I am jolly well going to get pregnant this month and I'll brook no argument.

[allhailtheaubergine]

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None of that lilly livered talk, you are in exactly the right place.

Just blamed my DH for having my period (as in if he'd done his job properly I wouldn't be in pain now). I think I'm going to have to do some serious sucking up (pun intended) before any rat smacking commences.

Chin up schobe, all will be fine.

It is Day 8 in the BFP House, and The Bride is moving into Phase II of her plan

The important thing Schobes old chap is that you WILL definitely be getting pregnant at some point in the very near future. This month or next month is mere semantics. The rat's days are numbered.

What's Phase II Bridey? Sounds good.

Fertilty Friend has finally deigned to conclude that I have ovulated (on CD20) hurrah! So I am even more definitely pregnant than I was when I thought I was having an annovulatory cycie. . I am pleased, I was worried that all that sex was going to have been in vain and that we were going to have to start the whole ghastly "yes, we really do have to do it again tonight" process again next month. But as I am pregnant, there will of course be no need.

Am most intrigued by this mysterious Phase II...

Congratulations all round to those who successfully conceived this month; you give the rest of us so much hope.

I too have a PhD to submit (mid-September), and what better accompaniment to those last few months of desperate re-editing and trying to hash out some convincing argument to glaze over some hitherto unanticipated black hole in your hypothesis than the queasy exhaustion of the first trimester. I recall with morbid fascination how my brain had the synaptic potency of mashed potato last time around, so it?s all perfect really.

I very nearly parped whilst walking around the food stalls of Camden Market yesterday, which is essentially the same as a BFP, no?

I'm so sure that I'm pregnant that as I was nearly being run over this morning I called out to the motorcycle courier 'HEY WANKER I'M PREGNANT DON'T YOU KNOW'.

What's phase II now?

im still here waves

making the most of the nice evenings and downed a fair few beers this week. Well might as well make the most of it, will be a long 9 months without! lol and dh is convinced it's this month, think hes been making secret notes from every little thing i've moaned about! Hes worse and symptom spotting than me!

I would like details on this mysterious Phase II please. I thank you.

Ah Calyspo, how well I know the terror. With three weeks until submission (I feel sick having just typed that) I have another 20,000 words to write and my supervisor has gently wondered whether I might want to, you know, back up my arguments with some research. I have applied for an extension but I have no idea if it will be granted - technically my application is 2 months too late, so I'm thinking not. Pardon my while I vomit on my shoes

TIMING COULDN'T BE WORSE REALLY

I was at Camden Market just 2 days ago, eating Hungarian chimney cake. AFter all I'm practically eating for two, right?

Oh this is great, can I join too please?

This is the sixth month of trying (for number one) so it's definitely time. And since this month we were on holiday and shagging for England around ovulation, there is no way I'm not pregnant. Oh and I was a bit dizzy earlier week. Obviously because I'm up the duff and not because a) I hadn't eaten and b) had jet lag.

So I will be testing next Friday. Although it's obviously a foregone conclusion.

And I definitely have not spent most of this morning when I am 'working' from home looking at maternity wear.

Vomit bloofer? I think that may well be a touch of the old morning sickness.

Highlove you may as well purchse some of said maternity wear. You will definitely be needing it shortly.

Another PhD-er calypso You'd think we would know better!

Phase II is just the shagging bit.

Phase I- have period, use up all single, slightly fluffy tampons lurking in various handbags/ wash bags etc. Do NOT buy a new box, because, hey, you wont be needing them again, right?

Phase II- Days 8-18. Have lots of sex- at least once every 2 days.

Phase III- Await the BFP

AH! Understood, cap'n. In that case I am nearing the end of Phase I, and bracing myself preparing enthusiastically for Phase II. If I can lose another 3lb I'll be 10lb lighter than the last Phase II attempt, which should at least mean I get less weary .

Honestly, who'd TTC when TT lose 3 stone.

Timing couldn't be worse, really.

Gosh, what an intellectual lot of pregnant ladies we have on our thread!

I am currently taking a year out from my phd as I suddenly had the realisation that marking is actually the work of the devil and that if I had to look at another piss poor essay copied from the Internet By some snotty undergrad who never even bothered to turn up to a single seminar I would be forced to rip my own eyes out.

Phew! Sorry, had a moment there!

Anyway I am due to definitely not start my af In just over a week. My sleep patterns have gone crazy and I am sure my buzzooms hurt a bit today so that pretty conclusive I would say.

So how is progress with phase II? What phase am I on? I've lost count!

Well, I am about to dive in with both feet and swan off to see Aphrodite and hope she gets me up the duff. A romantic little sojourn, may oui.

I shall be embarking on Phase II of Certain Pregnancy this coming month. Clearly this month was just a practice month.

All this sexing is all very well, but dh has issues in that area and some months we only manage one happy ending during the supposedly fertile window.

Prior to my Stupid Weeing Stick (tm) I was sort of merrily assuming that even one good blast (excuse me) gave us a good chance. Now I have a stupid O staring dully at me I know we've got no hope again.

No luck last night. Trying again tonight. Oh but all the emotions and complicated feelings don't half get in the way.

Oh, aubergine, you poor thing. Remember sperm can hang around for something like four days so they may still locate the egg - someone told me that you should ideally be sexing before a positive OPK as well to give the sperm maximum chance. Good luck with more sexing over the weekend. You're right, the emotional side is so hard.

Allhail the OM had not dissimilar problems and it took absolutely ages to work through them. In his case it was a mental thing (as in 'in his head' rather than 'bonkers', though come to think of it .... ). His job is I think the most stoopidly stressy thing a chap could do, or least top 5, and it kills the libido as certainly as bucketfuls of bromide in the morning tea. And yes - the emotions AAAARGH!!!!! I could talk at some length about all this and you are welcome to PM me if it'd help.

Aries darling I am sorry. CLEARLY getting a duffle this (coming) month will be even more inconvenient. Timing couldn't be worse...

aubergine we have the sane challenge, DH has been depressed and his libido.has been shot. I don't tell him when I'm.fertile, just try to lure him to bed! (With varying success!)
I'm either already pregnant or going to.be after today (FF seems a tad confused). Certain we've cracked cos it's got to.be an.ironic bfp before my fertility clinic appointment in July!

Ahh you're never alone with Mumsnet eh.

Sorry to hear others have had to deal with this extra hurdle too, but also comforted to know I'm in good company.

Fingers crossed for tonight.

Aries - good thinking making this a practice month. That way you will know what you're doing and next month is a foregone conclusion. Brilliant work!

PS - there is a classic Timing Couldn't Be Worse thread in AIBU at the mo

@ The sane challenge.

Oh, yes, had forgotten about that. If it works this coming month....well, Timing Couldn't Be Worse Really. I shall get that printed on a T shirt and when people ask what it means, I shall smile in an enigmatic fashion.

Aubergine - I just had to come out of my negative lurking in solidarity about having a partner who gets 'stage fright'.

It's an absolute pain in the backside, but I've found the ONLY think that helps at all is to act completely and utterly blasé about the whole thing.

When the pressure's off, he's better. I DO tell him roughly when the fertile window is, largely so that he can avoid wanking (sorry TMI). That helps.

Also, he's much less successful when he's had a drink and about 10 times more successful when hungover. So I can work around that a bit!

The awful thing is that I spend a lot of time manipulating the situ so that the "emotions and complicated feelings" are not a problem. But needs must!!!

It's funny, I didn't think many others had this problem as you see lots of people saying they're at it every day while they're fertile. I just think - HOW? My DH would be happy to do it every day, but god knows what the strike rate would be like

See, you plod along assuming everyone else's husband is delighted about all the extra sex, and positively gagging to have another go any time you say so. Or at the very least easily persuaded. And managing 3 times a day when the Stupid Weeing Stick (tm) grins suggestively and waggles its eyebrows.

And then it turns out that plenty of people have been in your boat. This is why I love Mumsnet.

Interesting that a hangover helps. Unfortunately morning sex is but a pipe dream round our gaff as our children get up at 5am and assume their rightful positions in the middle of the marital bed.

And yesssss... manipulating the situation. Knowing when we really ought to be shagging. Casually ensuring there's not too much socialising going on (so as to avoid that perennial turn-on "oi, fella, 2 beers tops and then home for sexing"). Casually happening to make sure the kids are in bed early. Casually suggesting an early night. Gently waking him up when he falls asleep on the sofa "because he'll be more comfortable in bed". All this when tbh I'd quite like to fall asleep with my book on my face too And it doesn't always happen with all my planning (and I'm cool and groovy about that too - "no worries, there's always tonight" when actually I am screaming in my head that I JUST WANT TO BE BLOODY BLOODY BLOODY PREGNANT. If I waited for the stars to align we'd never make it.

FFS girls I go away for a week & on my return was expecting to find a rash of differs. I haven't bothered with taking my temperature this month as am obviously with child already ( nothing at all to do with being on holiday & drinking wine. Oh no. Not me as drinking whilst TTC is terrible along with carrying a cake)

Anyway sorry to hear about those pesky periods but am pretty sure a practice run was all that was needed.

Aries perhaps you could start marketing timing couldn't be worse T shirts?

Ok, plan B. Have you thought about a wank pot and a turkey baster?

But seriously, we can't do morning sex either, he just has to wait until after kids' bed time with the horn. Tough luck buster.

Re falling asleep on sofa, well frankly I try to make sure it's done and dusted by that time tbh. Can't bear to having hanging over me all evening.

Who said romance is dead?