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

Any more news lovely ladies? Fingers crossed....

Huge congrats and yippee for finding your cat Tomboy!

Was going to say congrats to Milo but I?m not sure what?s going on, hope you get an answer soon

ERTD arrived sat but was expecting it as there wasn?t much bedroom action going on as I was ill.

Well DH and I have decided not to try these next 2 months. There?s so many jumping comps on over the summer that I want to do with the horse but if I was upduffed I couldn?t take the risk (fell off on Saturday while jumping) so it would ruin my summer. Selfish I know but I really love my jumping comps. I figure if we start again in August, that way I could be pg all over the winter, then be due just in time for next season to start

Hope everyone is ok

I totally get you josie I want to ride this summer and love my jumping lessons .

Weimy - did you decide in the end to SWI or not SWI? Hope you're feeling a bit more positive at the mo - TTC can get really upsetting and tedious, can't it?

Still no AF, test yesterday was BFN and waiting till the weekend to test again. Still getting cramps and thinking AF is starting, and feeling weepy all the time despite not being upset about anything.
Zero concentration, can't stop thinking about it, but I know the chance is very small as it is definitely past day AF due so a clearblue digital should show if I was pregnant.

cookie good luck with the clomid,I'll be interested to hear how yuo get on as I suspect my consultant will be putting me on it after my appointment next week.

Josie jumping comps sound fun I have to admit that I was always a bit of a wimp when it came to jumping - I'm happy doing it if I know the horse will jump but put me on something that is prone to stopping and I get the wobbles!

milo hang on in there [hugs]

[waves] to everyone else

oh milo I hope this gets sorted soon xx

imps You are right about it being tedious, have been swi'ing a bit, but not forcing the issue, have not used opks etc so no idea about ov. Not going to do the dpo thing will just wait for AF and see.

cavemum the horse I train on is very prone to stopping, she does canter to dead stop with great skill!!!

Here begineth my 3ww.... Think we've done all we can in the SWI dept, have no idea when or if I actually ov this cycle (temps have been a bit all over the place & didn't feel anything this time), I think it was late anyway judging by when the LH surge came. I reckon AF is due on 16th but I won't poas until 22nd at the earliest... I won't, I won't, I won't!

Pleased your cat turned up Tomboy!

Josie sounds like you've got a nice relaxed and FUN summer ahead, good for you for taking that decision

weimy, hope your chilled approach does the trick - I'd like to try that myself, but I fear I'm in too deep with the opks, temps, PeriodTracker etc

Hi everyone, I've not posted for ages but have been trying to have a catch up to see what's been happening and so great that we've had a BFP

We moved house a couple of weeks ago so everything's been rather hectic, amazing though.

We're now on cycle 6 and to be quite honest it's begining to get to me. I know in the grand scheme of things it's not that long but it's worrying me.

OH has been suffering quite badly with his sinuses over the past few weeks and what with moving and everything we seem to be doing the deed even last now than before we were actually trying...which quite frankly is starting to piss me off

I know that OH still wants this as much as me but I'm struggling to stop myself from screaming at him when he rolls over and goes to sleep during the fertile few days! This cycle is probably down the drain again because we only DTD on Sat and on Mon he didn't finish (sorry for TMI) and I don't even know whether I've even ov'd anyway because I only started using the sticks yesterday and I'm on day 15 today.

Really sorry for the rant but if I don't do it here I'll rage at OH instead and that will quite frankly get me nowhere

I've just read the post back and realise that I sound grossly unsympathetic towards OH and illness, I'm not but just wish more effort could be made in between illness, times of stress etc

Milo I hope you get some answers soon

Fingerscrossed feel free to rant on here, I know how you feel ? even when I tell DH it?s the fertile time he rolls over and goes to sleep too, drives me mad! I just wish sometimes he would seduce me instead of the other way round

My pg colleague just felt the baby kick for the first time (she has been having loads of bother recently and hasn?t felt it move at all). Was fab for her and everyone else, not so much for me I?m dealing with it a lot better now though, I?m able to see her and think it?ll happen to me one day. It?s still not easy but it?s much much better these days.

Have had a long chat with DH about how much riding we would be happy for me to do whilst pg and we?ve agreed that we are going to keep trying (we?re so close to the year mark we figure it has to happen soon ) and if it does happen I?ll just stick to smaller jumps and just take it easy. There?s always next year aswell. You never know, when I get pg the urge to ride might go away and I might not mind not doing jumping events this year.

Josie just point out to DH that Mary King rode at Badminton whilst pregnant years ago I think she may have been as far along as 7 months [faints at the prospect of jumping round Badminton full stop]

Ditto Cave I'm quite content to watch it and pretend that my ned could do those jumps Incidentally, the ned just stood on my foot and knocked me over on the yard. Now I have to go back to work covered in dust

Roll on month 11!!!

Hi- was wondering if I could join this thread? I am brand new to TTC as hubbie and I only decided to start trying properly yesterday! We've been talking about it for so long and it's never the right time (I am trying to finish a PhD, working full-time and we're renovating our house!) but having a baby is more important to us than anything so we're going for it! A few weeks ago I had an operation to treat endometriosis and I also have polycystic ovaries so I am trying to prepare myself for a potentially long wait. I am 26 and OH is 29 and we've been married 3.5 years and together nearly 9. My periods are really irregular so I'm thinking of temping. I'm on day 32 now so hoping AF hurries up (and hoping operation has made them less painful!). Good luck everyone! :)

Ooooh hello and welcome Kate! Fingers crossed all went well with the operation and I hope that your stay on this thread isn't a long one :)

Fingers - I SO know where you're coming from! If only making a baby was left purely to us women - we do the ERTD, the temps, the OPKs, the CM spotting, the calendar watching, the symptom spotting - but it's all totally useless without the bloody sperm and we have to rely on our sodding delightful other halves for that!!

OH and I had a chat last week about how our sex life has become, quite frankly, a bit shit since starting TTC - we've made an effort to go back to the good old days of shagging just for the sheer fun of it - going well so far, so long may it continue particularly when I'm ovulating. I've also told myself that I have GOT to lighten up about timings etc - putting the pressure on OH is just no good and puts up both in a bad mood.

Late - god, doesn't 3 weeks sound like a looooooooooooong time?? (Sorry, that probably doesn't make you feel any better does it?) Hope you have some nice juicy symptoms to make the wait a bit more interesting.

Right, I'd best go water the garden - it's all looking a bit desiccated out there at the moment.

Welcome kate!

rant away fingers

josie I think I would probably carry on for a bit too :)

imps here's to being relaxed

Welcome Kate, I hope your stay with us is a short one - in the nicest possible way!
I was recently diagnosed with polycystic ovaries too, so understand your pain. I had a HSG 2 weeks ago which showed I have one blocked Fallopian tube so am meeting with my Gynaecologist next week to discuss the next step.

Imps I hear you on the routine sex front! With DH living away in the week it is all too easy for us to say we're busy/tired at weekends so I've told DH we need to make more of an effort to have regular sex (at least twice between Friday night and Sunday night), particularly as I already have fertility issues!

Happy Wednesday Evening everyone, the week is half over already!

Just had huge row with nob head of a husband, I can't bloody stand the way he puts me down, dismisses my opinions and wont ever admit that he is wrong. Never actually listens to what I say. I hate him at the moment.

He refuses to believe about the fertility period each month because it is information I discovered on the internet, he also thinks that I am being led by you and can't make my own choices.

Last chance to swi this month all fucked up, but then why would I want to have a child with someone as arrogant as he is

Hi Kate. We only decided to start trying last week.
I wonder how long we both will be here?

weimy did he not do biology at school?

Oh weimy ((hugs)) for you. Take a deep breath, maybe go for a walk with the hounds to clear your head.

Do you have a book you can put in front of him to explain how female fertility works? when we first started talking about ttc my DH had no clue whatsoever about how it all worked from a female perspective. He was honestly shocked to realise that there were only a few days each month when a woman is fertile. I guess it comes down to the fact that boys don't tend to get taught about periods, etc at school.

Can you put your concerns down in writing for him? He may not realise how you feel - men are a bit dim like that.

Cavemum He doesn't really read (and can't stand me reading when he is in the house), might see if there are leaflets with pictures and big writing .

pip he didn't do much at school other than stare out the window.

I think it is more about him wanting to disagree with me, he has this need to be superior and in charge (like his sister). There is never any point in my having a different opinion to him as he will dismiss it. He accuses me of being aggressive and not listening as all the while he is the one who is shouting and putting me down and getting the dog all upset because she hates raised voices.

(breathes)

Am running a bath and will choose a book to read as he has gone to meet his friends and play football.

Weimy - ARRRRRRRRRRRG MEN!!! My OH is skeptical of anything science-based that I happen to trust/believe in. I used to get annoyed with him (which I think added to his enjoyment!!) but now my stock response is to shrug and say "Well, that's science honey - sorry if it's too much for you to understand" (or similar). Don't let your DH get you down - we know the truth about these things and that's all that matters!!

What book did you choose?

Kate and Pipbin - hoping that one of you at least is a Cycle 1 Wonder!

Thanks Imps7.

TBH my work situation now means that to get pg now would be rather awkward so I won't mind if it takes a little longer.

Welcome Kate and Pipbin

Weimy I really hope you're feeling a bit better. Men can be sooooo unbelievable insensitive sometimes, I always try to tell myself that it's because they just don't think the way we do and don't fully understand but it doesn't always help when all you want to do it rip their head off!

Well I think this months opportunity has definately gone down the pan this month, think I must have o'd by now and we only had one sucessful SWI on Sat, I was the one too tired last night...not that I think I would have got anywhere if I hadn't been!

Thank god us girls have got each other that's all I can say!