The Grapefruit drinking knicker checking ttc brigade

Mylittlebubble AF due 10th - 15th Nov
Whitebeaches AF due 17th - 21st
Sorry! Missed off BFP's

Yellowflowers AF due 27th Nov
JClaire AF due 28th Nov
Sans04 AF due 28th Nov
BoosieBoo AF due 30th Nov DP
Cindy AF due 1 December DP
spats due 7th-? nov
Smileycat AF due 1st Dec DP
Bigbaubleeyes AF due 2nd Dec
Queenie1 - AF due 2nd(ish) Dec
Pinkie08 due 5th dec
Deeja AF due 9th Dec DP
Wasabi AF 16th dec
Wanabemum AF due 18th/19th Dec DP
VillageMum AF due 23 December DP
Funtimewincies AF due 23rd December
Elliegant AF due 24th Dec DP
Pezzina AF due 25th December DP

Heebychick BFP
Becky McG BFP

Thanks queenie1 lets hope we get our Christmas wish

Had a big storm last night, lighting knocked out the electrics for the fresh water supply so on bottled water at the moment. Its better today but overcast & abit windy, but when its nice its still around 15-18

smileycat sorry to hijack but what's the temperature in gibraltar at the moment? I might be visiting next week

Hi to everyone, especially lovelymonster - hope you're all having a good day.

Elligant - really sorry to hear about AF. Maybe better news for you, yellowflowers and pezzina on Christmas day? My fingers are crossed for you.

Smiley - agree sounds a very promising set of signs and I have my fingers crossed for you too.

And then me: I'm not sure if I have any signs - welcome your thoughts...I had what felt like sharp twinges from around the time of OV to a couple of days ago but now all quiet down there (AF due Tuesday). This feels a little unusual as usually I have a lot of twinge / cramp activity in the two week wait. Can I take this as a sign? I also have a bit more CM than usual for this time in my cycle. The only other thing is that I dreamt last night that I got a BFP. It was a pink line which is strange as I normally use Clear Blue but had been thinking of using another brand as I find CB's quite ambigious and can often see the faintest of faint lines, get my hopes up and then along comes AF. So clutching at stupid straws or can I be an insy, wincy bit hopeful?

So sorry, usual ramblings of the 2ww!!!

Mylittlebubble AF due 10th - 15th Nov
Whitebeaches AF due 17th - 21st
Sorry! Missed off BFP's

Elligant AF due 27th Nov DP
Yellowflowers AF due 27th Nov
JClaire AF due 28th Nov
Sans04 AF due 28th Nov
BoosieBoo AF due 30th Nov DP
Cindy AF due 1 December DP
spats due 7th-? nov
Smileycat AF due 1st Dec DP
Bigbaubleeyes AF due 2nd Dec
Queenie1 - AF due 2nd(ish) Dec
Pinkie08 due 5th dec
Deeja AF due 9th Dec DP
Wasabi AF 16th dec
Wanabemum AF due 18th/19th Dec DP
VillageMum AF due 23 December DP
Funtimewincies AF due 23rd December
Pezzina AF due 25th December DP

Heebychick BFP
Becky McG BFP

Hey,

I think we may need to update the old list...I don't think I have seen it recently:

Mylittlebubble AF due 10th - 15th Nov
Whitebeaches AF due 17th - 21st
Elligant AF due 27th Nov DP
Yellowflowers AF due 27th Nov
JClaire AF due 28th Nov
Sans04 AF due 28th Nov
BoosieBoo AF due 30th Nov DP
Cindy AF due 1 December DP
spats due 7th-? nov
Smileycat AF due 1st Dec DP
Bigbaubleeyes AF due 2nd Dec
Queenie1 - AF due 2nd(ish) Dec
Pinkie08 due 5th dec
Deeja AF due 9th Dec DP
Wasabi AF 16th dec
Wanabemum AF due 18th/19th Dec DP
VillageMum AF due 23 December DP
Funtimewincies AF due 23rd December
Pezzina AF due 25th December DP

Hi all,

What a lot to catch up on. Sorry AF got you Ellie ? come and join me and Yellow at the bottom ? our AF will be due Christmas day ? I can?t think of a better Christmas present than a BFP can you?

Bigbaubleeyes ? Smiley is right ? step away from the tests ? it really does you no good testing early. Patience my dear ? I know it?s a nightmare!

Smiley ? your cramping and headache do sound promising ? too early for AF so I have got my fingers crossed for you sweetie!

Hello to LovelyMonster. Sorry to hear about your MC but glad you?re back ? good luck to you and your DH and his lovely bottom

Hello to everyone else [waves]

I had my second reflexology session last night. I?m really enjoying them. She picked up on a tooth ache I?ve had this session and the first session but I hadn?t mentioned anything about it to her. Was very impressed about that. Have got sessions booked next week and the week after ? leading up to my fertile time. She will be concentrating on my uterus ? making it bean friendly .

Just want AF to be over so that I can get on with DP again. Have been in quite a grump today and yesterday ? my poor DH is steering clear at the moment ? will have to make it up to him this weekend

Thanks heeby and yellow

Am feeling bit better today deeja thanks, its just so frustrating month after month. Will try best to get back into positive mood as soon as possible.

heeby hope your feeling better soon

ooooh sounds promising!

I'm getting quite a bit of pain in my hips today the sore you get when your having a really bad AF & it hurts all over that area & a wicked headache. I'm not symptom spotting this month so I'm NOT taking it as a sign but its bloodly horrible. If it is a sign I hope its not a taste of whats to come & it'll get worse before it gets better, but I'd gladly suffer it if it means I get a BFP out of it, don't men have it easy

Hi ladies,

Welcome back lovelymonster i remember your name because i thought it sounds like my DD most of the time! sorry to hear about your MC, i had a MC at the same stage in May and it really threw me for a few months.

Hi yellow i hope you can celebrate christmas day with no Af and a BFP, how wonderful would that be!
I feel ok but am still full up of cold and really off my food which makes the sickness feeling worse so am nibbling ginger bikkis now. I am 7+4 today and hoping to hear about my early scan soon.

Hi to everyone, sorry am at work so can't stay on long!! xx

Hope you feel better today Elliegant.

Of course I remember you LovelyMonster welcome back

I came back a couple of weeks ago after an MC at 11+4 - just waiting for things to fire up again so I can try again.

Nature is a bitch sometimes isn't she

eee yes I suppose I am smileycat - So there is still hope for me this month - you right if i have dates correct I am due 2nd.

bigbauble naughty you, its way to early for you to be testing, it only puts you on a downer, keep those legs crossed hunny & wait till at least Sunday/Monday to test again as you are not due till Tues?? I think
Lovelymoster I remember your name from reading back through the thread before I joined, Of course you can come back & join the lovely thread everyone is welcome, sorry to hear about you mc sending you a big hug
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My temp still up this morn I guess the wkend will bring the answer, the 2WW is nearly over yay

I went and did an early test this morning it was negative.

Girls this is the first month we really checked dates and stuff so I did have my hopes up a bit When we conceived DS we were very lucky - it was just one weekend that did it.

I tested because I have been sympton spotting had little twinges down below, seemed to be at loo a bit yesterday (even though its too early for that I think) and have felt nauscious (sp?) a few time when food was cooking.

It is still possible to test again and get a positive though isnt it.

Anyway I have the power of Heebychicks list and all the other great avice on here next month.

Oh I feel all forlorn but Good Morning everyone too.

Hello ladies, I am back!!!

Recognise most names, not sure if you remember me (????). Been ttc #1 for about 18months. Had mc at 5 weeks in october. We both feel obviously devestated but very positive about the whole experience as happy things evidently can 'get up there'.

Have been in limbo ever since thou as have have constant spotting (six weeks). Seen in epu last week as was right fed up. They rescanned and nothing there but took bloods to check hcg levels. Turned out still have hcg levels (god knows what the hell is happening) and advised me to come back again this week to recheck.

Am now very pleased to report (probably the one and only time!) that normal af has arrived! And with a bang! Has never been so painful. Took all painkillers (legally)known to man but had to wait until dh got home from work at 11.30pm as the only thing that ever works is dh's bottom (which exudes heat) pressed up against my tummy. oh la la - heaven (its a lovely bottom).

So now ladies.... I am back in the ttc game (the joy it is in all). So if you are prepared to put up with all my moaning I would love to put up with yours!!!!

So will you have me back..............(cheeky smile)........?

I guess my main reason for giving up the alcohol and caffiene was the noticable difference it made with CM, i thought it was probably making me dehydrated. I work in the wine industry so is quite hard to quit!!

elligant poor you honey, the first day is always the worse and like you say with all that effort how can it not happen, very unfair, but don't lose heart, have a big bad glass of wine and try to be positive xx

Well... thats it Af had arrived and I am truly gutted, how can I not be pregnant be after all that BDing

Am sitting here trying not to burst into tears. As others have said I am worried that my age is against me, I am 38. It took nearly 2 years ttc ds1 when I was 34, not sure how I will cope if it takes that long again.

Probably wont seem so bad tomorrow (I hope) so going to have an early night.

Hi all,

Just trying to catch up with all the posts, not been able to drop in for a couple of days .

Pezzina and Yellowflowers sorry AF got you, I am still holding out but pretty sure it will come tonight as I have cramps and feel really bloated but still silently praying it wont.. Very proud of myself for resisting testing.

Oh yes BFP very nice Christmas present....but I'm not too hopeful for me - but I would be happy conceiving over Christmas too. That would be nice. The new year would be a happy one to say the least.

Well thank you to everybody for feedback on the ovulation sticks. I think perhaps I wasn't very good at holding out for 4 hours before using them....but I have to say if you are trying to keep liquid intake up so you have good EWCM then it's a bit hard. Then again I didn't get the other signs of ovulation so I'm not sure what was going on.

I may get some of the cheaper sort from e-bay.

Queenie it is hard to know whether to book holidays when you don't know how you are going to feel at that point. Yes Thailand still ace...would definately go back - when we can afford it.

Heeby really great list - I think that I may be refering to it quite a lot.

I also like wine and have not been totally cutting it out...and have had 1 coffee a day. I thought latest government information was there was no evidence for a link between a small intake of alcahol and problems in pregnancy. Jools I totally agree with Queenie that you didn't do anything that would have changed the outcome that you had.

On a totally different note I read with interest that if men sit in a cold bath 30 minutes before sex it will make their sperm very active (or at least there is a small amount of evidence for this). I really doubt that DH would do this for me....but he is training for a marathon and sitting in cold bath is good for reducing swelling in his legs - so if I can only tempt him into the bedroom after training then I might be onto a winner.

Do you think you fellas would sit in a cold bath to increase your chances?