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

Nice one Hippy! Hope your congratulations gets acknowledged- mine was blatantly blancked! Maybe it had something to do with the fact that I did not participate as much as I'd have liked to on this thread, due to family and work commitments.

Hello all I've been lurking around this thread for a while as I got started on charting but haven't yet joined...the recent spate of bfps tells me this is a good place to be though so I thought I'd actually come and say hello.

I'm 34 and currently ttc#3 after a mmc at 16 weeks in July. DS is 7 and DD is 4 so I would quite like another one sooner rather than later!

Here's my chart. It seems to be in freefall at the minute but I'm hoping that's ok for this part of the cycle? I've been having problems with my luteal phase, it was 7-8 days but regular acupuncture seems to have pushed it up to 12 days last cycle (yay!) so I'm hoping things will start to look more promising soon.

Btw mouse we've met briefly on ttc after mc, I read your last few posts and just wanted to say I had "brown" bleeding/cm towards the start of all 3 of my pgs and it never indicated a problem. However please push for an early scan just to put your mind at rest x

These threads move quite fast Fedup I'm sure noone deliberately blanked you! I do know how you feel though, I'm beginning to feel in the non-pregnant minority round here

Hi there IzzyWizzy welcome. I remember you from the MC thread too, but perhaps you don't remember me.

I've just waxed my legs in a bid to feel a bit more sexy Ouch! The pain!!

Hi Izzy and welcome! Sorry to hear of your mc, this is certainly a lucky thread and hopefully you'll get your BFP very soon. I tend to lurk, when I get a minute, otherwise can't partake as much as I'd like due to heavy work schedule and busier home life. We're ttc our first over 2+ years seriously now: nada. IVF at ARGC in the new year beckons. So, the pressure is off, in some respects. See you later. Good luck :-)

Hi ladies. Not much to report. Still a small amount of brown. Some pain but that could be anything.

Spoke to EPU this morning and have a scan on monday at 2.45.

Will only just be 6 weeks but at least they'll be able see either way. Fingers crossed for no more leakage this weekend.

Have a great weekend everyone xx

Xposts! Hi Getdown, how are you Hun? I take paracetamol half an hour before waxing mine! My pain threshold is lamentable- maybe that's why we've not been blessed with children yet!

Good luck Mouse FX. As far as I understand, the brown blood is nothing to worry about. Try not to worry. I know it's easier said than done, just lots of DVDs and choc should do the trick!

thanks Fedup! That's a good idea to take paracetamol before you start waxing! Why didn't I think of that, d'oh!

Anyway tis done now and my legs are a red blotchy mess beautifully smooth, so it's all worth it

Good luck mouse are you going to tell your DH?

Sorry for killing the thread... AGAIN!!!!

no you haven't

Getdown: Slap on some baby oil in gel form! Always sorts them out mega quick for me! Better than some expensive body lotions IMO. Don't knock it 'til you try it!

Hello getdown of course I remember you

Oooo haven't got any baby oil gel, I've got regular baby oil, will that do?? They are stinging like buggery rather a lot. I went slightly too close to my lady garden area

Fedup to you want to link to your chart so we can all have a nosy-nose??

izzy - we are pretty much on the same cycle day, so I will be stalking you following your chart with interest

you have restored my faith Getdown! (in everything- don't ask: just having a mega melancholic day today, until you popped your head through the door!) Thanks for that! Sorry for being so cheesy!

izzy I've thought the same re. the sexy undies, but just can't face it to be honest I am very boring I like my big comfy M&S beige coloured knickers

Fedup I see from izzy's post you are poss doing IVF? So sorry if I was insensitive re linking to your chart...

Awww Fedup have a hug ((((((((((((())))))))))

I know you can end up feeling ignored on these threads and it's horrible.

When I start feeling like that I realise it may be time to step away for a while. Then I come back at some point and waffle away to myself again

I will always make a point of saying hi to you now when you pop in so you don't feel left out , ok m'dear?

Izzy: ARGC, last week of January, can't remember exact date at the top of my head! Until this appointment, we couldn't think of a solution. We are optimistic, but if it doesn't happen after this, then we'll resign ourselves to the fact that it just wasn't meant to be... But secretly hope it does!
Getdown: am charting on paper: at the back of the TCOYF book. I'm such a Luddite, I know! Xxxx

You're so sweet Getdown, I'm not really that sensitive. But that would be sooo nice...
Not insensitive at all, I like charting as it confirms everything works as it should. Numerous tests on both of us have come back aok. Hence unexplained infertility tag. The fact of the matter is we are past our use by date now! Or should that be best before?!? He's 43, I'm 40. Frankly we left it too late as life got in the way... Now our eggs and tadpoles won't play ball! Can you blame them? I wouldn't!

Hello all

Been out at DS's toddler group christmas party and I am shattered, which is quite unlike me as I am usually full of beans

Hello to fedup, hippy and Izzy, its nice to see new and returning faces!

Although I have got my BFP last week (in case you didn't read back before this page) I am still partaking in this thread, partly as I am too scared to leave but mainly because everyone is so nice and I want to see their BFP's arrive!

mouse hope you are feeling better today and good luck at the scan on Monday, it probably feels like a million miles away but it will come around in no time, try and keep busy if you can. Are you going to tell DH?

GetDown you are a brave lady waxing anything - I am ouching just thinking about it!

I took another PG test this am but it wasn't very dark line - almost the same as the other day - shouldn't it be getting darker now? But temp was highest ever!

fedup x-post, I hope your IVF works, 40 isn't that old! My mum had my sister when she was 45!

Aw sorry, Fedup. There was rather a lot of excitement yesterday and people tend to get lost in the babble. Thanks for the congrats (if was aimed at me as well, my BFP was a few weeks ago now anyway so may not have been [blush}. But i'll take it.

Getdown my waxer advised Ibuprofen as is an anti-inflammatory bt otehrwise same principle as the paracetamol. Although TBH haven't had a wax since I was pregnant with DS . Good old BIC now.

Mouse it is good you haven't had much more blood and is brown only and you have a scan although sucks you have to wait over the weekend. Try and do some nice things to pass the time (you mentioned Christmas decs? We're doing ours too.

IzzyWizzy Welcome to the board. We need some new ladies . Your chart looks fine - just got to keep an eye on the pant snot and do the dirty now . Glad the acupuncture working for you. I'm seeing one post-mc to aid reocvery/hormonal balance etc. And I got my BFP on first proper (non-WTF) cycle post-mc so she must have done something right. I'm still seeing her now to try and support the pregnancy. And taking aspirin as a precaution too. Still sh*tting myself re:mc though.

See, I forgot Hippy. So sorry lovely Hippy. Yes, come back and chart again!

I would tell you to stop testing Terrys but I still am. This is where the internet cheapies come in to their own! It's quite a gradual change but over a couple of weeks you'll see them go really dark hopefully. But I AM NOT temping though - was driving myself mad with every little fluctuation.

The Congrats were and are aimed at all the BFPs Lady! Wishing all you lucky ladies a successful and uneventful nine months xxxx
Terrys: the general consensus is that I'd you've had babies earlier than your forties, then you are more likely able to make babies into an older age. But first babies happening after 40 are a rare occurrence. Not a scientific study, merely hearsay. But we have been rather unsuccessful thus far, so there may or may not be any truth in the matter!

Lady, Terrys and Mouse:
C O N G R A T U L A T I O N S ! ! !
what a beautiful Christmas present!