Charters Anonymous Volume 7. Charting and shagging our way to victory!

[digitalgirl]

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Join us in egg-hunting, cm analysing, chart-stalking and plotting our way to a bfp. Or just generally losing the plot. All welcome!

Oh, arse!

Morning all - sorry about your temp drop faith, and island i think i may consider it if we get that far. I'm due to test on Friday and my appointment with the assisted conception unit is Monday so I'm clinging on to the hope that I get a BFP and will not have to fight for IVF/ICSI.
However, my temp dipped this morning, although I did take it an hour earlier than normal. Mega sore boobs and occasional waves of nausea but my temp is making me feel a bit disheartened.....considering not taking it for the next few days but I don't know if I'm strong enough!

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Did you leave it this morning then fishfinger? sounds like your in a ideal place to get that ironic bfp!
I did mine (bear in mind warmer in tent overnight) and temp has gone back up see here. I did wonder about implantation dip bit thought its a bit late? Suspect just environmental fluctuations. Not easy whilst camping, chilling cervix is very dodgy! The dip has knocked my confidence though.

Hi faith - kidney infection has struck so my temp is through the roof, its been over 100F all day so will see how it is in the morning.
Yours is looking better so don't lose hope just yet!!!! I hate these last few days of the 2WW, analysing every dip and rise!!!!

Think I said on other thread but hope you feel better soon fishfinger.

Congratulations isla!

Welcome fishfinger and sorry to hear you're unwell.

Nothing much happening chartwise here. Am on my way to see my consultant to try and score some egg popping drugs. CD19 today so hopefully he'll scan me and see what my ovaries are doing.

eek - there's so many of us having a chilled out month that we dropped off page one

Like you jaggy thats what I was trying to do, had EWCM today and got a shock and thought that I had better styart swi now. Shame DH is in London till tomorrow mind you.

Hello charters!

I find myself here again after a tough few weeks with a mc :(
It was all a bit prolonged with some bleeding followed by a scan which showed a baby with a hb but measuring too small and then another scan with no growth and no hb, an ERPC and then over 4 weeks for the BFP to turn BFN. Anyway, I've now had first AF and am trying to get my head round ttc again.

Anyway, so how are all of you? I've tried skim reading the last page but I feel v out of date with all the happenings! Good to see some newbies have joined though :)

Aw crap SES :( :( Really sorry to hear that. FX it won't be too long a wait for your next BFP.

Yup lots of newbies so was quite busy for a while, also lots of people this month trying to have a low key less obsessing/FF month though so a bit quiet right now.

I am finding it strange not to know when I ov'd!

Hi SES, sorry to hear of your loss. Glad to hear you're feeling ready to get back on the horse now.
Well I'm out for this month af got ne this morning, unusually light for cd1 though. Hsg and pelvic ultrasound now booked for Wednesday. Be glad to get them.over and done with.

Hello again jaggy :)
What is this "low key obsessing" and "not knowing if you've ovulated" you speak of?! Doesn't compute with me! I've been temping through my wtf cycle and the temps were all over the place. My temps are still up despite AF so I'm wondering if actually my v light AF wasn't AF at all but coincided with ov. I guess I'll know in a couple of weeks!

Hello havealittlefaithbaby :) Sorry for AF but hope next Wednesday brings you that bit nearer your BFP.

I know SES - it is v weird! It's the first time in 10 months that I've not done any temps at all! I was just going a bit nuts with the 2WW stress so thought this might help me feel better...

I think it has a bit. Along with the more regular SWI rather than the big pre-ov stress/effort. Although i couldn't stop myself from noticing CM and checking cervix a bit - didn't let on to DH though.

Sorry about AF have - more practice eh -

Hi all, AF is around the corner. Had a light bleed on wipe on Thursday morning followed by my usual brown spotting since then, so just to be sure I POAS this morning as I'm off to a party tonight and as expected it was BFN. It was my first month of not crying when I told DH, so I think I'm starting to accept that it won't happen to us naturally. I sent my letter to the hospital this week, but haven't heard back yet. Will go and see my GP to see what he thinks our next step should be.

SES sorry about your MC

duck hope you managed some well timed SWI

have sorry AF got you

fishfinger kidney infection sounds really painful. Hope you're coping ok

jaggy really glad to hear the chilling is working out for you

isla have you got loads of symptoms now?

Hi to everyone else and sorry for not name checking

SES so sorry to hear of your mc.

Scrummy and havealittle boo to AF. Have fun at the party scrummy. I hope you make progress deciding on the next step, and I really do hope it will happen naturally for you soon.

jaggy keeping my fingers crossed for you. Not knowing when I ov'd last month did drive me a little insane at the end - although that was no different feeling than when I did know when I ov'd. Insanity is my general 2WW feeling!

As for me, about 5.5 wks now. Don't feel pregnant much, but not sure I did at this stage with DD. Have resisted the urge to try a CB digi again to see if the conception indicator has gone up; even if it hasn't what could I do but wait anyway. I've been on a bit of a rollercoaster since though; 5 days after my BFP my mum has been diagnosed with ovarian cancer and its pretty full on, not to mention a massive shock. I'm so scared she won't be here to see this baby born but I am trying my best to stay calm, and positive. I'm feeling quite stressed which can't be good for me, or the pregnancy.

Oh bless you isla what a difficult situation. My Mum had ovarian cancer so sadly I'm fairly well informed about it. Have they caught it early? I know its easier said than done but try to stay calm. The Macmillan website is very helpful (but steer clear of any statistics). You can always call Macmillan as well. Let us know if there's anything I can do (feel free to pm me).

Isla - sorry to hear the news about your mum. FX that it can be treated easily. Congrats on your BFP though!

Sorry for AF Scrummy

Had a good day here as did DH a surprise party for his 40th. He's still there so he must have enjoyed it! (I had to come home with DS as he was knackered!)

isla I am so, so sorry to hear the news about your mum. That must be really stressful for you and I can understand how you would feel worried about the affect it might have on your baby. Baby's are grown and born in the most stressful situations in life so try not to worry too much. Maybe concentrate on doing nice girly things with your mum as that would no doubt help both of you - like a regular slot in the diary where it's all about pampering and creating nice memories.

SES well done on keeping the party secret! shame you didn't get to stay the distance!

really sorry to hear your news isla. :( It must be hard having so much going on in your life at once.

thanks for keeping your fingers crossed for me. :)

i am so struggling to not POAS for some reason this month.

i thought i was so over early testing as well and the first to encourage anyone else to step away from the tests!

i think if i can resist tomorrow morning, i can wait till the end of the week when AF is probably due.

oh and isla - i think temporary insanity describes it perfectly, whether I've done temps the whole month, just up to ov or not at all, the need to just know is a bit overwhelming!

Thanks ladies. havealittle so sorry you've been through this too. I don't think its been caught early but its treatable. I'm just going to have to be there for mum and think positive. Saw mum today and just being able to give her a hug has reduced my stress levels (she's about 2-3 hrs travel time from me), so thats good.

and back to the subject - wishing everyone lots of luck in TTC...

and... step away from the test!!!

BFN for me.

I caved and got rid of that test that has been sitting in the cupboard annoying me since whenever it was that i got a false positive and got all excited. I havent POAS since March so it must have been a while...

Like most early tests it doesn't really tell me that much, especially since i don't know if/when i popped an egg this cycle anyway. Am thinking it's not going to be a good news month though.

Glad I got that out of my system - maybe I just have to do one every few months to remind myself not to!

Hi ladies an I (re)join you?

My Ds is already 17months and I would love to get pregnant very soon. However, I'm finishing my PhD and looking for a job... so it's not the "ideal" time to get pregnant again.
My Ds was premature (35w) and it took me a long time to overcome the guilt - feeling guilty that my body had let us down, by not being able to have a term baby. I'm scared of having a premature baby for the second time, but I would love to have another baby, and especially i would like to have a small gap between DC.
Oh well... life not always go according to our wishes, does it? I think I'll just have to be patient and hold this desire for another couple of months.

Congratulations to the bfp and good luck for those ttc.

x

jaggy I can almost feel the sense of relief with you testing, but of course very sorry to hear it was a BFN. But like you said, it could be just too early?

Hi evitas and welcome (back). Sorry to hear about your last experience not quite going to plan. I'm sure the doctors have already assured about what the chances are of it happening again?

isla glad to hear you met with your mum....

Argh lost my post!

Went something like this

jaggy
SES

Welcome evitas!

My chart is weird. Still not ovulated and scan last week showed no follicles. However am now on a special herbal potion which should help ovulation so hopefully not too long. If no bfp this cycle I'm going on a clomid-type drug called Letrazole. So will be interesting charting through that. And hopefully cycles will be shorter than my usual 40-50 days.