Let's make some May babies

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The end of July is drawing near; SWI with DP hasn't been as frequent as hoped; and I've decided to err on the side of caution.

So. Here's a thread for anyone else hoping to make a beautiful May 2012 baby.

I am 27 and TTC #1. Been on pill for an age so unsure of cycles. Only been trying for a couple of weeks - the more I type the more I note my wild optimism!!

Anyone else who knows more about this business than I do? Please come and give me some hope that a May baby might be at all possible :)

Thanks Puzzle - I can be quite irregular so I was hoping the sticks would have helped somewhat; i am charting in other ways as well so just going to have a lot of SWI and pray that I actually ov this cycle - already tired of TTC and we've only been at it 3 months! I am also using Pre-Seed so hoping that it will help as well!!

Hi everyone. Lots to catch up on here.

Firstly congratulations Kveta. Great news!

And commiserations desperateoldie67 sorry you're out this month.

I think I'm going to be out too. All the metallic taste and dicky tummy etc have gone, I think they were down to the conception vitamins. All I'm feeling now are PMT symptoms, pinchy boobs and stomach cramps. Like you Kinky when I had DS I knew I was pregnant, this time I'm trying to convince myself, but at the same time trying not to get my hopes up.

I've already worked out that DH and I will struggle to SWI in the next two months because DH will be away. We'll have to try and get some in before he leaves. And the absolute worst thing is I'm going camping for 4 days on Monday so if AF arrives that day I'll have my sodding period from start to finish [miserable]

Thanks for the commiserations ladies...you're all amazing [kisses]

Good luck to all those yet to POAS - don't do it too early, it'll only stress you out more (she says, sagely)

See all those that strike out on the June bus hopefully...it's already quite cheery on there...nice decs, food, booze :)

I'm not letting this get me down, even though my age is most definitely against me. It's my 44th birthday this coming month, and I'm going to be shagging for England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales and any other country that pops into my head at the time - god help Mr Desperate! :o

That's the spirit desperate. I'm going to go out for a run now and jolly well try and cheer up.

Now I'm feeling REALLY depressed (and desperate - boom boom tsh!). I used to be a runner before double knee surgery for shitty cartilage :(

Enjoy your run for me Quenelle :)

HEAVE.

Has mostly been what I've been doing this morning. Egads, that was not pleasant. But I can't decide whether or not it was just my body messing me around cos I'd been thinking about morning sickness on the way to work. Feeling better having been sipping mint tea for a while, happily.

No other symptoms. CM can't decide whether it's sticky or creamy. Feeling bloaty again and a bit crampy. Husband also thinks the boobage is feeling weird (ah, the advantages of him being not a leg man - he knows them better than I do...) "not as firm as normal; a bit like risen pizza dough before knocking it back" (thanks, love). They don't ache or anything, but they never do anyway.

I am 9DPO and I have a full blown obsession. And this is only cycle 1! Waah!

Hey guys, checking in, hope everyone's well!

Thought I'd add myself to the bottom of the list and get down to some serious SWI!!

---Results are in -
MammaInTheMaking(26) TTC? AF due 4th August - BFP
Threecurranntbuns TTC#4 AF due 14th Aug - FBP
POAS - & Just Waiting Crew- -
Festiemum 37 TTC #4 AF due 18th August
AstroNess 28 TTC #1 AF due 19th Aug ish
Missuswife (31) TTC#1 AF due 20 Aug
Desperateoldie67 (43 - double eek!) - TTC#1 AF due 22nd August
Orangehead (33) TTC #3 AF due 24th Aug
LadyGrace (29) TTC #1 AF due 24th Aug(ish)
Pillow (28) TTC #1 AF due 24th Aug
KinkyDorito (32) TTC #3 AF due 24th Aug
Harryan (30) TCC #3 AF due 25th Aug
7 days + till testing -COME ON !!!!!!!-
Buggerlugs82 (28) TTC#1 AF due 26th Aug (ish)
Cosmic Mouse (28) TTC#2 AF due 26th Aug ish ( BFP) YEHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!
Kduke748 (32) TTC#2 AF due 26th Aug (ish)
Mama5isalive (35)#DC3 AF due 27th Aug!!!!!!!!!!!grin
TartyMcFarty 34 ttc #2 AF due 27th August
Mildertduck 28 TTC #1 AF due 28th August (ish)
Quenelle (42) (eek!) TTC #2 (DS Jun 09) AF due 29 Aug
Mrsshears (32)TTC3 AF due 29th Aug( welcome)
MuckyHighChair (24) TTC #2 AF due 31 Aug
Tibbycat (30) TTC #1 AF due 31st Aug
Puzzletree (34) TTC#3 AF due end of Aug
Kveta 29 TTC #2 (DC1 Sep 09) AF due around end of Aug(FBP)
-September aint that far either
Pinkapples (23) ttc1 CD15 AF due 1st sept ish
NotNowImReading (34) TTC#1, AF due 1 Sept
Piglet28 (29) TTC#2 AF due 1 Sept
HorseyGirl (39) TTC#1) AF due 1 Sept
Minshu 36 TTC#2 AF due 3rd September (ish)
Bradderswantsababy 29 ttc#1 AF due 3rd Sept
Tipp2chicago 31 TTC#1 AF due 4th September
Catsycat 38 (Joining Quenelle in an eek!) ttc #3 AF due 8th September (ish)
HeidiHole TTC#1 (25) AF due 9th Sept
GTR2882 (29) TTC#1 AF due 10th Sept(ish)
MoominGirl TTC#1 (31) AF due 11th Sept
Rusulka (30) TTC#1 AF due 11th September ermmmmmmm??????????????
mskatemc (35) TTC#1 AF due 12th September
Sassymk (27) TTC#2 AF due 16th Sept (allegedly!!)
Sn0wgoose (27)TTC1 AF due 16th Sept ( welcome)
ChocolateWindmill (24) TTC#1 AF due 16th/17th September

-- waiting for a sign, any sign -
Clandy (23) TTC #2 AF due ?
Louloubella 27 TTC #1 AF due ?? (soon pleeease)
JoInScotland 38 TTC #2 (DS Jan 10) AF due ??
Lindsell29 ttc#2 no idea on AF as never have it when on pill! grin
Cacacaz ttc#1 no idea as been on the pil for the past 9 years!
RIBS(37)TTC2 AF - 22nd - 12 Sept ????? vague dates!

mildertduck - Same boat here - cycle 1, going a bit barmy! I keep having potential symptoms, that could potentially be other things. Bloaty and crampy too, also have undecisive CM, and periodic feeling sick.

Probably overthinking everything - wish there were a way to switching this bit of my brain off so I could concentrate on some other things!

I am ashamed to admit that I have just googled '9dpo knee pain'. WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK SELF. YOU ARE NOT PREGNANT IN YOUR KNEES.

(my knees always hurt when I feel or have been sick. I spent a miserable weekend in the throes of norovirus with a pillow wedged between my knees because they were so achy)

Agh. I once spent a weekend etc - this was a couple of years ago!

LOL!!! milder you have just made me laugh out loud! Thanks for that, because I'm having an utterly crappy day :o

..."what the actual fuck self..." bwahahahaha :o

mildertduck

My bbt is climbing like a wheezy old lady going up the stairs. At CD9 I assume this is just my body thinking about ovulating in a really sarcastic way- either that, or I've been measuring it wrong... have decided to go with sticking it in my mouth this cycle- I know it's more accurate to stick it up my hoo-ha, but I couldn't bring myself to do that days 1-5.

I have terrible mackerel burps after getting in an oily fish frenzy, now I wish I'd just had yoghurt for lunch.
It's freezing in the house and I can't have a cuppa because I'm depriving myself for the OPK. Wah... Oh sod it, I'll do it now.

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Nothing doing. Incidentally, is anyone doing that trick of when they think they see a line, looking at the space next to where they think the line is? It's a good way of checking whether you're seeing something or not. (Well, it is for me, anyway).
I see all sorts of things when I look directly at something like faces in the artex on the ceiling which generally aren't there, so if I look at a stick and still see a line with my peripheral vision when I'm looking next to it not at it, then I know I'm not going mad.

Having seen these faint lines on my OPK sticks, I'm now starting to wonder whether I ever actually did see a line last month. I thought I did once, but now I've seen that these lines are actually pinky coloured, I'm just starting to think maybe I made a whole song and dance over nothing. (blush)

Hi all, I'm back!

Wow! So much to catch up with; I have tried to be a good girl and read it all. Glad we've had some more BFPs and sorry for those of you got by the witchy bitch.....

I am slightly confused (nothing new there then!) Had a good wedding and festie, but threw up on me wedding night, so did an internet cheapie test the next day - BFN. Then bought some tests from the nearest supermarket (turned out to be Sainsburys, and read ALL SORTS of bad things about their tests since - bah!) Got two very faint positives during the festival, and wanted to sleep A LOT! Also found festival toilets particularly challenging smell-wise. AF hasn't shown (now 3-4 days late), but did another internet cheapie test this morning and got BFN. Think I may have had a dodgy batch of ICs? Always found them to be good in the past.

Anyway, opened a bad banana for DD today, and that sent me runnning to the sink retching...... Spose I will have to go and get some more tests and try again.... Some kind of definitive answer would be good really!

Rusulka - I don't think I ever got a particularly good line when I did OPKs - but I was using ICs.... Think I'm going off the whole IC idea!!!

Lol hoo-ha!! that tickled me up! My OPKs are as pale as pale can be and I actually dont think I'll ov ever again! Slightly melodramatic but that's just how I feel at the moment and I keep seeing either pregnant ladies or babies everywhere I turn! :(

I actually read somewhere that you should try to test with OPKs more than once a day as one woman almost missed her surge that lasted 20.5 hours and if she hadn't checked 3 times she would have missed it! So I'm going to drink until 8 and then check again at 10!!!

Ok I'm done!! :)

I know what you mean, GTR, I'm seeing pregnant women and babies and delightful small children EVERYWHERE... and none of them are mine, WAH!

Bluewater is especially bad for that kind of thing. Prams and buggies everywhere.

Don't get me wrong, I may only be testing with my ovulation sticks once a day, but I'm prepared- we're having SWI anyway, in case (not wasting the sexy hoo-ha). Last time we were at it CD10-14 and 16, and AF was nearly a week late, so my body must have been at least thinking about implantation... either that or I completely misread the situation. Starting to wonder if what I thought were implantation cramps from CD17-19 were actually me ovulating, although I did the OPK sticks on days 15 and 16, and nothing. Crazy body!

Rusulka, I know what you mean about the hoo-ha! Have been doing oral temp for the same reason, but my temps have been up and down all over the place and since it's my first month charting I haven't got any basis for comparison.

OPKs are also not shedding much light, but it's only CD11 (am hoping I don't have to do them 3 times a day tho )

Got my fingers crossed for all of you in the 2ww!

Warning - self important pity post

Not sure if I'm in or out... I'm certainly not as confidently on the bus as I'd like to be

SWI cd 7 cd 9 cd 11 cd 13 and then tried last night on cd 14 but DH couldn't keep an erection. Never ever happened before. He mumbled something about the pressure (I suppose I have might have been a bit unromantically demanding in that I obviously set a timetable (verbal) of nights we were trying)

He then said we would try tomorrow (which is now today) and went to sleep

Then tonight he sneaked off at 9pm and I went to look for him and found him fast asleep in bed without saying anything. :( currently lying in bed with iPad a bit pissed off and un fertilised

So no sex after cd 13 which isn't ideal!!

We will see I suppose :( just wanted to feel we had given it best shot. He's the one who is keenest for a bloody baby!

Was reviewing thread and reading funny bits to DH tonight, suspect if we manage to get updiffed he will be conducting much sniffage as he very badly wants to be a wizard too.

Boys...

Mildertduck Risen pizza dough?! That actually did make me laugh out loud! And I do like the sound of sarcastic ovulation Rusalka.

My bbt spiked this morning but it's a bit early...I'll actually be excited to wake up early tomorrow to see if the trend has continued. Luckily DP and I dtd yesterday and two days before that so at least we haven't buggered up the timing like we did the first month we tried.

Festie, I don't know how regular AF is for you, but at 5 days past her expected arrival and no sign, I reckon you are definitely in with a chance! Which would be a very nice wedding present :)

heidi I know how you feel,dh has done this to me a couple of times now.
On a positive note my gp told me that every 2-3 days is best when ttc so going by this you could still have swi tomorrow

Poor you Heidihole!

He's obviously needing a rest. Don't forget sperm are supposed to be better equipped for action after a couple of days rest, and they can quite happily float around up your hoo-ha for a few days waiting for eggs.

(I'm secretly worried that we didn't manage it last cycle because I bonked him rotten 5 days in a row, and by the time the worn out sperm got to my egg they just fainted)

Massively jealous of your iPad Chin up, all will be ok.

Have pee'd on my OPK stick for the third time as promised and............. I am none the wiser!! Definitely looks more positive than negative so am gonna err on the side of caution and SWI like never before! Poor DH won't know what's hit him, but I am determined

And after reading all your posts and letting DH rest tonight, I am hoping that the little fellas are well rested and ready for action!!!!

Arrrrgh! AF has come aknocking ... off to the june yacht i guess

congrats to all the BPFs... chocolate for the BFNs and good luck to all those who don't know what the f is going on

x