The continuing adventures of The First Time Frolickers!!!!

You can tell i'm new - having got to grips with the smiley faces yet!

Morning all

Hope you don't mind another joining you - i've been lurking for far too long as thought if I join in it may drive me mental.

Having realised I am clearly obsesssed with this TTC malarkey thought I may as well say hi! Also seeing those of you who've been here for a little while get your BFP's is lovely and really encouraging.

Well my stats are

TTC 1 Cycle 7 UCL 27-32 CD 17

Think that's right. Just entering the 2WW with period expected NYE - oh joy! Really thought when we started this in May that i'd be starting 2010 pregnant, may still be (just!) but i'm not too hopeful.

Anyway enough about me me me - promise won't be like that all the time (fwink) (fgrin)

Ozzie, I was just looking at another thread in the pregnancy section and saw your question. I am so pleased for you, congratulations!!!!!!! What a lovely Christmas pressie, I have a big smile on my face.

Hope all the rest of you (that can remember me from a good while back ) are very well. All good here - have my 18 week scan next week, sickness has now just about disappeared and I have a little tiny bump... looking forward to it getting a bit bigger so I don't just look tubby!! Big relief to have the morning sickness go away.

Ozzie - you were asking about symptoms in the other thread, so I just wanted to say that I didn't really feel much different until 6 weeks, when I started to get quite constipated (sorry TMI!!), then by 8 weeks the morning sickness had started. Boobs started hurting around 6 weeks I think.

Oooh, so exciting! Congrats again!

What a lot to catch up on!

OZZY Congratulations! what amazing news and I would have taken the test again too LOL!

Turkey Merry Christmas, enjoy your holiday

Hello to anyone new, I've just popped in while I'm having a cuppa and I'll be back soon to catch up properly

Merry Christmas Turkey! Have a good one. I'm working right up to and including Christmas Eve, but then have the whole of actual Christmas and New Year off for the first time in years . I return on the 4th (if that's the Monday...)

sevans sorry you are still having to deal with it all. I hope you feel better by Christmas.

Hope you are all ok. I'm on my final day of quarantine at home after having the norovirus. Back to work tomorrow

Ooh and I forgot to say - I am off work after today until Boxing Day - hooray, hooray - so wont have any internet access. If anything wildly exciting happens I will go to the internet cafe and update you guys [mumsnet saddo emoticon] but if not, then

MERRY CHRISTMAS

and I will speak to you all on Boxing Day xxxx

Sevans - I can't believe that your bleeding is still ongoing. I don't know very much about MC but I stupidly thought that these things took about a week to pass. That is so horrible for you.

WhiteRoses - what a lovely idea about the memory stick!

Yorks - This is probably not the PC thing to say but I am going to keep on the booze over Christmas. I have my parents staying and they are very big on the mulled wine! They would be very suspicious if I suddenly passed on it! I'm going to limit my intake as much as possible - no more than 3-4 units a day, over maybe two days, and according to the What to Expect book, this shouldnt do any harm if it does turn out that I'm pg (I'm not really very hopeful that I am though, in truth). DH and I are having a quiet, booze-free New Year so that won't be a problem.

Aly - I was on the pill for 10 years, and my cycles seem to have come back to normal beautifully - apart from the complete lack of a BFP obviously!! Between 27-30 days every month, and I am ovulating according to my CBM. Now I just need that elusive BFP!!

Ozzie monopolise away! It's such exciting news and we're really thrilled for you. Hopefully there will be other Christmas BFPs to follow.

Morning all! I've been a bit slack about posting lately, sorry. Things are busy at work and I'm still spending my evenings crashed on the sofa at the moment. Looking forward to (hopefully?) getting some energy back at some point.

I was on the pill for about ten years, but I came off it around this time last year, 6 months or so before I planned to properly start TTC, in order to make sure everything was out of my body ok. I remember my cycles being erratic as a teen, but they were pretty regular after so long on the pill. Not sure whether that's because of the pill though, or because I just got older!

Congratulations, Ozziegirly! I'm so happy for you!! Another BFP is fantastic news. I'm sure there'll be lots more coming soon... Christmas magic in the air and all that.

I hope everyone else is doing ok. Anyone else testing this weekend? Keeping my fingers crossed!

aly I just can't think that it's great for our bodies to be on these hormones for so long, but I went on the pill at 16 when you are told, basically, that everything is a risk for getting pregnant, at any time of the cycle.

And then you just fall into staying on the pill as it seems easy and no hassle and then suddenly you are 15 years older and you're still on it!

I did another test today just to convince myself that it is all real. Dark pink line straight away, within probably 30 seconds. Thrilling!

I'm seeing the Dr on Monday, which is probably too early but much as I have done lots of reading, I don't actually know what I do now in terms of finding an obstratitcian (I will need to learn to spell that) and telling my healthcare policy etc. All exciting stuff.

I'll stop monopolising the thread now. I'm just over excited and am not even telling my best friend until I have seen the Dr (she has been through every BFN with me!), so I don't have anyone else to go on about it with.

Fingers crossed for lots more BFPs over the Christmas time.

Ozzie, glad to hear you're feeling well- hopefully it'll stay that way! I can only imagine how I'll be when I'm finally where you are. I bet your mind is going a mile a minute!

Funny that you were on the pill for so long. I don't know if it was just a feeling I had, or if I read it sometime. I was on the pill for 12 years and a Norplant implant for 5 before that- no time off for 17 years. I really think it changes things. My cycles are actually regular unless I have some sort of insane stress (which unfortunately happened too often the past few months). I even had my first af 30 days after my last pill. However, because of the years on the pill, my estrogen is low, I o late, etc. I could feel definite hormonal changes this last cycle (number 4). Maybe that's the feel of my body starting to get back to normal. The acupuncturist says that the pill really threw me out of whack. This is funny since I, too, did really well on the pill. It seemed like such a great idea at the time. Now, I probably just need to give my body a chance to do its thing.

I think it's officially Thur. for most of you, so I figured I would try my hand at updating...

Sky27 TTC#1 cycle 3 UCL 24? CD112
chico193 TTC#1 cycle 4 UCL36 CD90
Homebound TTC#1 cycle 3 UCL 30-32 CD78
Stellybelly TTC#1 cycle 1 UCL? CD74
MadameG TTC#1 Cycle 1 UCL 28 CD45
addie81 TTC#1 Cycle 2 UCL 27 CD37
Hamsterlover TTC#1 cycle 2 UCL34 CD36
blueberry noo TTC#1 cycle 2 UCL 31-32 CD29
pixiestix TTC#1 cycle 6 UCL28 CD27
CJ2007 TTC#1 cycle 6 UCL26/7 CD27
Kaloki TTC#1 cycle 2 UCL ? CD26
ceebs05 TTC 1, cycle 2, UCL 26?, CD26
Zippys TTC#1 cycle 7 UCL34 CD25
NovemberAli TTC#1 Cycle 2 UCL 30-34 CD23
kkas TTC#1 Cycle 5 UCL?? CD23
claireinthecommunity TTC#1 cycle 7 UCL29-31 CD20
Eleanora TTC #1 Cycle 1 UCL 33(?) CD20
YorkshireTeaDrinker TTC#1 Cycle 14 UCL 29 CD16
Calyx TTC#1 cycle 7 UCL 26-27 CD8
bunnygirl80 TTC#1 cycle 3 UCL 29 CD7
WhiteRoses TTC#1 Cycle 3 UCL23-40 CD7
chalky3 TTC#1 cycle 5 UCL26-40 CD7
honeymoo TTC#1 cycle 3 UCL? CD3
aly323 TTC#1 cycle 4 UCL 30-? CD3
Sevans TTC#1

Graduates:
Trying4Baby1 BFP 21Aug
Kaystar BFP 27Aug
Pepperonipizza BFP 12Sep
Fulhamgirl BFP 18Sep
Ladyemmalou83 BFP 13Oct
bluesnowfalcon BFP 14 Oct
Spirael BFP 7 Nov
Curlycasper BFP 11 Nov
TishTosh21 BFP ???
EmsieRo BFP 16 Nov
vix206 BFP 8 Dec
HypotheticalMummy BFP 9 Dec
Ozziegirly BFP 16 Dec grin grin

sevans firstly I am so sorry to hear the rollercoaster that you are going through. I know I will be so devestated if anything happens to this little bud, so my thoughts are with you.

aly you asked about the pill, yes I was on the pill for 15 years without a break! It suited me really well so I never had any reason to come off it.

My cycles went back to normal pretty much from month 1, but I don't know if I was actually ovulating straight away. I didn't start getting monthly spots (nice) until probably 4 months of being off the pill, which makes me think that was the hormones kicking in.

Feel fine again this morning! Will let you know when symptoms start. The only thing is that I am a bit tired, but I think that's because of being awake with excitement.

Thank you so much for all your kind messages, it really means a lot, and I am crossing my fingers for plenty more BFPs soon xx

Just pressed send on a message I wrote this morning - I see I am way behind the times. CONGRATULATIONS OZZIE !!

Sevans I'm so sorry that you are still having to deal with the physical side of things, I really hope too that you will get through this soon, with as little pain as possible

WhiteRoses, that is such a wonderful thing (the USB), you're giving me ideas... DH and I have recently had a sought through and clear out and came across CDs of our photo's together from year 1, we spent a couple of hours looking through them and reminiscing. I love the idea of adding photos of our child/ren to our CD collection but your Christmas tree decoration USB idea is fab! I had the idea that each Christmas our child/ren would choose one new bauble/decoration to buy (or make) and put on the tree, starting with the 'baby's first Christmas' one. I too love the idea of starting a family tradition off

Ozzie I get what you're saying. Good on yer for holding off testing. I am still optimistic as you don't have to have symptoms to be pregnant, but its probably best not to get too excited, particularly if there's a chance your cycle could be knocked out cos if the flying.

Claire Good plan to not have any tests in at all. Its probably the only sure fire way to hold off testing.

It did just strike me, when you mentioned being due Boxing Day, what those of us on the 2WW over Christmas are planning to do re booze? I have cut right back recently and now average about 4-6 units a week. If I was pregnant I wouldn't be drinking at all, but given that its unlikely (but possible) that I will be, I don't particularly want a totally dry Christmas (I don't especially want to bring our TTC status to the attention of our extended family) but neither do I want to put the bean at risk if we do get lucky this week. What are others planning to do?

Oh Sevans, what a rollercoaster. It seems like a good idea to just let your body do what it needs to do for now, but I'm sorry it is so painful and taking so long. Hopefully tomorrow will give you the results you want.

Ozzie, now I'm at work and can give you a real post. Generally, the news of BFP's give me a mixed reaction. True happiness for the person getting it, but a load of self pity for myself, along with a crazy sense of feeling desperate (i.e. what do I need to do different? what's wrong with me? what can I take? etc.). However, this time, I really just feel happy for you and have a nice general feeling of hope. It's so nice.

Just out of curiosity, I was wondering if you had been on the pill before ttc (if it's not too personal)? I was just reading some literature saying that despite the fact that the hormones from the pill leave your system immediately, the effects it has on your system usually take longer to wear off. Since the pill was providing hormones, your body needs to learn to make and regulate them again. The article I read said that women who took the pill usually take 1-3 cycles longer to get their BFP.

I get to see the acupuncturist again today. They are going to give me some herbs and I'll be asking about my soy. I'm looking forward to it. I really like going!

Hi ladies. I apologize for being so absent. I have been crazy busy at work! I don't even know where I left off. I am still bleeding. This Saturday will be three weeks of bleeding red (I spotted brown, old blood, for about a week before that). Last week when I did my blood work my hcg levels went up again and the doctor wanted me to come in last Friday for a second opinion from a different doctor. The other doctor gave me three options.

1. to continue to let it go naturally but he would give me pain meds and antibiotics
2. to give me a medicine that would speed up the process by causing my uterus to contract causing more pain but again he would give pain meds and antibiotics
3. do the surgery (a d&c)

I decided to go for option 1. If I can get the pain under control I am good. The pain was very bad last week! I have to go back tomorrow to see him again and do more blood work. I pray that my hcg levels start to go down instead of up! There is still the chance I will have to do the d&c but I hope not.

Sorry but I haven't read through all of the posts except for the ones on this last page. Congrats ozzie!!! That is wonderful, wonderful news!!!!!

I hate posting from my mobile, but I can't wait to get to work to say congratulations to ozzie!!!!!!! Happy holidays indeed.

This is such great news Ozzie, I keep re reading your posts!

Wow wow wow Ozzie

I'm also sat here with a huge smile on my face.

What a fantastic time to get your BFP

So pleased for you and your hubby, enjoy it