits till Saturday and that you can still fit in some timely BDing! If not, I'll still be on here next cycle (I'm about to ov too but we're holding off as I've just had a mc) so come back and join me, seems like we're more or less in sync...

Hey everyone,

villagemum yes the clearblue one asks you to wee on the stick every morning from CD6 in your first month and it learns from your cycles so this time it asked me to wee on them from CD9 and that way you use less sticks.
I'm CD15 today and still "high", also having some EWCM so im very annoyed that DH is in bloody Amsterdam. Bet we'll miss out this month now. Just hoping that i may not actually reach "peak" until Saturday (when DH is home) although that wouldn't be great as I expect his swimmers to be pickled. Feel like im out this month already and haven't even OV'd yet

Cindy, we plan to use the sperm meets egg plan next month when we start ttc... seems like a good one!

Ellie, well, I am 39, so don't you worry...

Boosie, good luck when you test again! - and smiley too...

Morning everyone,
Very cross with myself - after being very good I went and did a test and of course BFN. I was doing so well not going near the tests, but then convinced myself I had lots of symptoms. Very thirsty, had to get up in the night to eat something as was starving, nausea for the last two mornings and on and off sore boobs. This could of course be AF coming, but the thirst is unusual. Also it's our wedding anniversary and thought it would be lovely to tell DH when he woke up. Right, NO MORE TESTS TILL NEXT WEEK!

Have added myself back onto the list

JClaire AF due 1st November
Cindy AF due 3rd November
Heebychick AF due 3rd Nov
BoosieBoo AF due 3rd-8th Nov
Smileycat AF due 5th-11th Nov
Pinkie08 AF due 7th Nov
Wasabi AF 12th Nov
Wanabemum AF due 14th - 18th Nov
Becky AF due 11th November
Mylittlebubble AF due 10th - 15th Nov
VillageMum AF due 17th Nov
Yellowflowers AF due 23rd Nov
Pezzina AF due 24th Nov

Going away tonight for long weekend to see my brother and leaving tests behind. He lives in rural lincolnshire, so no danger of nipping into boots! Have a good weekend all x