Just MC and ready to try again? Pack your cake, wine and tightie whities and join us for more ranting, weeping and most of all laughing! All welcome! (Part 12)

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A safe place for everyone on the TTC after MC rollercoaster. Welcome and come in - virtual wine and chocolate for all, and lots of support and hand-holding until you get your BFP!

The thread moves fast but don't let that put you off - feel free to come along and stay to chat; or dip in and out with any questions.

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WTTC = waiting to TTC
UCL = usual cycle length

Good luck to all - here's hoping for lots of healthy, sticky BFPs by the end of the thread

For reference here's a link back to the previous thread

Latest stats to follow in a moment!

Hello everyone, SMEP here too...off to bed now (it's half past ten, btw)
AandR SMEP link
And started on the pink GF today, in addition to 1000mg EPO and 100mg B6 (!)

Tis sperm meets egg plan aandr . Would do a linky but can't on iPhone. If u google it you'll find it, if not I'll link tomorrow. Basically swi every other day, and then when you get pos opk xo 3 days, day of rest, and then final day of swi. And rest!

Xpost with everyone!

aandr I was going to a clinic in London to investigate the MC before I got the BFP. They are now monitoring me and taking regular bloods, and one of the things they're testing for is natural killer cells. Apparently there is only one lab in the world that can test for it (??!?) and it is in Chicago so that's why it's going on a little holiday!

SMEP is the 'sperm meet egg plan' - a few pages back (probably quite a lot of pages back now though!) there's a link to an extensive list of actions to assist the swimmers to do the trick!

pooch I'm on asprin, they only told me to start taking it after the BFP.

I LOVE gypsy wedding tv program!

Chloe sorry you're feeling so rubbish, I hope it's pg symptoms not chlomid
Eggy sorry for your loss. My bleeding tailed off after about 9-10 days, but my friends took a lot longer. Sorry you're getting rubbish service from your GP, I hope it settles down soon. Collie is right it is exhausting, I underestimated how much
Pink sorry about your commute I hope your blood makes it to Chicago ok
Mamap what an awful dream, I've had one of those, I think Nix has too. I hope you can shake it off
Knitter well done on the diet! Hopefully you won't need FF and your learning will have been for nothing
AandR I don't blame you for turning down the herbs. And for the emotions, I just saw a baby on telly and bawled my eyes out

For anyone that remembers from November, I got my exam results today, 75% and 82%, needed 50% to pass

SMEP - ' 40% of post mc women will get pregnant on their first try if they stick to the plan!' Those odds are worth the effort x

Well done orange !!!

whoop whoop well done Orange fab results :)

Although just re-red..... ' SWI every other day for nearly 3 weeks'.....Seriously?!!! sounds unlikely.

Ok, just read the SMEP and I'm in or rather I will be round about march!

Watching Mary Portas...

Ooh and well done orange x

Thanks I was especially surprised as I started MC at the start of one course, had to self-teach from notes, and got AF the day before my exam for it, so think it had more emotion attached to it then I thought

Nice one orange

Congratulations Orange

Another big fan of Gypsy Wedding here :)

Off to bed now - night night ladies

night night knitter

Seem to be doing the jetlag version of SMEP but I have a dispute with the stats. If there is a 25% chance of getting pregnant if you set up a date between egg and sperm then how do they claim 40% success rate?! If everybody followed the method then the best result surely would be 25%? Orange oh so clever lady turn your mighty brain to this!! (I would crack a bottle of champers for you as especially given the circumstances surrounding the exam they are impressive results - but we are saving the Champers for tonight's planning decision) Maybe we should expand the Great Gasby Grapefruit Experiment to include the Great SMEP Stat Check - I hope we blow their stats sky high!! Roll call Ladies - who is SMEPing this month. Sign up, sign up ....

1. AandRMum

Pooch my twin (don't tell my DMum that would mean 8 children to her name!!!) it sucks doesn't it but I am holding out great hope for the Great SMEP Experiment - so hop on board (your DH of course) and we will soon be popping out some scrummy babies!

orange congatulations, that's great welldone!

collie i can't even get dh to dtd every other day during 1 week never mind 3. i have to try and work out when's best as i have 4 possible cycle lengths, which is every 2 days but can't dtd every 2 days. gets very frustrating.

mummya good luck for today hope it goes well.

the 8 fl oz was about 3/4 of my glass so a bit more than i poured yesterday, but g/f and epo now taken.

I was talking last week about my af being weird and doubting whether it was a proper one or not and this is why, i found my post from back in oct
first post

it's so similar to now, 1 day heavier and spotting lasted longer, i had no clots or real heavy bleeding, but hpt still neg. but you can see why i was sounding so insane.

orange you big geek you! congratulations!!

aandr when's the planning decision due?

velvet hehe your comment about fanjo of swimmers has started a little song going round my head to the tune of 'pencil full of lead'-it's a bit repetitive so is driving me slightly mad but "I've got a fanjo full of swimmers and pipes full of eggs" going round and round and round and round..... No idea about the bath thing I'm afraid-must be soooooooo annoying not having a shower!

orange congrats! Glad you did well even after donating me all your exam luck - jsut think how well you could have doneif it wasn't for me! :)

Gonna be a me me me post I'm afraid.

-ve test this morning. Had AF pains for a couple of days now boobs still sore. I am not pg I am just sure of it as I always have def lines with tests, even early. I feel so pissed off this morning and so upset I just really hope AF comes soon and that I don't have to take the Provera to bring it on and I just can't be doing with the faff or hassle of it.

I feel like I have almost spent my adult life TTC, it took over a year with ds who is 5 this month and I haven't been on contraceptive since having him and have been actively trying for the best part of 3 years. This is the first time (other than before ds) that I have got this upset about about the -ve and I know it is because of the hell I seem to have gone through this month to get here. God I hate this, sometimes I wonder whether it is worth it but then I look at ds and know it is

Well done on your exams Orange. I'm sorry that's all I can remember

Can I half sign up to SMEP?

Can't get OPK's here (prob just as well...) but I know my cycle fairly well from charting so having a break today (day 13) then every day from tomorrow onwards, Monday off, then Tuesday. So we'll see....
Will also be drinking cough mixture tomorrow if GF hasn't done its work yet.

1. AandRMum
2. Zamster
3. MummyA

I know there are more SMEPers out there. Better be or else only 3/4 of one of us will get upduffed

I think these are right, but have probably forgotten some:

1. AandRMum
2. Zamster
3. MummyA
4. Izzy
5. YRMOTB
6. Velvet

Big ((hugs)) for Chloe sorry you're feeling so . My youngest is 4.5 now and I too have nothing yet to show for all those years without contraception. But we will get there, keep the faith x

Chloe what a long haul! Have you done any testing?