Charter's Anonymous: Volume 3, here's to better luck this time for us all!

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A shiny new thread girls and hopefully we shall all get merrily up-duffed with sticky beans

Nope! He's just been on the phone asking if he should pick up a bottle of wine on his way home. It's fair to say he's confused at my 'no thanks' reply!

Might have to tell him tonight. Am gutted my digital result has disappeared! Could wait and wrap up my box of pee sticks for xmas. What would you do?

SFF??!! Is that all we've got to look forward to??!!

Tis indeed the thread and charting is the way to do it! ... with the occasional S as well I s'pose

Other people's BFPs make me feel pregnant I am about ready to combust with impatient excitement and have already worked out hypothetical due date for my little phantom baby. If a bit late it could arrive on my birthday!

I need a stern talking to and to Calm Down.

Hi nix, just to let you know, I also have pant gloop and achey pains. They're my only damn symptoms! Hope you're ok lovey xx

Well there's also the small matter of the baby to occupy you too! Go on, tell him, and take him with you to the scan. He'll be thrilled.

Oh Terrys wow! Couldn't see the pic but I'm so happy for you. Just hoping it'll be me next time. How long had you been TTC/charting?

When pg with DD, I threw away my pg test after 10mins only to see the faintest of lines :)

spilt I think I'll still be here long after the lights have all gone out, charting away to myself. I would so love a bfp this cycle - baby would be due around the time if DD's 3rd birthday!

DP back home now after getting about 50 miles from Glasgow and having to turn around cos the motorway was so bad it should have been closed. Poor man drove over 500 miles today. On the plus side, I may ov on Friday, so time to SWI tomorrow night

Am feeling down today as I'm a fatty bumbum and have terrible trouble losing weight and have no will power but perhaps I;d conceive if i lost some.
Sorry feeling a bit low.

I know how you feel MrsA all these BFPs are lovely, but I'm left feeling a bit left out I will probably be sat here in the dark when all the other charters are bouncing their babies on their knees! Ah well. Must try and keep positive.

How is the potty training going?

Thanks for lovely messages all!

MrsA and GetDown please don't feel left out, I am sure there is good news round the corner for you soon!!

MrsA we have been TTC for 3 months but this month was the first with real SWI effort (DH took a bit of time to get his head around being on demand!)

I don't know what to do with myself now!! POAS in the morning me thinks!!

Hope so Terrys! I am chuffed for you though And only 11DPO! Those lines are going to get darker and darker!

oh crap oh crap oh crap

Scared.

wee drying on stick as we speak...

IC so bound to be inconclusive. 11 dpo. Period officially will be Late if not here today.

morning

Just want to say a big yay for terrys :) good for you lovely!! am very pleasedxx

split calm thoughts love, will check back in a few mins to see if the wee has dried xx

I know I keeep dashing in and out but I am so busy :( DP is back tonight, I am praying for a smiley face tomorrow - I am having lots of EWCM so it is looking good.Am also glugging grapefruit juice by the gallon.

Have a nice day everyone xx

Agh I am doing a terrys. Faintest of faint squinters-am-I-imagining-it line (actually I did 2 just incase one was duff!).

Gah. I will have to try again tomorrow. I feel the same as last time though - tender and crampy of stomach. Clear CM. Tired.

spilt I don't know whether to be excited or nervous for you so i can't imagine how torn you must be feeling?!? What did you pee on? I used a First Response last night after holding pee/not drinking for 5 hours, in case you can't wait till tomorrow?

Just took a CB Digital and it said: Pregnant 1-2 weeks!!!

Oh spilt, calm thoughts love. If it is a positive then surely the docs will have something they can do?

Hope you're ok xxx

Terrys, have you POAS again this morning? X

Yay!!!!! Congrats terrys xxxx Woohoo!

Well, well, well. Congratulations Terrys. Big hugs. So exciting

And Spilt - don't panic. I think it should be ok. Are you going to gte a FR as well? Better to know sooner rather than later so they can start you on drugs if necessary. xxxx

terrys so pleased for you

Thanks girls, I'm terrified and excited too. Used an internet cheapie these.

I'm tempted by the FR terrys, just to get a better line. Now I can see with daylight I definitely have 2 positive tests . I am tempted to stick another in the wee pot just to check...

I guess I better find the consultant's phone number.

I feel so irresponsible, but that is also silly. We had ttc sex on Nov 23rd and Nov 24th. Saw consultant on the 25th and stopped immediately. I ovulated on the 28th so obviously the "damage" had already been done, as we had no sex since the 24th until 4dpo.

Denial is no use. I am up the duff.

I was doing some research yesterday and from what I have gleaned now:

-30% of the UK population are immune to toxo
-The risk to unborn babies depends on the stage of pregnancy. If you catch (note, actually catch it) toxo in the 1st trimester there is a 15% chance of transmitting it to the baby, 30% in the 2nd trimester and 60% in the 3rd.
-If you transmit it to the baby in the first trimester there is a high chance of MC
-If infected during the first or second trimester the baby may be born with hydrocephalus (water on the brain), brain damage, epilepsy, deafness, blindness or growth problems. The developmental problems may be so severe that the pregnancy ends in a stillbirth.
-If you transmit it to the baby in 3rd trimester there may not be such severe problems. But problems, particularly with vision, may become apparent later in life.

The general internet info is that some experts recommend waiting 6 months from an infection because there have been a few cases where women have had toxo around or shortly before conception and transmitted it to the baby.

Toxo has a 5-23 day incubation period. I am thinking back now: Bobbie's scan was 9 weeks ago today. She was about 15 weeks in size but 20 weeks in age, so it looks like things were going wrong from 14-15 weeks (perfect at 12) so presumably I caught toxo around 12-13 weeks and it finished incubating and started doing damage at about 14 weeks. So that is 15 weeks ago. But it was still strongly detected at the birth tests (20 weeks)

Current speck will only have implanted 2 days ago.

My concern is that the infection could still be active, but I suspect it must have been largely beaten down by now? I will act as if I am not immune until I know otherwise.

I'll see if the receptionist at the surgery is allowed to book me a self-requested blood test or if I have to see the GP first to "authorise" it.

The drugs they give are antibiotics called spiramycin, but I need to do some digging and see what they can do to a baby in the first trimester.

My hunch is that the risk is small. And if the baby does get it it's most likely to be a very early MC. And an early MC could be due to anything so nothing to beat myself up over, no?

Gollygosh as DS would say! this certainly is the lucky thread!

spilt dont torture yourself you couldnt have known at teh time. Law of sod huh! I want to WHOOP for you but i dont want to upset you!!! Jeez louise! sod it...WHOOP!

And terrys a whoop for you too!!

mouse whoop for the gloop. I was getting gloop, worryingly it stopped yest, and my cervix is very low. Thats why i am worrying. Will see, gonne see the gp in oooooooooooops 10 mins and still in jim jams! best get a wriggel on

catch up lter, on hols today so a lazy decorating day :)

Any more spotting, Nix? I wouldn't worry re: the presence/absence of gloop, hon.

Hope all goes well with Doctor, Spilt

Thanks Lady. I've got an appointment for 10.20 this morning now.

Nix I hope you're ok and that the GP visit goes well.

Take care all xx

spilt I am very very excited for you but cautiously so IYSWIM. It would be so exciting to have so many of us on the August bus!

Let us know what the doc says!!

Nix hope the GP goes well.

Terrys ah well done love, you must be chuffed to conceive the first proper cycle!
I keep telling myself that, although I've been charting since June, due to holidays and other timing issues, we have only SWI properly for 3 cycles so early days.
Got a small amount of EWCM this morning, mild ov pain and did an OPK last night - negative but there was a faint line, so am hoping for this weekend.
AF is due on Xmas Day - what a pain re drinking!

Spilt wowowowowowowowowow. Good luck at the doctors. Is it awful to say I am v envious at your super fertility - SWI 4or 5 days before ov and conceived??!!
Try not to worry (easy to say) but at least you have the knowledge now - as jeff Goldblum said in Jurasic Park: Life finds a way. :)

Oh and thanks for asking about potty training. DD is a jedi master as we started on Friday and she cracked it by Sunday - no accidents all week, including 2 mega sleeps at nursery and she held on till she work. I've been sending 10 oufit changes every day and she's come home in her original clothes with no accidents!
DD is clearly not my child as she's a fast learner