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EWCM? BBT? OPK? WTF?! We’re just not using contraception!

954 replies

frakkinaround · 23/02/2010 12:29

So a slightly lighter and less scary thread for those who are chucking away the pills and the condoms and hoping for the best!

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vallinnapod · 11/06/2010 22:15

BF congrats to the BFP Brigade!

The rest of us will raise a glass or 4 on your behalf!

Off to a wedding this weekend. Will have to make sure i don't drink so much that it still registers on my blood test on Monday

Happy JS-ing w/es to you all (incl. you BFP-ers, make the most of your last 'quiet' 9 months if you are on #1!) x

almostknockedupgirl · 11/06/2010 21:53

Whoohoo Grannyapple!! Congrats! And that is soooo funny about your DH. Typical indeed!

And takethatlady, I'm PMSL at your onion.

takethatlady · 11/06/2010 21:22

Grannyapple that's amazing news! Congratulations (despite having a dunce DH )! I think I might cry too, if/when I get a BFP - it's a pretty big moment! Wow, two BFPs on test day! [sprinkles babydust everywhere]

Grannyapple · 11/06/2010 20:52

Bloomin iPhone stopped working this afternoon-been lost without it until now..

RIght did a cheapie sainsbury's test when I got home....2 lines, 1 fainter than the other but definitely 2...showed it to DH who automatically misread the instructions & announced it was negative!!!(bloody typical-skipped several lines of the instructions leaflet-makes me wonder how we got here in the 1st place!). Still a bit unsure whether to believe it so will use digital test tomorrow morning..

Started crying, almost sobbing...god knows why?! Hope that isn't a taste of things to come...I'll be a bloody nightmare to live with!

If he asks what '1-2' means tomorrow, def gonna tell him it's no. of babies!

takethatlady · 11/06/2010 20:02

Congrats canoe! What did your DP say? Glad one of us got a BFP on the testfest! (I got a BFN and am feeling suspiciously knackered and irritable tonight, so I guess I'm due for my period (notice the use of 'period' ladies!). Just had to try really hard not to have a tantrum because I couldn't find an onion ... I would feel bad about it, except I then found it on the bathroom floor. The kitchen is not very far from the bathroom so it's not as weird as it sounds, but still! DH has been home watching the world cup and professes ignorance. I suspect the onion substituted for a football at some stage in his preparations for the game )

Poor you brassica, let's down a bottle of wine and hope for next month, shall we?! Loving the crotchless shag pants! Where can I get me a pair?!!

Milanomum, congrats on the full naked swing! Good work!!!

NewMrsCharles · 11/06/2010 19:31

Congratulations!! This is a good thread x

Im off to keep my mate company at Aquanatal tonight so wonde how many times im going to be asked when im due and will be gutted it my already ample belly if bigger than the baby bumps!! Be good practice anyway... hopefuly... soon ...

milanomum · 11/06/2010 12:46

takes off super-shag cape for a bit

congrats to janedoe and Canoe that's great news!
I'm in full swing (if that's the right word). It's really hot over here so let's just say there aren't a lot of clothes being worn at night which is making things a lot ...erm ... easier ;)

I like the idea of just calling periods periods. Not calling them what they are reminds me of my mum asking me as a teenager in a shushed voice if I was 'on' and me thinking 'Does she mean have I got my period?'

Good luck to all the testers over the next couple of days and to the others, don those shag capes and get to it!

Grannyapple · 11/06/2010 11:33

Huge congrats canoe!!

Haven't tested yet-still no red witch, but I feel as if she is just round the corner..although swear I had a metal taste yesterday. Would do it in work, but work in hospital so don't want whole world to know!! Have cheapie ready & waiting at home-will pick up some more on way home, in case bfn. If red witch still not here come Monday, can test again then..don't want to tell DH in case he gets his hopes up...

Ah, roll on home time today....bit worried if it is a bfp -sister in law & family r down this w/e & she's a midwife-worried she would guess...prob worried over nothing tho!

Good luck to everyone else-any news??

almostknockedupgirl · 11/06/2010 11:11

Squeeeee!!!!!!!! Congrats canoe!!! Super excited for you!

canoe · 11/06/2010 11:07

Ok, so following all your advice i did a test this morning and... BFP!

I don't think i was really that surprised as i think i already knew, but was delaying actually finding out as i didnt want to know for sure - if that makes sense!

Now definitely having some "gulp - what have we done!!" moments today.

Hope everyone else who was testing this morning got the right result

almostknockedupgirl · 11/06/2010 09:47

Oh they don't necessarily NewMrsCharles. Mine have been reappearing over the last year or so, so I expect that it should just continue to come on cue now that the iud is out. But if yours hasn't been there for 8 years, it may take a bit longer!

I'm really not looking forward to cramps again, though. Really not... So here's hoping I've got one period to endure!

NewMrsCharles · 10/06/2010 21:39

Oh... almostknockedupgirl
I didnt realise periods started so soon!! I better get myself prepared as not had one in 8 years!! DH has not even put day for overtime (which is very unusual) so he can look after me as he put it he can remember the 'devestation' of the last one with the grumps and the tears.

Being thinking of you all for the testfest tomorrow x

BrassicaBabe · 10/06/2010 19:42

Too right vallinna I'd be driving myself mad. Can't talk to DH to this extent. I don't want to stress him out. And poor friends don't want to hear the ins and outs of each of my monthly cycles!

I'm still trying to convince myself I'm just "spotting". But that's BS. In fact you are welcome to kipper-slap me this time. This is AF, so it's not my month and I should be onwards looking to next month's shag-fest rather than looking backwards!!

almostknockedupgirl · 10/06/2010 19:42

I love this thread. You ladies are absolutely killing me with the shag-superhero-outfits, and erm, interesting sounding dreams!

Congrats janedoe! Fabulous news!

canoe I don't know how you manage such restraint!

Good luck with the test-fest tomorrow, and piddle & poo to the periods (I really cannot use the term AF instead. I tried it, and I'm sorry, but ohdearlord no.) that have arrived early. Out, damned spot! Out, I say!

I had my mirena out today (Bwahaha! at the jaunty nautical references frakkit & NewMrsCharles), and I'm expecting my period next Mon/Tues, so I CANNOT WAIT to get on board the just-shagging train!

Fingers crossed for everyone! (Early cheapie BFNs be damned!)

vallinnapod · 10/06/2010 19:19

Awh ladies thanks for the reassurance.

What did people do before the internet? It's almost impossible to find friends in real life (sorry, hate that term but you know what I mean) who are going through exactly the same thing as you with a similar attitude.

(((((Group hug!)))))) and uber loads of luck to tomorrow's testers - how you are all going to sleep is beyond me!

BrassicaBabe · 10/06/2010 17:35

Ah yes, loving the idea of matching shag-pants to co-ordinate with my shag-cape! Crotchless?!

takethatlady · 10/06/2010 17:18

Hey brassica, no worries. Maybe you should don your shag-pants outside your tights to match your shag-cape. That should get him going ...

Don't want to think about that dream anymore

BrassicaBabe · 10/06/2010 17:12

'Blime. I don't know what happens on my PC sometimes. I'm sure when I posted at 12:18 the message from takethat 12:10 wasn't there! Sorry, wasn't ignoring you. But on the dream front. Fingers crossed for you tomorrow.

Sorry for AF lulu, but yeah for the shag-cape!

Granny I reckon you drink as normal until you get a BFP. Being away this week I've had more than a few.

My shag-cape is going to need special powers this month. Summer is a v busy time for DH and shagging a couple of days on the trot during the week after a 16 hour day is a big ask. I'm going to have to be a sex god! Either that or "do you want a sprog or what?!"

Double "feck and arse" to AF!

Grannyapple · 10/06/2010 15:56

Crikey, would love 2, but being a school
night & all, not sure i could handle a 3rd one !Will stick to 2... Well that's the plan at least..!

takethatlady · 10/06/2010 15:44

Yes, grannyapple, one, or two, or maybe three?

Grannyapple · 10/06/2010 14:56

Hi folks-now got a dilemma! Out for dinner tonight at fav Mayfair restaurant-cheeky wee mid week treat after horrid 2 weeks back at work after hold! Will want a drink of the alcoholic variety, but want to wait til test tomoz -maybe I could just have one...?

Lovemylulu · 10/06/2010 13:58

Congratulations janedoe, great news!

AF has arrived for me too so the shag cape will be out again I wasn't actually as disappointed as I thought I would be... so maybe the 'not getting stressed about it thing' is working... a bit

I did however POAS 2 days before I was due... WHY??!!!

BrassicaBabe · 10/06/2010 13:34

Now I think about it, I'm more pissed of that there will be no shag-fest when I get home from a week away due to AF! Boo!

BrassicaBabe · 10/06/2010 13:31

Congrats janedoe Canoe you def need to test!

I'm with you gromers. I think AF is upon me. Which means last cycle was bang on 28 days. Bit peed off. Not massively though.

Fingers crossed for the others

frakkit · 10/06/2010 12:18

Takethat What the.....? No, actually I don't want to know!

Huuuuuge congrats, janedoe. canoe you should definitely test, and for all you other test-fest ladies out there don't be disheartened by negatives on a cheapie. There is still hope

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