TTC any which way DP CM BT OPK Grapefruit drinking ....

And of course wasabi's news means a new bfp for the list which is ever growing - so exciting!

Mylittlebubble AF due 10th - 15th Nov
Bubblebell AF due 25th November ttc#3 on cycle 1
Whitebeaches AF due 17th - 21st
JClaire AF due 28th Nov
spats due 7th-9th Dec
Bigbaubleeyes AF due 2nd Dec

Mummy2olivia AF due December 23rd DP
Funtimewincies AF due 23rd December
Lovelymonster Af due 23rd December
Elliegant AF due 24th Dec DP
Pezzina AF due 25th December DP
Smileycat AF due 25th December DP
Sans04 AF due 26th December DP
Queenie - AF due 28th / 29th Dec
C1ndy AF due 1 Jan
Suigeneris AF due 1 Jan DP (intention to)
Pinkie08 due 1st Jan clomid and DP
Ilovebeingamummy AF due 1st Jan
Yellowflowers AF due 1st Jan DP
iggypiggy - AF due 2nd Jan
Wanabemum AF due 9th-14th Jan DP

Heebychick BFP
BeckyMcG BFP
BoosieBoo BFP
Sn0wflake BFP
Villagemum BFP
Wasabipeanut BFP

oh wow wasabi, that is just brilliant!!!!! So how many dpo are you now? wooohooooo. Please stick around on this thread and tell us how it's going.
xx

HOOOOOORAAAYYYYY

That is just the BEST news Wasabi I am over the moon for you

Grapefruit Juice ROCKS

Thank you Iggy

There is always hope. I'm now just hoping and praying that it sticks.

Wow - fab news wasabi another BFP!!!!

That makes me feel better re: shagging - cos we didn't manage enough this month am sure of it - but now have small amount of hope!

Also great news re: work

Hi everyone,

Sorry I've not posted for a while - been a manic weekend. First up CONGRATULATIONS!! Villagemum - fandabeedozee

Thank you for all your encouraging words about handing in my notice. It actually went really well - they have already said they want to use me as a freelance and will work out an arrangement in January whhich will be brilliant. So, I finished work on Thursday feeling high as a kite and just sooo relieved.

Spent Friday Christmas shopping but had little prickles of nausea from time to time which I dismissed because I was convinced I was kidding myself again. I still hadn't got AF though and finally plucked up the courage to test on Saturday morning..........................................................and it was a BFP!!

And so was the one I did a couple of hours later and the fancy pants digital one that dh bought in town on Saturday afternoon just to be on the safe side.

Yes, despite hardly shagging at all (CD12, 15 and 20) and me being ill we have somehow managed to concieve a mini wasabipeanut.

Sorry to here that wincies

But at least you can drink over Christmas

am giggling at the commandment

Gateau - I should think pink would work fine too - gfj is gfj - so long as it is fresh and not from concentrate apparently

I'm out of the Christmas test, AF arrived this morning . Arse and cheers (pours v. large G&T) !

Gateau - our top commmandment is 'thou shalt quaff grapefruit juice'. Our faith hinges on the quasi-religious tennet that grapefruit juice = plentiful ewcm and "lo, the BFPs came forth from the winderness" (book of funtime rambling, chapter many, verse lots).

Pink grapefruit juice? Are you part of a breakaway sect? .

What is the deal with grapefruit juice? This has probably been asked before -sorry of it has. Secondly, does pink grapefruit juice work too?

Morning all Yellowflowers - good that you know what is going on now

No bleeding at all this morning !!

I was feeling quite nauseous first thing this morning - drove DP to work and thought at one point I might have to stop the car . Am trying to tell myself it is a bug, as I now have a sore throat and that sensation in my nose that means a streaming cold is going to come out in tne next couple of days ..

Having said that, I read yesterday on here about another lady who had spotting for 9 days - thought it was an AF that never quite got going, then tested to "rule out" being PG and got a BFP !!

I think I might just have to test Xmas Eve to stop my mind and body playing tricks on me - I CAN'T be PG as my boobs are not sore or swollen in the slightest.

Hi,

Am pretty sure ebing ill delayed ovulation as ewcm on fri night temp rise on sat. So dates now later than first thought so have updated list - guess it means I can't join in the xmas eve tempathon but can for nye if one is happening then. Oh wow - what an amazing start to the new year that would be!

Any news from people at the top of the list?

Mylittlebubble AF due 10th - 15th Nov
Bubblebell AF due 25th November ttc#3 on cycle 1
Whitebeaches AF due 17th - 21st
JClaire AF due 28th Nov
spats due 7th-9th Dec
Bigbaubleeyes AF due 2nd Dec

Wasabi AF 16th dec
Mummy2olivia AF due December 23rd DP
Funtimewincies AF due 23rd December
Lovelymonster Af due 23rd December
Elliegant AF due 24th Dec DP
Pezzina AF due 25th December DP
Smileycat AF due 25th December DP
Sans04 AF due 26th December DP
Queenie - AF due 28th / 29th Dec
C1ndy AF due 1 Jan
Suigeneris AF due 1 Jan DP (intention to)
Pinkie08 due 1st Jan clomid and DP
Ilovebeingamummy AF due 1st Jan
Yellowflowers AF due 1st Jan DP
iggypiggy - AF due 2nd Jan
Wanabemum AF due 9th-14th Jan DP

Heebychick BFP
BeckyMcG BFP
BoosieBoo BFP
Sn0wflake BFP
Villagemum BFP

Morning everyone

Have messed up this month so v. unlikely to be PG... all to do with various paries conspiring against us!

So far we managed to BD on CD 10/11/15(x2)/16

today is CD 17...

not hopeful as think we missed the key times in the middle

Jools - hope this is AF for you now and that this sorts out your cycle

Thanks for the suggestions Wincies I agree with you - have found some sites that describe the withdrawal bleed that is caused not by the corpus luteum dying and therefore ceasing production of progesterone, but by the oestrogen being unable to support womb lining and this sounds like what is happening.

I can only hope that my cycle sorts itself out soon I've read about women of my age who end up going into peri menopause after a miscarriage - my mum went through the menopause at only 2.5 years older than I am now. Can't do a lot other than wait and hope I suppose

Keep the faith - you could still be PG the excessive weeing imho can't be a symptom unless you are testing at 6 weeks or more, as the uterus simply isn't big enough surely to cause any pressure on the bladder. As for other symptoms - All I got was the odd wierd tingling sensation in my boobs at 7DPO and 11DPO - nothing in between

Quite possible that it was an annovulatory cycle Jules. Sometimes the imbalance of progesterone to oestrogen can cause bleeding from around day 21. I've only just thought of this as a friend and I were talking about a similar thing happening to her lately.

The googling I did flagged up higher than usual stress levels as a possible cause for the imbalance, this would certainly be the case after what you've been through lately . The advice on charting is to take CD1 as the day you start 'proper' bleeding (i.e. not spotting).

Well, no AF here today, so not a 28 day cycle (convinced that I'm not up the duff) but I'll still be up for testing if the hag hasn't arrived by Xmas Eve .

Afternoon everyone

VM - does it feel real yet

I'm confused again today - thought this wierd light bleeding was finally tailing off after 8 days, but just had a flood - judging by my irritability, hormonal tears, cramps and the volume and colour of the bleeding, THIS is now the AF I am used to

So, anyone got any ideas as to what the last week has been ? My best guess is I didn't ovulate, so had breakthrough bleeding and now my hormones have kicked in, so this is AF proper starting today and (hopefully) the start of a "normal" cycle.

What do I consider CD1 though ?? Today or sometime last week. Answers on a postcard please ! (wanders off to hunt for Nurofen and hot water bottles ....)

becky, I totally understand your need for another scan... 11 weeks will be a safe time to share your news and you'll have the further reassurance of the NHS scan soon after, too...

pezzina, fingers crossed it's an implantation dip!!

jools, I'm really sorry to hear this may be AF, but then you'll know for sure when your next fertile window is and can really go for it...

Thanks for all the sticky thoughts, ladies. I've booked an early scan for 7 weeks - it would be so good to see a heartbeat this time! Other than that I'm just going to take it day by day...

I'm off to the ski slopes today so wont be able to check in till boxing day evening to see if there are any more bfp's & let you know how I got on this month, was hoping to test on Xmas day although FF says 26th but I had a temp tip this morning which def tells me I OV'd on the Sat as per my reconning rather than the Friday (FF) as it follows the same patern as the last two months, which means I shouldn't test till 27th, I'll see if I can wait it out, but I should know before that if my temp dips around AF time

Merry Christmas everyone I hope you get everything you have wished for

Thanks welsh and sorry to hear that things haven't settled down yet Jools . I think that you and I are both well-overdue some good BFP news and sticky beans soon.

However, I reckon that I'm out this month, all symptoms have stopped and I don't feel preggers at all (been here enough times now to know what it feels like). Probably just fighting something off which was making me feel odd .

On the plus side, here's to a boozy Xmas !

Thanks Welsh I too have been OVing the last couple of months around CD12/13, but this month got caught out & OV'd on CD9 according to FF, hopfully yours is a good omen we BD on CD6 & CD8, your story has given me fresh hope that I may have got lucky this month when I thought I'd completly missed it...I'll keep you posted

Thanks welsh.

Hi pezzina - our cycles no longer in sync- i think I ovulated yesterday but am waiting for a couple of days of temp rises to confirm.

I watched that War in the womb programme last night - actually not very good or that much info, just one depressing nugget which was that only 20 per cent of fertilised eggs manage to implant. I had thought it was 25 per cent so even less chance than I though. Bah humbug

hi girls, I've just dropped in on this thread as I was a regular on the ttc threads up until I got my BFP in Oct. Anyway, the reason I'm posting is due to what I discovered on my recent scan and thought it may help some of you ladies aswell.

I was following FF which estimated according to my cycle etc I was ovulating around the 14th day after AF which was what I considered the norm so was bd'ing from day 10 onwards each month with little success.

BUT...I noticed that after my AF ( around day 7 of new cycle ) I was getting EWCM so I decided to bed early, as soon as AF finished which was from around CD5 to CD9. I caught that month. Anyway, to cut a VERY long story short, I went for scan last week that revealed by their dates I must have OV'd approx CD8.

So, I know most of you are experts already in charting your CM etc.. but just look out for early ovulation as I was told by various sites it wasn't the norm to ovulate that early in your cycle which is rubbish !!

Sorry for the mega long post but if this can possibly help some of you ttc then thought it was worth mentioning it.

Good luck xxx