Charter's Anonymous: Volume 4, hoping our bodies obey the rules!

[MrsArchchancellorRidcully]

Brand new shiny thread created (sorry Getdown, I am bored at work )

Hoping that all of us still waiting get the news we want and soon!!

At least it's almost New Year, new start

Oh no nix not more flippin waiting! Im sure everything will be ok. I'm glad your brown goo has gone away though. And yeh glad temps have gone up, hope they stay up :)

Haha split! get yourself up to the nearest loo to be sick. Maybe I'll be lucky and it'll be me being all green and sick in a few weeks!

Hi everyone. Sorry for joining you then promptly b*ggering off. Was doing the faaahhmily thing over Christmas in a house where mobile phone signal was sketchy and no wireless.

Will read back through the thread properly in a tick. Did see Terrys news, so sorry, hugs from me. How are you doing now?

Thanks for the instructions on how to share my chart. Think I have done it right. Here it is.
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Although pretty dullsville at the moment as only on CD8 and only started temping yesterday - tend to give myself AF off temping. Probably being they will be messed up with a lot of sleeping in and also the booze over Christmas pre Ov. Do you find that this actually does affect your temps?

Only just shaken off my spotting too so TTC charting starts again with sleigh bells on.

Hi Ladies - Sorry I havent been around much, have been at the parents since last Monday up until today after the roads here became so trecherous to travel (parents only live 10 mins away from my work). Terry, I'm so sorry to hear what you had to go through over Christmas - thinking of you :( Well, I have my booking appt with the MW tomorrow, and I hoping she will send me for an early scan as I'm starting to panic now as I feel absolutley fine! I have had no sickness, nausea only comes in short waves every once in a while, and I don't feel as exhausted as I think I should. My only reassurance is this massive sore boobies and the spotty tennage face Cramping & stretching feelings stopped at about 7 weeks, and I've had no bleeding or spotting. I'm hoping I'm just very very lucky!

If Some women get no symptoms! Spilt starting to think you may be cooking 2 beans in there your tiredness is so severe!! :) hope you are both feeling suitably sickly xx my nausea comes and goes depending on level of hunger!

I hope not Nix!

Doubt it though, I am just rubbish at pregnancy. Also sleeping very badly which is probably a factor in the tiredness. I am making the most of no demands on me this week to laze around utterly.

Wish I could get to sleep though!

ravenlocks I found sleeping in would muck up my temps. Can't remember about booze though - I never made a note of it (never drunk much either, complete lightweight).

Hello everyone.

I am new to this site, and I have just started charting, well taking temperatures and using ovulation tests etc. Not quite sure what I am doing yet!

Any advice would be appreciated!

Morning AD and welcome!

Are you using ff and can you put a link to your chart.

My chart here

10dpo but not getting hopes up.

MrsA your temps look like they've gone up higher than in previous cycles, so that is positive. When do you think you will test, or do you think you will leave it to see if AF arrives? You can be assured of my stalking

I've got crosshairs !! Woo-hoo! 3DPO. Now begins the wait.

Hi there AuntieDoris and welcome.

I second MrsA's recommendation of Fertility friend - has loads of information on how to get started with charting, and recording fertility signs. Most of us here are on it.

Great news on the cross hairs getdown! Settle in for the 2WW.

Question for you as I am a bit of a novice at CM charting. How do you best record on FF if you get different types of CM in the one day? Do you record all and send FF into a spin or just one (most fertile?)?

Hi ravenlocks you are supposed to record the most fertile CM you get in any given day. It's tricky though, as like you, I often have days where it starts off creamy and then seems to progress to stretchy later on So on these days I tend to record "Eggwhite" even though they probably aren't proper fertile days. I quite often get EWCM that is creamy or cloudy for quite a few days before the really slippery clear stuff comes.

How are you doing?

Hey everyone. Not been here for a couple of days, been doing the Christmas/family thing.

Hope your booking in appt goes well If.

Welcome AuntieDoris. I would also recommend Fertility Friend, it has lessons on charting that I found helpful.

Glad to see your crosshairs getdown. I am still playing a waiting game of a different kind, waiting to hatch an egg which I know you will sympathise with! On CD 19 and not really any signs yet.

Hope everyone else is ok.

Oh no! I've just put todays temperature into FF and its put crosshairs on for Sunday. I didn't see that coming at all and I'm not sure I believe it. It's probably a bit messed up due to sleeping in and drinking. Here it is, what do you think?

I have just started using FF but finding it confusing. I am currently on the free basic membership and I am not sure if it is worth paying for the extra membership.

Hi all!!

Welcome AD

Woohoo getdown for crosshairs!!

Oh no mrsp have you done enough SWI?

My temps gone down today and getting more stupid cramps I've had for the last 20 days!! chart. Not holding my breath and feeling very negative today.

Hi mrsa split ifat raven :)

Wave to everyone I've missed.

hello everyone :) as xmas is behind us I have changed back to being a hen, not a turkey.... :) Speaking of which someone in a house nearby has got a cockrel for xmas. It started crowing at 4am. DP says we may have cockrel for lunch soon if it doesn't shut the f* up:(

Anyhow - first welcome auntydoris- I am on ff and did find it confusing at first. It's just a matter of playing around until you get used to it.

iwish I think your chart looks good! Don't worry about being negative, but it ain't over till AF starts - you know that
mrsp - were you not expecting it to give you cross hairs yet? Have you had any other signs of ov?

raven when it comes to CM - sometimes I look at mine and it doesn't fit into any category. Quite often I will just put what I guess it might fit in to - not right I am sure !

getdown so you are in the 2ww now? :) good luck with the patience - I swear next time I am not going to test until I am at least 2 days late!

Hello to everyone - a special squish to terrys

Nothing happening here . I have finished my AF -4 days of light stuff, but still feel crampy and sick. I swear If I didn't chart and knew my temps had dropped then I would think I was pg. If I am brewing the lurgy then it is going to hit big time as I have felt like this for weeks now :(

Oh and good luck mouse for tomorrow xx

No no no no - it's nix going for a scan tomorrow isn't it?? Am confused :(

Thanks for that tip re the CM- have recorded today as creamy (even though was dry for part of the day), seem to have skipped right passed sticky!

Hi AuntieDoris I think FF is really useful. When I first started I was a bit bamboozled by it all too. What I did was started off just putting in the dates of my period (and I actually had been recording these in my diary so went in an retrospectively put in about 4 cycles) and I actually found this helpful with even predicting AF start dates. Then I progresed to adding in OPK results and then to temps aswell. Only last month did I start adding in CM fertility signs and haven't begun to use it for any more (ie pg sypmtoms etc). I am not sure what the basic membership is like, I think they give you free VIP to start with and then (yes I fell straight into the marketing trap!) I bought VIP membership when the free trial was about to run out.

MrsP the temps are only just above the coverline, and if you have been sleeping in and having some alcohol I think that can raise them a little, so I would keep SWIing, esp as you say you haven't had any other signs. FF prone to changing her mind I think!

Iwish your chart looks beautiful! Maybe a nice implantation dip in there too? How long is your LP?

My LP has been 12 in previous cycles where I have temp'd, but last cycle was 11 - am wondering if that has anything to do with the EPO I took last cycle, or just a natural fluctuation??

Get well soon batteryhen!

Btw like that we have some preggers ladies on this thread, all other conception threads I have joined this hasn't been the case. Somehow it make it feel more lucky, as if to say "see it is possible to get pg"!!

Whoop! Well done GetDown and thank goodness for that! so, 11 days of the 2ww to go for you then

Welcome AuntieDoris. Are you ttc your first baby? What sort of advice were you after? (by which I mean any specific questions and if so fire away, there's lots of knowing folk on here!). If you've just started using FF did you get the 30 days initial free VIP trial? That will have shown you what extras you'd get for paying. If you are considering upgrading then wait until it comes on offer - it seems to do that every couple of months and for 9 days flashes up messages offering discounted membership (usually 40-60% off I think) so worth waiting for.

MrsP that's weird isn't it. Like you I'm skeptical. Looking at your other charts you've had very strong temperature rises and that hasn't happened with this chart yet. I would keep an eye on your CM and keep up the SWI.

It ain't over Iwish your temps are still nicely above the coverline. 10dpo so not long to wait now. Hoping for you.

Welcome back to the hen

terrys hope it went ok with your mum this morning.

ravenlocks I think us pg ladies are just too comfy here to leave. I like you all and I want to keep in touch with the folks on here. I feel like you're my friends . Also (speaking for myself) I have no confidence yet in remaining pg. Puked up this morning though for the first time. Sick as a dog from 6.30am til 11ish. Horrible, but definitely easier to bear than last time as now I know that the pain of losing a baby is much worse than the misery pregnancy throws at me. This too shall pass.

I'm the same raven, I bought the VIP membership too! I optimistically only got three months but that's just run out so signed up for another six.

I think your chart looks lovely iwish. Yay, another chart to stalk!

The trouble with me is that I don't ov regularly. Every time I think I've settled into a pattern it changes again, so it's entirely possible that FF is right. We have done some SWI but I thought we were just practising. So I'll keep at it just to be sure.

Hope you feel better soon battery.

Thanx battery I know it aint over yet I think I have those days of being negative and sone when I feel quite good. Yesterday was a good one when temps went up from my plummet the day before... And lol at the cockrel!! Made me giggle. I hope you feel better soon, the lurgy has been going round and I hope you don't get it.

raven my lp is usually about 13/14 days I think. I'm really hoping it was an implantation dip. It's just these flippin cramps, I get them every month that start from just before OV until end of AF so I don't know what to think, maybe I wouldn't get them if pg. How are you?

split thanx, the wait is killing me lol!! Glad to hear you are sick as a dog, bean causing trouble nicely I see :) it wouldn't be the same without you and the other ladies here.

mrsp aww thanks, I feel special being stalked . Keep up the SWI just in case. I can have a go at stalking yours too :)

You know I feel a bit better now!! Thanks ladies! You are all so lovely xx

Will catch up properly later on when DH isnt complaining about me sat at the computer chatting!! Spilt trying out your roasties with apple sauce, but have added sausages, gravy stuffing & a bit of the old green stuff for good measure - cooking now - YUM hurry up and go to sleep DS! Welcome back Hen, sorry you feel lurgied, lots about atm and its hideous!!

Fab for the crosshairs getdown...!! Will chart stalk properly later when have scoffed :)

nix you're making me hungry!! Sounds delish.

Thanks for the stalking ladies!

mrsP I am not convinced from your chart you have actually ov'd as your 3 high temps were all white dots (ie. some kind of disturbance such as the alcohol) and you didn't record any EWCM, so am a bit confused why FF has put crosshairs, but I agree she does tend to change her mind a bit when she gets more data to go on.

battery I am smiling at your neighbour's cockerel! Not the kind of early wake up call you need!

Iwish try not to feel negative, I think you are def still in with a chance

ah well done getdown, thats what i meant to say to spilt... i have been having 3 or 4 weetabix and raisins before bed and its filling me up so i dont get the nausea thorugh the night or early morning!!
Cant stomach other cereals though :)

Ha ha MrsP I did EXACTLY the same thing re buying 3 months of VIP FF thinking "of course I will be pregnant in that time", then sulkingly buying 6 months, 3 months later!

Oh getdown I had always wondered what the white/ hollow dots were on charts. Not that I have any myself as I don't tend to tell FF what time I temp'd or if I drank night before... almost like I don't want to disappoint her as imagine her as a strict headmistress type... how bonkers am I??

Iwish since paying attention to my body whilst TTC I think I get the same - ie cramps, twinges, funny sensations in the womb area all through the LP. I have convinced myself that this is what post Ov feels like with that P hormone (can't spell it!) that dominates post Ov and that the reason I haven't noticed it before is because I was on the pill for a million years. Like you I am wondering whether if in a pg cycle they wouldn't be there. I didn't notice last time either way.

I need to think about what specific bits I need to get to grips with (I guess it is impossible to know what you don't know when you don't know anything!)

I will come back to this thread properly in the New Year as I am going to have patchy Internet access until then.

I really appreciate the kind welcome and help tho!

In the meantime, Happy New Year ladies :)