This is going to be our month:) Come join me in the quest for motherhood!

[alien06]

hey peeps :0)

I have been TTC for 3 months now to no avail, no idea why not, as am very healthy, fit and SWI at the 'right' times.
Getting slightly stressed as everyone around me is preggers or recently had a little one, which I am happy about but it seems to be happening to people that have/do all the things that everybody says to avoid having/doing!

I shall begin a list:)

Alien06 TTC #1 Cycle 3 UCL 32-33 CD 3

Hi, can I squeeze onto your bench.

Been TTC#2 for 18 months.

Last few cycles ranged from 70 - 168 days

AF started this evening :) so starting first round of Clomid on Thursday :)

Hi, I'm in!

TKPepperpot TTC #2 Cycle 8 UCL 27-28 CD 25

Good luck to us all!

Hey welcome to giraffe and tkpepperpot

Awww glad to see that you both have little ones already, I'm so desperate to have my first. Do wonder why I have been preventing it for a while to get married, decent career, job etc.

Xx

Hello ladies - room for another one? Been TTC for 9 months so if I'm right with the stats -

InTheSunshine TTC #1 cycle 9 UCL 23-27 CD5

am going on hols on Thurs so am really hoping that what 'they' say is true about TTC & holidays! Good luck everyone

hey InTheSunshine of course there is room for another!!
where are you off on holiday? hope u have a fab time

Wednesdays list- Giraffe I couldnt fill in some parts!

Alien06 TTC #1 Cycle 3 UCL 32-33 CD 4
TKPepperpot TTC #2 Cycle 8 UCL 27-28 CD 26
InTheSunshine TTC #1 cycle 9 UCL 23-27 CD5
GirrafeAHolic TTC#2 Cycle? UCL? CD?

How was everyones day today?
I am a teacher and had my first ever meet the teacher evening and god I hated it!

x

Hi Everyone! Can I join?

It feels like SWI is a long ways away. If this was our month that would be amazing. Could tell everyone at Christmas! :)

alien06 it does seem unfair that people who don't follow the rules seem to have no trouble conceivng... I see that a lot too

inthesunshine have a great holiday!!

Alien06 TTC #1 Cycle 3 UCL 32-33 CD 5
TKPepperpot TTC #2 Cycle 8 UCL 27-28 CD 27
InTheSunshine TTC #1 cycle 9 UCL 23-27 CD6
Goldmaple TTC#1 Cycle 2 UCL 30 CD 3
GirrafeAHolic TTC#2 Cycle? UCL? CD?

Alien06 TTC #1 Cycle 3 UCL 32-33 CD 7
TKPepperpot TTC #2 Cycle 8 UCL 27-28 CD 29
InTheSunshine TTC #1 cycle 9 UCL 23-27 CD8
Goldmaple TTC#1 Cycle 2 UCL 30 CD5
GirrafeAHolic TTC#2 Cycle? UCL? CD?

hey everyone!!

how are you all? I spent the day with the MIL, not bad as went for a nice pub lunch in an old jail! very surreal!

now finishing off my work ( school teacher!) then chillaxing with the vino for x factor whooopeee!

goldmaple welcome :0) Of course you can join :) it looks like we are all in the earlish stages of TTC which is cool,

how are you all feeling about the whole
TTC thing?

xx

Ok so af arriving was a false alarm (god knows how after a week of Norethisterone ) so can't start the Clomid.

This is going to be one long month :)

TTC#2 Cycle 19 UCL 60-170 CD 32

giraffe I'm sorry to hear about u not being able to start Clomid :( fingers crossed u can soon. No chance u could be heading for a BFP ??x

Thanks alien. I doubt it, fairly sure I haven't ovulated in about a year. I did a HPT on Friday but BFN, thought I may have had an implantation bleed on Wednesday but I don't think it's likely.

The wait continues.

giraffeAHolic fingers crossed that it was an implantation bleed! Hopefully if it wasn't you get on clomid soon!

alien06 I'm very excited about TTC and going to try not to obsess ... but the 2WW is really long and boring and of course I symptom spot like crazy. I'm also a little worried that I won't be able to have a baby etc... but not founded on anything other than a few fertility problems in my family (grandparents on both sides, but parents were fine). Would love to tell everyone at Christmas but just trying not to get hopes up too much because it probably will take longer...
How are you feeling about TTC? Its good to have a fellow newbie to talk to:)

Hi goldmaple, it wasn't an implantation bleed as AF finally turned up today.

So counting today as day 1, the Clomid will begin tomorrow :) very excited and very nervous :)

I'd also like to be able to announce at Christmas!

Hiya girlies! Room for another one? Ttc 1st for 2 years now. Newcomer to mumsnet. Any/ all tips welcome. Drs can't find anything wrong, therefore no solution at the mo. May go onto ivf privately next year if situation doesn't improve. I'm 40, dh is 43. Cycle regular as clockwork, ovulate on the nose day 14, BMI 23, his is 22: bloods are good. Someone somewhere has decided that it isn't to be .... Just yet!

Where is everybody?

fedup have no advice/tips, but welcome:)!! Hopefully this will be a lucky thread for everyone!

Updated stats:
Alien06 TTC #1 Cycle 3 UCL 32-33 CD 9
TKPepperpot TTC #2 Cycle 8 UCL 27-28 CD 31
InTheSunshine TTC #1 cycle 9 UCL 23-27 CD10
Goldmaple TTC#1 Cycle 2 UCL 30 CD7
GiraffeAHolic TTC#2 Cycle 19 UCL 60-170 CD1

Any news TKpepperpot

sorry to hear about AF giraffe but yay that you can start clomid!

hi fedup. I think everyone got cold on the bench :)

That sounds very mysterious. It's bad enough when you know there's a problem and can look into medication etc, but it must be very difficult when there is no explainable problem to work with :(

Has dh been tested for any issues?

Thanks for the warm welcome guys. Won't post cycle details just yet, as am a bit superstitious of such things- don't ask!
Giraffe: we've both been tested twice yearly, bloods, scans, his sperm count: the whole shebang, everything text book stylee! Which is why we're under the " unexplained infertility" umbrella: highly demotivating. Push comes to shove may have to go ivf privately next year. At least we'll have given it our best shot the au naturel route ! It's so frustrating when it's not happening.
Hope this thread brings us all luck xxx

hey everyone :0) Sorry for the delay in getting back on but my job takes over my life! ( teacher!) and last night I had the first night out to cinema and dinner with DH for months :0)

I did write a reply when I got home but then DH turned the internet off just as I was posting it !

goldmaple I feel ok ish about TTC except everyone around us is having a baby and with hardly any months of trying and they smoke, are unfit, huge etc . I am a non smoker , drink only a little and exercise nearly everyday, and I cant seem to conceive as quick as others ! Oh I am 28 but I didnt think that was too old ........
I had the mirena coil removed in June so it is not like I have the excuse of the hormones are in my body :( I am going to go to the docs re something else and will slip in a mention of the TTC part and see if he has any extra recommendations!

I am glad in a way that I have such a busy job as I have not got a lot of time to ponder on the whole TTC thing, during the Summer holidays I was becoming obsessive with it all. I have bought all the recommended books but cant really redically change my diet as 1) I eat healthily anyway, 2) DH is not up for all the funky food and 3) I cant cook that well lol.

Sorry to be me me me but this is the only place where I can release all the stresses of TTC

fedupttcnosuccess my best mate had the same thing - unexplained, but she became preggers after 3 years of trying :) sadly she mc but it shows that there is hope out there so try to keep your chin up :0)

right just noticed the time and I best get to school as the little six year olds will be in soon!!

have a nice Tuesday everyone

xx

alien 06, is this your first year teaching? It's my third proper year, and it's much more settled that the first two. I hate parent teacher evenings too. And we have so many of them (one tomorrow evening to set targets for GCSE students). If you need to talk re stress and teachering and TTC, I'm here!

Hi green yes this is my first year. I qualified in July 09 this is my second term of my NQT. I teach Year 1. I think I'm doing ok but then I'm not 100% sure or everything which is scary as don't want to ask too many questions !

Roll on half term :-) what's your story re TTC?
I'm keeping my fingers crossed for some BFPs over the coming weeks !!

Hahah, the pressure of the workplace and its politics. And schools can be the worst, before I became a teacher heard about it all for years from my friends who were teachers.

(Better make this a new thread, teachers can just go on, and on, and on, and, well, let's just say our job sort of consumes us! :o!)

We just started TTC, first came off pill in late June, everything is looking regular from the outside but actual cycle dates haven't settled yet. Never looked before, didn't get pain so didn't care (sorry to all of you who do get massive period pain, I have friends with this so I do know some of what you go through. I get migranes instead). But as relationship is long distance at the moment we have to time things right, and we haven't so far . . .

alien06 I am not a teacher but I have just started a new job as well and when I have a bad or crazy day I wonder what I'm thinking TTC

Anyone close to testing yet?

I just got my fertile mucous and it's no-where near where DP can come and see me. :( . So it's going to be another month. Why can't fertile patches be on weekends?!!

awww Green that is a bugger!!!! I am coming up to my ovulation time according to the app on my iphone hahahahahahaha , not sure if this will be our month as we timed it well last month but still no BFP :(

Roll on half term!

x

alien, it's frustrating, isn't it? Much harder than I thought it would be! But I like a bit of a challenge!

Gold, hope your job isn't doing your head in too much! (Almost Friday) (Which doesn't help if you work on weekends!):o