The First Time Frolickers, come and get your pg tests here as we’re all going to need them on this thread! Come and join us if you have vast experience of hiding from pg ladies and babies!

[JosieSmith1]

Here?s the new thread! My imagination left me this morning so I apologise for the crap thread title!

I think I?ve got the list right but I may have completely messed it up, sorry!

TomboyWife TTC#1, Cycle 15, UCL 28, CD40
Truffkin TTC#1, Cycle 9, UCL 28, CD20
LateToTheTTCParty TTC#1, Cycle 3, UCL 26-ish, CD18
evilgiraffe TTC#1, Cycle 7, UCL 28, CD15
LizzyMathsWhizzy TTC #1 Cycle 3 UCL 30 days CD14
Impers TTC#1 Cycle 3, UCL 35, CD14
CookieMoo TTC#1, cycle26, UCL26, CD12
FingersCrossed TTC#1, cycle3, UCL29, CD8
Weimy TTC#1, Cycle4, UCL28, CD7

MI SWI A
TanteAC TTC#1
Yumstepmum TTC#
Ilovemarmite79 TTC1
Pinklady76 TTC#1
Puppygirl TTC#1
RaspberryTipple TTC#1
JosieSmith1 TTC#1
Kaloki TTC#1
Tigerseyemum TTC#1

Not Counting Days
CaveMum
Miffles
Chalky3
DessieLou
Zippys
Calyx
Ariesgirl
Goldmaple
MissFlick
Womanlytales
Gobolino
GardenPixie
Karstan

2010 Graduates
Superpenguin BFP 1 July
Haloflo BFP 22 July
Saor Alba BFP 7 August
MrsWajs BFP 13 August
stegasaurus BFP 27 August
Roamfree BFP 1st September
Kurlyvoice BFP 1st September
Crazybutterflylady BFP 1st September
Cherrycobbler BFP 3rd September
Crazydays BFP 4th September
Bellaby BFP 11th September
Highheelsandequations BFP 30th October
IfAtFirstYouDon'tSuceed BFP 25th November

Recent Graduates
Slowshow BFP 3rd January
Roundtable BFP 14th January
CrazyAlien BFP 29th January
Toriajayne BFP 16th February

Temp creeping back up... Getting a bit freaked out - used that due-date calculator which said if I am pg it's due on 23 Dec! Mental!

Oooooooh Late! Clearly the positive high temps vibes I've been sending your way are working! When do you POAS?? Sunday?? What DPO are you?

Morning all! I'm trying to keep my Mumsnetting to a reasonable level, hence a few days absence here!
Nice to see you KaliLoki glad things are improving a little for you. Probably best to take a rest on the TTC front, you never know if taking a break is just the thing your body needs.

Keeping fingers crossed for those approaching P-Day (Peeing Day that is!)

Just over a week until my appointment now so gearing myself up to tell my boss I'm going to need some time out for hospital appointments over the next month or two. He'll be fine about it, I'm not going to tell him the reason why, but I'm paranoid that people in the office will either figure out what is going on or assume I'm really ill! I can't go to our local hospital as they dont have a gynae department so have to go to the next town which involves a 40min drive each way plus appointment time, so no way I can hide them away before work/during my lunchbreak!

Morning everyone,

Ok, I'm getting obsessed about checking for signs of af - going to the loo far more times than is normal! So far I have no symptoms of anything. Thing is, if my luteal phase is as short as last month, I would be due to start af tomorrow. I am trying not to get my hopes up too much though as I think stress will have shortened it last month. Def going to wait till Sunday if nothing happens. Just wait, having typed this I'll start spotting in the next few hours! :(

Aaaah yes, you're at the obsessive pant-checking stage of the cycle CloClo! Best of luck - I have my fingers crossed for you.

I have loads more EWCM today AND I had a faint positive on my OPK yesterday....despite having had a strong positive on it last Tuesday and a clear negative at the weekend. So did I ovulate last Wednesday? Or have I not ovulated yet?? And why am I getting positives on my OPK at two different times of my cycle?????

WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON?????????????????????????

Whatever the fuck is going on, I shall take your advice Late and launch myself upon OH when he gets home tonight

Imps, I have heard that sometimes your body gets into gear to ovulate, hence rise in LH and positive opk, but then you don't actually ovulate - can be caused by stressful situations etc. Your body will then get into gear to try to ovulate again, so you have another spike of LH

FX Cloclo :)

Hmmmm, interesting CloClo - so I may not have ov'd yet then. Can't wait to see what happens next - it's like an episode of Morse

Imps That happened to me last cycle. My body clearly revved up to ov for CD 16, but then I got some weird gastric bug on the day I was due to ov. I then started to get lots of EWCM a few days later, and finally ov-ed on CD20. I guess it's an evolutionary thing - there's no point in ovulating when either you're too ill or stressed to make the most of it. Clever, but also slightly annoying.

As for me, I don't really know what's going on with my cycle. I'm on CD 14 and am supposed to ov in 2 days time, and I started getting a bit of watery CM the day before yesterday. But I bought a fertility monitor, and started using it for the first time this cycle; and it's still reading 'low fertility'. So I don't really know what to think! We're shagging with semi-intent at the moment, but I don't want to wear out poor DP early if I'm going to ov late! Aaargh. I wish my body would work like clockwork (but I suppose it's only my 3rd cycle after having the coil removed, so I should probably give it a break!).

Afternoon everyone

Sorry I haven't checked in for a while. Turns out I had a chemical pregnancy, after 3 positives, then negarives, then AF.

But I am raring to go for this cycle

Will have a proper catch up on everyones news, I seem to have missed loads

Sorry to hear that Maybe - must have been really disappointing for you :( hopefully this month will be your lucky one.

Ok, I've been going back through my period data and while I've had three cycles recently where I would have started spotting by now, my most common day to start spotting is day 28, this is only day 26. So I'm basing most of my obsession on the luteal phase I got last cycle. I really need to calm down and stop myself getting my hopes up - it's going to be a harder fall if not :(

Ok, feeling totally deflated. No sign of af or any symptoms yet, but had a letter through the door from my doctor telling me the results of my blood test last Friday are in and to make an appointment about the results. I admit I don't go to the docs very often but that sounds very efficient. If there wasn't a problem, would they have contacted me? I'm worried that the Day 21 blood test will show I haven't ovulated or something, so all my hopes for this month will have been false. I've made an appointment to get the results on Friday afternoon. I confess to having had a little weep :(

Don't panic Cloclo, if it was anything major they would have phoned you, not written a letter. They don't like giving results of blood tests on the phone these days because you've got to feel 'supported' or something... and at least you'll be in the right place to ask questions depending on what the results are. There's not long to wait, we'll all keep our fx for you

Shame Maybe, what a disappointment... but you sound revved up for the next cycle!

Imps, I am on CD25 with PeriodTracker telling me ertd is due in 3 days...
OMG, forget what I said about being all restrained and calm and relaxed - I SOOOO want to poas right now!!!!!!!
I thought I felt the beginnings of some ertd-type cramps this afternoon... don't know if I'm being a bit hyper sensitive - but I'm not checking my pants as often as Cloclo

In other news, have booked a long w/e to Barcalona for 2nd May BH w/e, whoop whoop!

Sounds lovely Late, me and oh were going to book something for this weekend but he has left his OU assignment to the last minute again so I'm just debating whether to drive down to my parents again instead.

I don't know, I really don't have a lot to do with docs but most I've had in the past have been a bit laid-back about getting results back - mine were taken on Friday and the letter was dated Monday which seems quick off the mark. I suppose they might have phoned me but would my reproductive cycle really have been seen as urgent, even if I didn't ovulate? I'm sure theyve got a lot more pressing cases. As you can tell, I'm definitely a glass half empty person!

My oh is type 1 diabetic and says that he always gets a letter to tell him to come in for results, but not usually as quickly, even if they are just routine. Fingers crossed they are just demonstrating great service, but I admit I've been looking up symptoms of anovulation and a lack of pmt is there. I've never missed a period mind...

Sorry for speculative ramblings anyway!

They might be trying to get ahead of themselves because of the bank hols :)

As the others have said CloClo please don't worry - I agree that they'd have telephoned you if there was anything significant. And at least they are acting efficiently, rather than sitting on test results for ages.

Late - repeat after me - "I will not pee on anything until at least Sunday. Anything. Anything at all. Particularly if it's something that might tell me that I am pregnant." Great news re: Barcelona - I've never been but would love to.

Maybe - nice to see you back! Sorry about the bad last cycle but glad to hear you're raring to go again!

Had a slight temp dip today - 8DPO - ooh let's hope it's implantation of that non-existent blastocyst (guess who's been reading a pregnancy book slightly prematurely )

Imps! Did you get some last night?

"I will not pee on anything until at least Sunday. Anything. Anything at all. Particularly if it's something that might tell me that I am pregnant."
(I actually peed on a opk strip last night, it says I'm not fertile at the moment but I did feel better for doing it!)

I was so sure I had that dull pre-ertd achy abdomen yesterday, and if I wasn't TTC it would be one of the things that would flag up that I was about to come on... Temp slightly raised again this morning too.... Forget the 2ww, it's the 2 DAY wait that's the killer!

Morning all,

I have thought about it and even if there is bad news I suppose at least I will be finding out about it earlier than later.

No sign of anything yet, but I've convinced myself I'm not now so not feeling a great urge to poas. It's actually only 10dpo for me so would be unlikely to get a BFP even if I was. Def got to hold on till at least Sunday!

Haa ha Late - no - I was too tired!! I peed on an OPK yesterday though given the faint positive the day before and it was a clear negative - therefore I didn't feel as though I needed to muster up the energy

How are your temps doing??

Aaarrrggghhh! I phoned the docs to see if there was an earlier appointment and my doc isn't in till tomorrow. So I asked if the receptionist could tell me the blood test results on the phone and she said no, they were just abnormal and I needed to come in.

I'm abnormal. Fantastic. No sign of af yet but it's obviously inevitable. The one thing I'm clinging onto is that day 21 for me was only 4dpo and that might have led to an abnormal result.

Feel like crying but instead I'm at work for a transition day.

That was an inappropriate and unprofessional comment for the receptionist to make to you CloClo. Abnormal can mean all manner of things - please please don't spend the day fretting. They are on the case and that of course is a good thing if there is something that needs further investigation.

Honestly, what is it with some surgery receptionists and their silly comments/breaches of privacy? I remember when I was about 16 and living at home when my dad went to collect his prescription from the local surgery and was told "Oh, Imps' contraceptive pill prescription is ready for her to collect now - perhaps you could let her know". That was excrutiatingly embarrassing - he of course had no idea that I was, you know, "having sex" or was on the pill. That still makes me really cross.

Imps, that's awful! That's a serious breach of confidentiality - you could have taken the receptionist to the cleaners for that.

Cloclo, try not to worry, "abnormal" could mean anything or nothing. You don't know until the doctor tells you - but definitely tell them that the receptionist has made you worry! She needs to be told not to say things like that.

It's the same old news for me lately - ERTD arrived yesterday, and I was not surprised at all, really. I'm getting quite used to this now, and am quite pleased I wasn't so upset I went home from work like last month...

Next person to update the list, can you alter mine? This is me for today:
evilgiraffe TTC#1, Cycle 9, UCL 28, CD2

Hugs and congratulations to all that need either (or both!). :)

thats outrageous!

Thanks ladies, I feel bad because I did ask the receptionist so I suppose she thought she was doing me a favour, SO not the case! I phoned my hubby and he is being positive about it, my mum has given me a talking to about reading too much into stuff without full info and has told me to find lots of things to occupy my time between now and appt. Normally I love school hols and lots of free time, today not so much.

Hubby has said he will come to appt with me if I'd like. Two heads have got to be better than one haven't they?

Sorry about af arriving Giraffe, its good that you are being philosophical about it but I fully understand the disappointment. FX for next one.

Imps, I can't believe your receptionist did that. Mind you, my mum once called the docs because she had been bleeding heavily for 2 weeks and was feeling awful, and she heard the receptionist say to the doctor 'it's just another woman moaning about the menopause'. My mum was fuming - she hardly ever goes to the docs and felt so belittled!

Sorry about AF Giraffe :(